Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. John M. Anderson: A Brief Profile of the Man and his Career in Linguistics vii
4. John M. Anderson: Publications, 1968–2004 xv
5. List of contributors xxvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Salience, Headhood and Analogies 15
8. Old English I -Umlaut: A Unitary Sound Change? 31
9. Old English Breaking and Syllable Structure 63
10. Tense/Lax, the Vowel System of English and Phonological Theory 77
11. Headedness and Defective Distributions in Polish 99
12. Vowel Reduction as Information Loss 119
13. Tones and Dependency in Yorùbá 133
14. Sharing Makes us Stronger 167
15. The Molecular Structure of Phonological Segments 193
16. Representation and the Role of Underspecification in Declarative Phonology 235
17. Heads I Win, Tails You Lose 255
18. How a Phonological Theory of Headedness can Account for Strong vs . Weak Phonetic Alternants 277
19. The Aperture Particle ¦a¦ 313
20. Towards a taw -based Phonological Representation of Place 339
21. References 369
22. Index 393