Headhood, Elements, Specification, and Contrastivity : Phonological Papers in Honor of John Anderson

by Carr, Philip; Durand, Jacques; Ewen, Colin J.

• ISBN13: 9781588116178
• ISBN10: 1588116174
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-15
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

John M. Anderson: A Brief Profile of the Man and his Career in Linguistics	vii
Jacques Durand
John M. Anderson: Publications 1968-2004	xv
List of Contributors	xxvii
Introduction: The Structure of Phonological Representations	1	(14)
Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen
Salience, Headhood and Analogies	15	(16)
Philip Carr
Old English I-Umlaut: A Unitary Sound Change? Dependency, Contrast and Non-Specification	31	(32)
Fran Colman
Old English Breaking and Syllable Structure	63	(14)
Mike Davenport
Tense/Lax, the Vowel System of English and Phonological Theory	77	(22)
Jacques Durand
Headedness and Defective Distributions in Polish	99	(20)
Edmund Gussmann
Vowel Reduction as Information Loss	119	(14)
John Harris
Tone and Dependency in Yoruba	133	(34)
Phil Harrison
Sharing Makes Us Stronger: Process Inhibition and Segmental Structure	167	(26)
Patrick Honeybone
The Molecular Structure of Phonological Segments	193	(42)
Harry van der Hulst
Representation and the Role of Underspecification in Declarative Phonology	235	(20)
Ken Lodge
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose	255	(22)
April McMahon
How a Phonological Theory of Headedness Can Account for Strong vs. Weak Phonetic Alternants	277	(36)
Nancy A. Ritter
The Aperture Particle |a|: Its Role and Functions	313	(26)
Sanford Schane
Towards a taw-Based Phonological Representation of Place	339	(30)
Jørgen Staun
References	369	(24)
Language Index	393	(2)
Name Index	395	(6)
Subject Index	401