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Phonology in Generative Grammar is a 1994 book by Michael Kenstowicz in which the author provides an introduction to phonology in the framework of generative grammar.
Michael John Kenstowicz (born August 18, 1945) is an American linguist and professor of linguistics at MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. [2] He is best known for his works on phonetics and phonology. His book Phonology in Generative Grammar is a coursebook taught across the world in phonology courses.
Generative Phonology: Description and Theory is a 1979 book by Michael Kenstowicz and Charles Kisseberth in which the authors provides an introduction to phonology in the framework of generative grammar.
The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology is a 2007 book edited by Paul de Lacy in which the authors deal with different aspects of phonological research in the generative grammar. Michael Kenstowicz, Sabine Zerbian and Jennifer L. Smith have reviewed the book. [1] [2] [3]
Pages in category "Phonology books" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... Phonology in Generative Grammar; Phonology: An Introduction to ...
Kenstowicz (1994) states that "... American English schwa deletes in medial posttonic syllables ...", and gives as examples words such as sep(a)rate (as an adjective), choc(o)late , cam(e)ra and elab(o)rate (as an adjective), where the schwa (represented by the letters in parentheses) has a tendency to be deleted.
It is an approach within the larger framework of generative grammar. Optimality theory has its origin in a talk given by Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky in 1991 [ 1 ] which was later developed in a book manuscript by the same authors in 1993.
In generative grammar and related approaches, the logical form (LF) of a linguistic expression is the variant of its syntactic structure which undergoes semantic interpretation. It is distinguished from phonetic form , the structure which corresponds to a sentence's pronunciation.