Coursebook in Feature GeometryPresentación del editor: The Coursebook in Feature Geometry is an undergraduate course introducing students to current phonology through a sustained use of the Feature Geometry framework. It is written as a coherent, accessible, and well-illustrated introduction to the key ideas of Feature Geometry, focusing on rules of assimilation. In its 20 units and 40 exercises, it takes the reader step-by-step through the representational devices of Feature Geometry. The Coursebook attempts to present the core ideas of Feature Geometry in a unified way, rather than attempting to incorporate the (considerable) debate concerning almost every aspect of the theory. The version of Feature Geometry underlying the Coursebook is basically that found in Sagey's The Representation of features in non-linear phonology (1990), revised in accordance with the claims of Lahiri and Evans' 1991 article on Palatalization and coronality. |
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additional affricate alternation alveolar appear assimilation associated basic become beginning called central changes complex Consider consonant consonantal containing continuant Coronal course definition deleted dental Describe detail discussed distinctive features distinguish distributed Dorsal English evidence example EXERCISES expressed facts Feature Geometry FG diagram flow forms fricatives front vowels function geometry German glides happens important indicate involved Labial language Laryngeal lateral Linguistics lips lowered means mouth nasal stops natural node Note obstruent oral stops palatal phonemes phonological Place node place of articulation position possible preceding prefix present properties refer representation represented Root Root node round rule second segment segment separate sequence shown single soft palate sometimes sonorant sounds specifications stem strident suffix Supra syllable symbols terminal features tone tongue underlying UNIT velar verb vocal voiced voiceless vowel word-final written