Principles of Dependency Phonology (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

JohnAndersonandColinEwen,twoofthemostnotableexponentsof'dependencyphonology',presentinthisbookadetailedaccountofthisintegratedmodelfortherepresentationalofsegmentalandsuprasegmentalstructureinphonology.Dependencyphonologydepartsfromtraditional'linear'modelsofphonology,andthemorerecentnon-linearmodelsofautosegmentalandmetricalphonology,inseveralrespects.Unlikeinthesemodels,suprasegmentalstructureisderiveddirectlyfromthesegmentalrepresentations,andtheserepresentationsarebasedonsingle-valuedfeatures,orcomponents(ratherthanChomskyandHalle-typebinaryfeatures),linkedbythedependencyrelationtoformsuprasegmentalstructures,withtheexactnatureofthedependencyrelationsbeingdirectlydeterminedbythepropertiesofthesegmentalstructure.Phonologyiscurrentlynoteworthyforthediversityofviewswithinthediscipline,butnolinguistorphoneticianwithaseriousinterestinphonologycanaffordtoignorethisbookorfailtobeinterestedbyit.