Preface -- Phonemic and phonetic symbols -- 1 Introduction -- 1. Cognitive Linguistics -- 2. The language system -- 3. Symbolic units -- 4. The basic organization of grammar -- 5. Construction Grammar -- 6. Morphology -- 7. Compositi onality -- 8. Morphological or word schemas -- 9. Cognitive Phonology -- 10. Summary -- 2 Articulatory phonetics -- 1. How speech sounds are produced -- 2. The consonants -- 2.1. The place of articulation -- 2.2. The manner of articulation -- 2.3. Voicing -- 3. The vowels -- 3.1. Vowel articulation -- 4. Summary -- 3 Sounds and meaning -- 1. Sounds and words -- 2. The phoneme -- 3. Minimal pairs -- 4. Contrastive or overlapping distribution -- 5. Complementary distribution -- 5.1. Allophones versus procedural and schematic knowledge -- 5.2. Basic level and prototypes -- 5.3. Stop allophones -- 5.4. Vowel allophones -- 5.5. Phonetic similarity -- 5.6. Syllabification and allophones -- 5.7. Voicing and voicelessness in allophones -- 6. Free variation -- 7. On the autonomy of phonological units vis-à-vis the symbolic units -- 8. Vocalic differences between the phonetic and phonemic levels -- 9. Phonological features -- 10. Nasalization revisited -- 11. A brief excursion into writing systems -- 12. Summary -- 4 Alternation patterns -- 1. Morphemes and allomorphs -- 2. Morphological schémas or word level constructions -- 3. What is in the lexicon? -- 4. The velar nasal -- 5. Phonotactics -- 6. Morpheme internal 'changes' -- 6.1 Consonant alternations -- 6.2. Velar softening -- 7. The English Laxing -- 8. Allomorphs and stress -- 9. Suppletion -- 10. Sandhi -- 11. Linking -- 12. Dissimilation -- 13. Summary -- 5 Word stress -- 1. What stress is and how it is assigned -- 2. Morpheme types and word stress -- 3. Separable and inseparable prefixes -- 4. Stress pattern and syllable structure.

5. Secondary stress before primary stress -- 6. Morphologically determined stress pattern -- 6.1. Zero derivation -- 6.2. Suffixes that carry primary stress -- 6.3. Suffixes that determine the locus of the primary stress in the stem -- 7. Schema constellations -- 8. Entrenchment -- 9. Compound stress -- 10. Stress shift -- 11. Summary -- 6 Intonation and grammatical constructions -- 1. Propositions, assertions and intentions -- 2. Default contours in grammatical constructions -- 3. Interaction of defaults and non-defaults -- 4. Frequencies of the defaults -- 5. Broad and narrow focus revisited -- 6. Predicate focus and event focus -- 7. Phonological phrasing -- 8. Intonational universals and discourse management -- 9. Summary -- 7 Concluding remarks -- Chapter notes -- References -- Person index -- Subject index.