1. Introduction: the relative absence of modularity in interface thinking

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents – overview vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One – Morpho-syntactic information in phonology: a survey since Trubetzkoy's Grenzsignale
5. 1. The spectrum: what morpho-syntactic information can do to phonology 35
6. 2. Trubetzkoy's Grenzsignale 39
7. 3. American structuralism: juncture phonemes 43
8. 4. Chomsky, Halle & Lukoff (1956) 59
9. 5. SPE sets the standards for 40 years 67
10. 6. The life of boundaries in post-SPE times 93
11. 7. Lexical Phonology 123
12. 8. Halle & Vergnaud (1987a): selective spell-out and SPE-restoration 185
13. 9. Kaye (1995): selective spell-out and modification-inhibiting no look-back 219
14. 10. Prosodic Phonology: on the representational side 301
15. 11. Optimality Theory 385
16. 12. Distributed Morphology 447
17. Interlude – Modularity
18. 1. Introduction: the relative absence of modularity in interface thinking 497
19. 2. Modularity and connectionism, mind and brain 499
20. 3. The modular architecture of the mind: where it comes from 515
21. 4. The modular architecture of the mind: how it works 519
22. 5. Modularity of and in language, related systems 535
23. 6. How modules communicate 557
24. Part Two – Lessons from interface theories
25. 1. A guide to the interface jungle 563
26. 2. Empirical generalisations 565
27. 3. Issues that are settled 573
28. 4. Modularity, translation, the diacritic issue and local vs. domain-based intervention: settled in verb, but not in fact 589
29. 5. Open questions (general) 609
30. 6. Open questions (procedural) 647
31. Conclusion – Intermodular argumentation 705
32. Backmatter 717