Introduction
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Harry van der Hulst
Abstract
The present theme issue contains four articles that use or discuss the framework of Government Phonology, originally formulated in two seminal articles by Jonathan Kaye, Jean Lowenstamm and Jean-Roger Vergnaud. Government Phonology (GP) has been in the arena of phonological theories since the mid eighties, sharing a number of important characteristics with Dependency Phonology, a model developed by John Anderson and various others, notably Colin Ewen. As explained in van der Hulst's article (where one can find a more detailed discussion and references), both models arose from the desire to abandon or replace aspects of the SPE-model of phonology with alternatives that were claimed to be more restricted in a variety of ways. At the same time, Government Phonology maintained the original mentalistic bias of the generative approach to the language faculty, thus trying to characterize the innate apparatus that children bring to bear on the acquisition of phonology.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction
- Licensing constraints in phonology
- Georgian consonant clusters: The complexity is in the structure, not the melody
- A CVCV template for Turkish
- A Lateral Theory of Phonology, by Tobias Scheer
- Publications received July 2005 – October 2006
- Language index
- Subject index
- Contents of volume 23
Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction
- Licensing constraints in phonology
- Georgian consonant clusters: The complexity is in the structure, not the melody
- A CVCV template for Turkish
- A Lateral Theory of Phonology, by Tobias Scheer
- Publications received July 2005 – October 2006
- Language index
- Subject index
- Contents of volume 23
