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The archi-segment in natural generative phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Joan B. Hooper
Joan B. Hooper*
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State University of New York at Buffalo
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Abstract

It is argued here that lexical redundancy rules (and all phonotactic constraints) must apply to phonological strings that consist of complete syllables (i.e. to words rather than formatives), and further that there is no significant difference between phonetically motivated phonological rules and lexical redundancy rules. It follows that there are two possible forms of a phonological grammar: either all rules act on lexical entries as they are stored, and they are stored as whole words (of complete syllables); or else lexical items are formatives, and NO phonetically motivated rules apply until formatives are concatenated into larger strings of complete syllables. The latter position, which requires redundancy-free or archi-segmental lexical representations, is adopted, and the consequences for natural generative phonology are discussed.

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Language , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , September 1975 , pp. 536 - 560
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Copyright © 1975 Linguistic Society of America

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