GENERATIVE PHONOLOGY A Case-Study from French -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- FINAL SEGMENTS AND GENDER INFLECTION IN FRENCH -- 1. THE DELETION RULES -- 1.1 Liaison as non-deletion -- 1.2 Liaison as metathesis -- 1.3 Liaison as syntax -- 2. EXCEPTIONS TO THE DELETION RULES -- 2.1 There are exceptions to the deletion rules -- 2.2 There are no exceptions to the deletion rules -- 2.3 There are exceptions to the deletion rules -- 3. INVARIANT ADJECTIVES -- 3.1 Vowel-final stems -- 3.2 Consonant-final stems -- 4. THE SCOPE OF THE DELETION RULES -- 4.1 Nasals and nasalisation -- 4.2 Derivational augments and 'secondary derivation'· -- 5. ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS -- 5.1 There is no consonant deletion rule: liaison as epenthesis -- 5.2 There is a (minor) consonant deletion rule -- 6. THE FUNCTIONAL UNITY OF ELISION AND LIAISON -- 6.1 Elision and liaison as natural rules -- 6.2 Elision and liaison as conspiratorial rules -- 7. SUMMARY -- 7.1 Final segments -- 7.2 Gender inflection -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.