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Phonological underspecification and speech motor organisation*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

Suzanne E. Boyce
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rena A. Krakow
Affiliation:
Temple University and Haskins Laboratories
Fredericka Bell-Berti
Affiliation:
St John's University and Haskins Laboratories

Extract

Over the last few years, much work in phonology has been devoted to exploring the way features are specified for segments; in particular, to what extent feature specification may be underlyingly present and/or acquired by rule or default in the course of a derivation. While a number of proposals have been made attributing various degrees of underspecification to abstract levels of the phonology (Kiparsky 1985; Steriade 1987; Archangeli 1988), it has been generally assumed that where phonetic implementation comes into play, i.e. at the end of the derivation, segments are exhaustively specified.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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