Decomposition and recursive structure: Glide formation and vowel lowering in East Asian languages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Contributors VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Recursion in melodic-prosodic structure 11
6. A theory of the theory of vowels 37
7. On some deep structural analogies between syntax and phonology 57
8. Decomposition and recursive structure: Glide formation and vowel lowering in East Asian languages 117
9. Multi-layered recursive representations for depressors 143
10. Embedding of the same type in phonology 181
11. Velar softening without precedence relations 207
12. Recursion and GP 2.0 237
13. Head, dependent, or both: Dependency relations in vowels 267
14. Defining recursive entities in phonology: The Onset Prominence framework 307
15. Obstruent liquid clusters: Locality, projections and percolation 329
16. Recursive strong assignment from phonology to syntax 383
17. Language Index 409
18. Subject Index 411