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Part 1 Introduction: scope of this book; from classical phonemics togenerative phonology; phonemes or features?; levels of representation;aspects of a standard generative analysis of Midi French; phonology withinthe model of grammar. Part 2 The theory of distinctive features: some generalassumptions; the phonetic features and their articulatory correlates;universalism revisited; the acoustic/auditory basis of DFs; invariance anddistinctive features. Part 3 Binarism, full and partial specification,markedness and gestures: binarism; multivalued features; contrastivity,archiphonemes and redundancy rules; markedness theory; gestures. Part 4 Thederivational issue - aspects of the abstractness-concreteness debate: aspectsof the segmental phonology of English; objections to the vowel shift andvelar softening; natural generative phonology (NGP); in defence of the vowelshift. Part 5 Underspecification theory and lexical phonology:underspecification theory (UT); Yawelmani vowels and underspecification;lexical phonology. Part 6 Metrical structures: syllable structure; stress andprominence. Part 7 Autosegmental and multidimensional phonology: tone in theSPE framework; the skeletal tier; further geometrical extensions; universalphonology and the "no rule" approach. Part 8 An outline of dependencyphonology: suprasegmental representations; infrasegmental representations;back unrounded vowels. Appendix: phonetic symbols.