Table of Contents

1. Introduction: themes in phonology Paul de Lacy; Part I. Conceptual Issues: 2. In pursuit of theory Alan Prince; 3. Functionalism Matthew Gordon; 4. Markedness Keren Rice; 5. Derivations and levels of representation John J. McCarthy; 6. Representation John Harris; 7. Contrast Donca Steriade; Part II. Prosody: 8. The syllable Draga Zec; 9. Feet and metrical stress René Kager; 10. Tone Moira Yip; 11. The phonology of intonation Carlos Gussenhoven; 12. The interaction of tone, sonority and prosody Paul de Lacy; Part III. Subsegmental Features: 13. Segmental features Tracy Alan Hall; 14. Local assimilation and constraint interaction Eric Bakovic; 15. Harmony Diana Archangeli and Douglas Pulleybank; 16. Dissimilation in grammar and the lexicon John Alderete and Stefan Frisch; Part IV. Internal Interfaces: 17. The phonetics-phonology interface John Kingston; 18. The syntax-phonology interface Hubert Truckenbrodt; 19. Morpheme position Adam Ussishkin; 20. Reduplication Suzanne Urbanczyk; Part V. External Interfaces: 21. Diachronic phonology Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero; 22. Variation and optionality Arto Anttila; 23. Acquiring phonology Paula Fikkert; 24. Learnability Bruce Tesar; 25. Phonological impairment in children and adults Barbara Bernhardt and Joseph Stemberger.

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Paul de Lacy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University.