Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Autosegmental phonology . A. History. The secret history of prosodic and autosegmental phonology / John Coleman
  • A brief history of autosegmental phonology with special reference to its founder / William R. Leben
  • B.applications to tone. The autosegmental approach to tone in Lusoga / Larry M. Hyman
  • Tonal melodies in the Logoori verb / David Odden
  • C. Extensions of the theory. Autosegments are not just features / D. Robert Ladd
  • The importance of autosegmental representations for sign language phonology / Diane Brentari
  • Abstract underlying representations in prosodic structure / Bert Vaux and Bridget D. Samuels
  • Sonority waves in syllabification / Caroline Wiltshire
  • Toward progress in theories of language sound structure / Mark Liberman
  • Part II: Computation and unsupervised learning. On the discovery procedure / Jackson L. Lee
  • Model selection and phonological argumentation / James Kirby and Morgan Sonderegger
  • The dynamics of prominence profiles: from local computation to global patterns / Khalil Iskarous and Louis Goldstein
  • French liaison in the light of corpus phonology: from lexical information to patterns of usage variation / Bernard Laks, Basilio Calderone, and Chiara Celata
  • A phonological approach to the unsupervised learning of root-and-pattern morphology / Aris Xanthos.