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