Vowel degemination and fast speech rules
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Phonology Yearbook
- Vol. 4 (1) , 61-85
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0952675700000774
Abstract
In the last two years, two very interesting books about the interaction of phonology and syntax, Selkirk (1984a) and Kaisse (1985), have addressed the problem of characterising fast speech processes and made interesting proposals about the status of fast speech rules (FSRs) and their place in the grammar. Essentially, Kaisse's proposal is that fast speech rules belong to a separate subcomponent of the phonology, which is ordered after the sandhi rules subcomponent: while sandhi rules are sensitive to their syntactic environment, fast speech rules have only phonetic motivation. That is, they operate throughout a string, within as well as across words, independently of its structure (cf. also Rotenberg 1978; Hasegawa 1979).Keywords
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