Segmental Structure and Complex Segments.

Intro -- Introduction -- Ch. 1 Vowel place elements -- 1. The basic vowels -- 1.1 Brazilian Portuguese -- 1.2 The neutralisation of vowel contrasts -- 1.3 Other languages: segment inventories -- 1.3.1 Turkish vowel harmony -- 1.3.2 Morphological considerations -- 1.3.3 Vowel systems -- 1.3.4 Patterns in vowel inventories -- 1.4 Other considerations -- 2. Processes -- 3. More mid vowels and additional height contrasts -- 4. Notation -- 5. Conclusion -- Ch. 2 Consonant place elements -- 1. Consonant places of articulation: I, A and U -- 1.1 Segment inventories -- 1.2 Other considerations -- 2. Consonant-vowel interactions -- 2.1 Interactions involving the element U -- 2.1.1 Rounding of vowels before or after labial consonants -- 2.1.2 Labialisation of consonants before or after rounded vowels -- 2.1.3 Other evidence -- 2.2 Interactions involving the element I -- 2.2.1 Fronting of vowels before or after coronal consonants -- 2.2.2 Coronalisation of consonants before or after front vowels -- 2.2.3 Other evidence -- 2.3 Interactions involving the element A -- 2.3.1 Lowering and/or backing of vowels before or after velar consonants -- 2.3.2 Dorsalization of consonants before or after back vowels -- 2.3.3 Other evidence -- 2.3.4 Discussion -- 3. Conclusion -- Ch. 3 Complex segments and phonological complexity -- 1. Complex segments pre-theoretically -- 2. Phonological complexity -- 2.1 Assumptions -- 2.2 Complex segments from a theoretical perspective -- 2.2.1 Colour mixing -- 2.2.2 Multiple stricture -- 2.2.3 Two-rootedness -- 3. Conclusion -- Ch. 4 Head-dependent asymmetries at the segmental level -- 1. The mismatch condition in metrical and segmental phonology -- 1.1 Combining two-rootedness and colour mixing -- 1.1.1 Consonants with secondary articulation -- 1.1.2 Short diphthongs -- 1.2 Combining two-rootedness and multiple stricture.

1.3 Combining colour mixing and multiple stricture -- 2. Combining all three types of complexity -- 3. Conclusion -- Ch. 5 Maimer primitives -- 1. Manner -- 2. Simple segments and natural classes -- 2.1 Simple segments -- 2.2 Natural classes -- 3. Complex segments: multiple stricture -- 4. Complex segment results -- 5. Conclusion -- Ch. 6 Colour mixing in consonants -- 1. Combining the elements -- 1.1 Combining identical elements -- 1.1.1 Bilabial vs. labiodental -- 1.1.2 Dental vs. alveolar -- 1.1.3 Pharyngeal vs. velar -- 1.2 Combining different elements -- 1.2.1 Labial-velars -- 1.2.2 Labial-coronals -- 2. Coronal places of articulation -- 3. Uvulars -- 3.1 Velars and uvulars form a natural class -- 3.2 Uvulars have secondary velarisation -- 4. Conclusion -- Ch. 7 Affricates -- 1. Spreading [acont] and the Manner-Place dependency in affricates -- 1.1 Empirical issues -- 1.2 The Manner-Place dependency in affricates -- 2. Evidence -- 2.1 Affricates as single segments -- 2.2 Segment inventories -- 2.2.1 Secondary articulation -- 2.2.2 Place of articulation in fricatives and affricates -- 2.3 Ordering of [stop] and [cont] in affricates -- 3. Basque -- 3.1 Preliminaries -- 3.1.1 Affricates as single segments -- 3.1.2 Two monovalent features [stop] and [cont] -- 3.1.3 The Manner-Place dependency in Basque affricates -- 3.2 Processes and constraints in Basque -- 3.2.1 Stop Deletion -- 3.2.2 Glottal Stop Formation and Aspiration -- 3.2.3 Sibilant Harmony -- 3.2.4 Fricativisation -- 3.2.5 Voice Assimilation -- 3.2.6 Palatalisation -- 3.3 Summary concerning Basque -- 4. Conclusion -- Ch. 8 Prenasalised stops -- 1. Prenasalised stops: three predictions -- 1.1 Prenasalised stops as unit segments -- 1.2 Ordering -- 1.2.1 Ngbaka -- 1.2.2 The Ganda Law and other rules -- 1.3 Place attached to [stop] only -- 2. Alternative representations of prenasalised stops.

2.1 Prenasalised stops as contour segments -- 2.2 Prenasalised stops as two-root complex segments -- 3. Conclusion -- Ch. 9 /s/ plus stop clusters -- 1. Syllabification -- 2. Phonological rules and constraints -- 2.1 Reduplication -- 2.2 Partial geminates -- 2.3 Other evidence -- 3. Ordering -- 4. Conclusion -- Ch. 10 Two-root complex segments -- 1. Two consonants under one x-slot -- 1.1 Clicks -- 1.2 Labial-coronals -- 1.3 Postnasalised stops -- 2. Two vowels under one x-slot: short diphthongs -- 3. A vowel and a consonant under one x-slot -- 3.1 Consonants with secondary articulation -- 3.2 Vowels with consonantal properties -- 4. Conclusion -- References.

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