Magyar Fonetikai Füzetek 24. - Tamás Szende: Phonological Representation and Lenition Processes (1992)

1. Theoretical approaches to word-level phonological representation in post-SPE frameworks - 1.6. Dependency Phonology

tendency (b) has a more important role, (v) Alternations tend to involve the 'loosely programmed' portions of strings in the sense that they affect word edges less than segments flanking an internal morpheme boundary; thus, stem initial phonemes in Hungarian do not participate in any alternation, whereas stem final and suffix initial phonemes often do. (A more thorough discussion of items (iii—v) will not be provided here as they are beyond the scope of the present study.) 1.6. Dependency Phonology A number of current phonological innovations refuse to put on the meth­odological straightjacket of criticizing and trying to improve on the stand­ard SPE framework. A sign of this new approach is that suprasegmental phono­logical devices are now taken to be part and parcel of sequence construction such that a sequence of segments simply cannot be produced without them (cf. 1.4). With the emergence of non-linear phonologies the discipline has under­gone radical changes such that (i) the syllable has been (re)introduced into phonological theory ('Syllabic Phonology'); prominence and pitch relations have been extracted from segmental representation, the latter in a "pre-de­­fined" form as extremes of a scalar pattern ('Autosegmental Phonology'); or syllables and tonal/prominence features have both been invoked ('Metrical Phonology', 'CV Phonology', 'Dependency Phonology'). Secondly, (ii) differ­ent and/or additional structural properties, constant and variable, have en­tered into the characterization of segments or systems of segments ('Parti­cle Phonology', 'Autosegmental Phonology', 'Dependency Phonology'). The new approach focuses on the hierarchy of constituents, with special emphasis on internal dependency relations of that hierarchy. In particular analyses, dependency is a crucial notion in terms of principle and methodol­ogy, and indeed one of the frameworks has just this word as a designation. Dependency Phonology attempts to account for everything that a multifactor surface form may, or rather must, contain. Anderson and Durand's (1986) sur­vey presents linguistic forms as aggregates of a number of levels that are interconnected by dependency relations. In addition, similar dependency re­lations characterize each level in itself, and their relevance is in accord­ance with what is called the 'structural analogy' assumption. This assump­

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