ESSAYS ON THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- Part one. The Sound Pattern of English reviewed -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE NEW PHONOLOGICAL PARADIGM -- 2. REVIEW OF THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH -- 3. REVIEW OF THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- PHONOLOGICAL THEORY: CHAPTERS SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE -- REFERENCES -- 4. REVIEW OF THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH -- REFERENCES -- Part two. The Stress System of English -- INTRODUCTION -- 5. SOME PROBLEMS IN THE DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH ACCENTUATION -- REFERENCES -- 6. ENGLISH WORD STRESS AND PHRASE STRESS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part 1. THE WORD -- Part 2. PHRASE AND WORD -- REFERENCES -- 7. NONCYCLIC ENGLISH WORD STRESS -- REFERENCES -- 8. STRESS RULES IN ENGLISH: A NEW VERSION -- Addendum -- REFERENCES -- 9. ENGLISH WORD STRESS: AN EXAMINATION OF SOME BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The cycle and word-stress -- 2. Accentual properties of affixes -- 3.The stress-weakening convention -- 4.Vowel reduction strictly linked to lack of stress -- 5.The 'stress retraction' rules -- 6. The Main Stress Rule in nouns and in verbs -- 7. Use of readjustment rules to modify boundaries -- 8. Stress as a lexical category -- 9. Restrictions on disjunctive ordering -- 10. The rule system -- 11. The rule system restated -- REFERENCES -- Part three. The Vowel System of English -- INTRODUCTION -- 10. PROBLEMS IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE GREAT ENGLISH VOWEL SHIFT -- 1. Relation to other work -- 2. Issues relating to the vowel shift -- 3. Versions of the vowel shift -- 4. Relation of synchronic vowel shift rules to history -- 5. Possible constraints on switching rules -- 6. External evidence about the history -- 7. Evidence from dialects -- REFERENCES.

11. ON THE VALIDITY OF THE CHOMSKY-HALLE ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL ENGLISH VOWEL SHIFT -- REFERENCES -- 12. SOME THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT -- 13. VOWEL FEATURES, PAIRED VARIABLES, AND THE ENGLISH VOWEL SHIFT -- REFERENCES -- 14. UNDERLYING VOWELS IN MODERN ENGLISH -- REFERENCES -- 15. REVIEW OF THE SOUND PATTERN OF ENGLISH -- REFERENCES -- Part four. Fundamental Principles of Phonology -- INTRODUCTION -- 16. ON THE NEED FOR A PHONOLOGICAL BASE -- Phonological symmetry in pre-Chomskyan linguistics -- Base and conversion rules -- Arguments against a phonological base -- Some inadequacies in the theory of systematic phonetics -- For a historical interpretation of phonological rules -- Against a synchronic interpretation of 1968 phonology -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 17. HOW INTRINSIC IS CONTENT? MARKEDNESS, SOUND CHANGE, AND 'FAMILY UNIVERSALS' -- 1. Markedness and historical 'explanation': the front round vowels in Ger-manic -- 2. 'Naturalness' and the statistical fallacy -- 3. Historical change and language-specific 'naturalness': the retroflex stops in Dravidian and Indo-European -- 4. Some characteristics of a genuinely 'nonnormal' category: Indo-European segments in Kannada -- 5. Implications for 'universal phonetics' -- REFERENCES -- 18. ON SOME FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF PHONOLOGY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Redundancies -- 3. Underlying Forms -- 4, Phonological Rules -- 5. The evaluation measure -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- Indexes -- LANGUAGE INDEX -- WORD INDEX -- AFFIX INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.