Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The rôle of history -- 1.1 Internal and external evidence -- 1.2 Lexical Phonology and its predecessor -- 1.3 Alternative models -- 1.3.1 Rules and constraints -- 1.3.2 Modelling sound changes -- 1.4 The structure of the book -- 2 Constraining the model: current controversies in Lexical Phonology -- 2.1 Lexical Phonology and Morphology: an overview -- 2.1.1 Morphology -- 2.1.2 Phonology -- 2.2 Why constraints? Halle and Mohanan (1985) -- 2.3 Current controversies -- 2.3.1 Lexical and postlexical rules -- 2.3.2 Integration of phonology and morphology -- 2.3.3 Stratification -- 2.3.3.1 Domain assignment -- 2.3.3.2 Limiting lexical levels -- 2.3.4 Structure Preservation and underspecification -- 2.3.5 The Strict Cyclicity Condition -- 3 Applying the constraints: the Modern English Vowel Shift Rule -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Vowel Shift Rule and the Derived Environment Condition -- 3.3 Problems for lax-vowel Vowel Shift Rule -- 3.3.1 The divine ~ divinity alternation -- 3.3.2 Apparent exceptions -- 3.3.3 The derivation of [ju] -- 3.3.3.1 Previous analyses of [ ju] -- 3.3.3.2 An alternative analysis -- 3.4 Problems for Level 1 Vowel Shift Rule -- 3.4.1 Interacting rules -- 3.4.2 The strong verbs -- 4 Synchrony, diachrony and Lexical Phonology: the Scottish Vowel Length Rule -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A brief external history of Scots and Scottish Standard English -- 4.3 The Scots dialects and Scottish Standard English: synchronic linguistic characteristics -- 4.3.1 Consonants -- 4.3.2 Vowels -- 4.4 Internal history -- 4.4.1 Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening -- 4.4.2 The Great Vowel Shift -- Stage 1 (c.1400-1450 North, 1450-1500 South) -- Stage 2 (c.1450-1500 North, 1550-1620 South) -- Stage 3 (c.1490-1510 North, 1600-1630 South).

Stage 4 (c.1500-1550 North, 1690-1715 South) -- 4.4.3 The Scottish Vowel Length Rule -- 4.4.3.1 Justifying the S in SVLR -- 4.4.3.2 Dating the historical SVLR -- 4.4.3.3 SVLR and diphthongs -- 4.5 The Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Present-Day Scots and Scottish Standard English -- 4.5.1 The input to the Scottish Vowel Length Rule -- 4.5.2 The Scottish Vowel Length Rule and Low-Level Lengthening -- 4.5.2.1 Experimental evidence -- 4.5.2.2 Low-Level Lengthening -- 4.5.2.3 Evidence for the interaction of SVLR and LLL -- 4.5.2.4 The environment for SVLR -- 4.5.2.5 The ordering of SVLR and LLL in a Lexical Phonology -- 4.6 From sound change to phonological rule -- 4.6.1 Standard Generative Phonology and Lexical Phonology -- 4.6.2 The life-cycle of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule -- 5 Dialect differentiation in Lexical Phonology: the unwelcome effects of underspecification -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Length, tenseness and English vowel systems -- 5.3 For and against the identity hypothesis -- 5.4 Underspecification -- 5.4.1 An outline -- 5.4.2 Problems for underspecification -- 5.4.3 Underspecification in Lexical Phonology -- 6 English /r/ -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 English /r/: a brief outline -- 6.3 Non-rhotic /r/: an insertion analysis -- 6.3.1 An orthoepical interlude -- 6.3.2 Rule inversion and [r]-Insertion -- 6.4 Alternative analyses -- 6.4.1 Scobbie (1992), Donegan (1993) -- 6.4.2 McCarthy (1991) -- 6.4.3 Harris (1994) -- 6.5 Synchronic arbitrariness and diachronic transparency -- 6.5.1 The problem -- 6.5.2 Using the past to explain the present -- 6.5.3 Modelling the past -- 6.6 Lexical Phonology and English /r/ -- 6.7 Retrospect and p[r]ospect -- Bibliography -- Index.