The Theory of Lexical Phonology: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, cartea 6

I: Introduction.- 1.1. The Issues.- 1.2. The Historical Perspective.- 1.3. The Spiral of Progress.- II: An Outline of the Theory: English Phonology.- 2.1. Lexical and Postlexical Rule Applications.- 2.2. Lexical Morphology.- 2.3. The Use of Morphological Information in Phonology.- 2.4. How Many Strata in English?.- 2.5. Rules, Domains, and Stratum Ordering.- 2.6. The Mental Representation of Lexical Entries.- III: Malayalam Phonology: Segmentals.- 3.1. The Lexical Alphabet.- 3.2. The Underlying Alphabet.- 3.3. Syllable Structure in Malayalam.- 3.4. Lexical Strata in Malayalam.- 3.5. Summary.- IV: Malayalam Phonology: Suprasegmentals.- 4.1. The Loop in Malayalam Morphology.- 4.2. Stress and Word Melody.- 4.3. The Domain of Stress and Word Melody.- 4.4. Schwa Insertion and Word Melody.- 4.5. An Ordering Paradox.- 4.6. The Effect of the Loop on Stress and Word Melody.- V: Accessing Morphological Information.- 5.1. Types of Nonphonological Information in Phonology.- 5.2. Boundaries.- 5.3. Domains as Node Labels on Trees.- 5.4. Hierarchical Structure in Morphology Notes.- VI: The Postlexical Module.- 6.1. Syntactic and Postsyntactic Modules.- 6.2. Speech as Implementation of Phonetic Representation.- 6.3. The Nature of Phonetic Representations.- 6.4. Language-Specific Implementational Phenomena.- 6.5. Types of Subsegmental Phenomena.- 6.6. Underlying and Lexical Alphabets.- 6.7. Phonological Structure and Phonetic Implementation.- 6.8. Phonetic Implementation and Classical Phonemics.- VII: Lexical Phonology and Psychological Reality.- 7.1. The Nature of Evidence in Phonology.- 7.2. Speaker Judgments.- 7.3. Phonemic Orthography.- 7.4. Conventions of Sound Patterning in Versification.- Conclusion.- References.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

`This is an impressive, state-of-the-art compilation of the results of much recent work in phonetics and phonology, including M's own original resaerch on English, Malayalam, and other languages.'
S. Harges in Languages, 65:1 (1989)
`Mohanan's book is an important contribution to the literature on Lexical Phonology which must be read and pondered by every student interested in this topic.'
Professor Morris Halle, MIT, Cambridge, USA