This article compares and contrasts cophonology theory and indexed constraint theory, the
dominant current proposals to morphologically conditioned phonology. In cophonology …

A number of phonological laws require adjacent elements to stand a certain distance apart
from each other on some prominence scale. For example, according to the Syllable Contact …

The Tokyo dialect of Japanese exhibits lexical contrasts based on pitch accent; that is, there
are minimal pairs of words that are identical segment-wise, 1 but can be distinguished in …

Speakers learn detailed generalizations about the morphophonology of their language and
extend them to nonce words. We propose a theory of this morphophonological knowledge …

There has been a growing interest in sound symbolic patterns in natural languages, in which
some sounds are associated with particular meanings. Previous corpus-based research …

This article examines the class distinctions, such as Germanic versus Latinate in English,
which occur in virtually all languages. It also takes up some of the conceptual issues …

Affixation and allomorphy are often phonologically predictable: thus, the English indefinite
“a” appears before consonants, and “an” before vowels. We propose a theory of …

It has been well-established in the psycholinguistic literature that word-initial syllables play a
primary role in word recognition processes (Browman, 1978; Brown and MacNeill, 1966; …

This dissertation focuses on two issues in loanword phonology: first, how are loanwords
represented in the lexicons of L1 speakers; and second, how do loanword adaptation …

This volume presents a series of original papers focusing on phonological argumentation,
set within the framework of Optimality Theory. It contains two major sections: chapters about …