HEADHOOD, ELEMENTS, SPECIFICATION AND CONTRASTIVITY -- Editorial page -- Tiitle page -- LCC data -- Contents -- John M. Anderson. A brief profile of the man and his career in linguistics -- John M. Anderson: Publications 1968-2004 -- List of contributors -- Introduction. The structure of phonological representations -- Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen -- Salience, headhood and analogies -- Philip Carr -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Anderson and the generative tradition -- 3. Structural analogy -- 4. An analogy between phonology and semantics -- 5. Salience and individual pathways in acquisition -- 6. Conclusion -- Old English I-umlaut: A unitary sound change? -- Fran Colman -- 1. Background -- 2. West Saxon IU formulated -- 3. West Saxon IU reformulated -- 4. Anglian IU -- 5. Kentish IU -- 6. Conclusion -- Old English breaking and syllable structure -- Mike Davenport -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Old English Breaking: an outline -- 3. The OEB environments -- 4. The OEB environment and syllable structure -- 5. Double trouble: OEB and geminates -- 6. Double or quits: word-final /x/ again -- Tense/Lax, the vowel system of English and phonological theory -- Jacques Durand -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three approaches to vowel systems: a brief historical sketch -- 3. Tense/lax in English and phonetic evidence -- 4. Revisiting length in English -- 5. Is there a place for the feature tense/lax in English? -- 6. Conclusion -- Headedness and defective distributions in Polish -- Edmund Gussmann -- Vowel reduction as information loss -- John Harris -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Centrifugal and centripetal reduction -- 3. Vowel reduction in functional Optimality Theory -- 4. Vowel reduction as information loss in the speech signal -- 5. Vowel reduction as information loss in phonology -- 6. Teleology of vowel reduction: attention vs. effort.

Tone and dependency in Yorùbá -- Phil Harrison -- 1. Introduction -- 2. [L] and phonetic signatures -- 3. Yorùbá prosodic constituents -- 4. The form and content of Yorùbá nuclear domains -- 5. Typological context: other languages and universality -- 6. The sound of prosody -- Sharing makes us stronger -- Patrick Honeybone -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prosody, melody and segmental structure -- 3. Processes, environments, inhibition and strength -- 4. Lenition inhibition: generalisations and proposals -- 5. Case studies of process inhibition -- 6. Conclusions -- The molecular structure of phonological segments -- Harry van der Hulst -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Manner -- 3. Place -- 4. Laryngeal -- 5. Nasality -- 6. Incomplete structures -- 7. Complex segments -- 8. Some correspondences with Government Phonology -- 9. Conclusions -- Appendices -- Representation and the role of underspecification in declarative phonology -- Ken Lodge -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Declarative Phonology -- 3. Spin-offs underspecification -- 4. Postscript -- Heads I win, tails you lose -- April McMahon -- 1. Optimality Theory: an embarrassment of riches -- 2. Prosody, melody and evolution -- 3. Extending the argument: prosody, melody and acquisition -- 4. Prosodic conditioning of melody and melodic conditioning of prosody -- 5. An evolutionary perspective -- How a phonological theory of headedness can account for strong vs. weak phonetic alternants -- Nancy A. Ritter -- 1. Introduction -- 2. v and its phonetic realisations around the world -- 3. Hungarian v: a case study for Head-Driven Phonology -- 4. Conclusions -- The aperture particle

6. Conclusion -- Towards a Taw-based phonological representation of place -- Jørgen Staun -- 1. Preamble: aims and assumptions -- 2. The basic components -- 3. The vowel space -- 4. Consonantal place -- 5. Closing remarks -- References -- Language index -- Name index -- Subject index -- The Series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.