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The papers in this volume focus on notions which are central to the work of
John M. Anderson the founder of Dependency Phonology and to phonological
theory: the idea of structural analogy between phonology and syntax; the
head/dependent relation; the idea that phonological representations are
best conceived of in terms of a set of privative elements (rather than as
binary-valued features); and the related notions of contrastivity and
specification (and non-specification). An important issue dealt with is the
relationship between specification and derivationality, and the question
whether derivations are necessary in phonological theory. Many of the
contributions provide sound empirical support for the appeal to elements
and to headhood at all levels of phonological analysis. The book will be of
interest to anyone interested in current issues in phonological theory.
Table of contents
John Anderson: Publications, 1968–2004
List of contributors
Introduction
Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen
Salience, Headhood and Analogies
Philip Carr
Old English I-Umlaut: A Unitary Sound Change? Dependency, Contrast and
Non-Specification
Fran Colman
Old English Breaking and Syllable Structure
Mike Davenport
Tense/Lax, the Vowel System of English and Phonological Theory
Jacques Durand
Headedness and Defective Distributions in Polish
Edmund Gussmann
Vowel Reduction as Information Loss
John Harris
Tones and Dependency in Yorùbá
Phil Harrison
Sharing Makes us Stronger: Process Inhibition and Segmental Structure
Patrick Honeybone
The Molecular Structure of Phonological Segments
Harry van der Hulst
Representation and the Role of Underspecification in Declarative Phonology
Ken Lodge
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
April McMahon
How a Phonological Theory of Headedness can Account for Strong vs. Weak
Phonetic Alternants
Nancy A. Ritter
The Aperture Particle ¦a¦: its Role and Functions
Sanford A. Schane
Towards a taw-based Phonological Representation of Place
Jørgen Staun
References
Index
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