The Internal Organization of Phonological Segments.

Intro -- Contents -- Phonological alphabets and the structure of the segment -- Part 1: Features and feature geometry -- Optimal geometries -- Variability in feature affiliations through violable constraints: The case of [lateral] -- The geometry of harmony -- Piro affricates: Phonological edge effects and phonetic anti-edge effects -- On the internal and external organization of sign language segments: some modality-specific properties -- Part 2: Nasality -- On the ambiguous segmental status of nasals in homorganic NC sequences -- Areal and phonotactic distribution of η -- Cryptosonorant phonology in Galice Athabaskan -- Part 3: Laryngeal features -- On the phonological interpretation of aspirated nasals -- The representation of the three-way laryngeal contrast in Korean consonants -- Diachronic evidence in segmental phonology: the case of obstruent laryngeal specifications -- Language index -- Author index -- Subject index.

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

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