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Three queries concerning one thesis concerning phonological representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Nigel Vincent
Nigel Vincent
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Italian Studies Section, University of Lancaster
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The first thesis concerning phonological representations enunciated by Anderson and Jones (henceforth A&J)(1974: 8) is ‘that phonological representations are more highly structured than the standard theory would claim’, where the level of structure with which they are particularly concerned is that of bracketing into syllables. The principles in terms of which this bracketing is assigned are given as (I) (= their (19)):

(I) (a) Medial clusters are composed of a syllable-final preceding a syllable- initial sequence. (b) ‘Precede’ includes overlap where possible.

A couple of points of elucidation are necessary here. First, it should be noted that a previous formulation of (Ia) in the same paper (4) states: ‘We claim that medial clusters are combination of clusters that can be final in monosyllables and clusters that can be initial.’ This reference to word-final and initial clusters must be borne in mind if (Ia) is not to be construed as either circular or trivial.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 1976 , pp. 75 - 82
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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