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Author Love, Nigel.

Title Generative Phonology : a Case Study from French.

Publication Info. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1981.

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
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Contents GENERATIVE PHONOLOGYA Case-Study from French; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; FINAL SEGMENTS AND GENDER INFLECTION IN FRENCH; 1. THE DELETION RULES; 1.1 Liaison as non-deletion; 1.2 Liaison as metathesis; 1.3 Liaison as syntax; 2. EXCEPTIONS TO THE DELETION RULES; 2.1 There are exceptions to the deletion rules; 2.2 There are no exceptions to the deletion rules; 2.3 There are exceptions to the deletion rules; 3. INVARIANT ADJECTIVES; 3.1 Vowel-final stems; 3.2 Consonant-final stems; 4. THE SCOPE OF THE DELETION RULES.
4.1 Nasals and nasalisation4.2 Derivational augments and 'secondary derivation'·; 5. ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS; 5.1 There is no consonant deletion rule: liaison as epenthesis; 5.2 There is a (minor) consonant deletion rule; 6. THE FUNCTIONAL UNITY OF ELISION AND LIAISON; 6.1 Elision and liaison as natural rules; 6.2 Elision and liaison as conspiratorial rules; 7. SUMMARY; 7.1 Final segments; 7.2 Gender inflection; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.
Summary This study is a discussion of, rather than a contribution to, generative phonology. The central question posed, is: Does linguistic theory provide a basis for choosing between competing grammars -- that is, an evaluation procedure for grammars? If so, then what is its form? If not, then how are we to interpret controversies between linguists as to the relative merits of competing grammars? These issues will be discussed in relation to a particular problem of evaluation in the treatment of the morphonology of final segments in Modern French.
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Subject French language -- Phonology.
French language -- Phonology.
French language -- Grammar, Generative.
French language -- Grammar, Generative.
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Other Form: Print version: Love, Nigel. Generative Phonology : A Case Study from French. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©1981 9789027231130
ISBN 9789027280909 (electronic book)
9027280908 (electronic book)
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