THE PHONOLOGY OF CORONALS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE FEATURE [CORONAL] -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The status of palatals -- 1.2.1 Historical background -- 1.2.2 Alleged evidence that palatals are [+coronal] -- 1.2.3 The phonetics of alveolopalatals and palatals -- 1.2.4 The phonology of alveolopalatals -- 1.2.5 Palatal fricatives -- 1.2.6 Alveolopalatal and palatal glides -- 1.2.7 Summary -- 1.3 The status of [-coronal] -- 1.3.1 An argument against [-coronal] -- 1.3.2 Evidence that labials and velars form a natural class -- 1.3.3 Attempts to eliminate [-coronal] -- 1.3.4 A solution -- 1.3.5 Remarks on feature specifications and under specification -- 2 FEATURE SPECIFICATIONS FOR CORONALS -- 2.1 Interdentals -- 2.1.1 Universal features for interdentals -- 2.1.2 Are [anterior] and [strident] binary or privative? -- 2.1.3 [strident] -- 2.1.4 [anterior] -- 2.1.5 Interdentals are not specified for [distributed] -- 2.2 Dentals and alveolars -- 2.3 Retroflex es -- 2.4 Alveolopalatals -- 2.4.1 Alveolopalatals and the palatalization feature -- 2.4.2 Alveolopalatals and the coronal features -- 2.5 Palatoalveolars -- 2.5.1 Palatoalveolars and the coronal features -- 2.5.2 Palatoalveolars and the palatalization feature -- 2.6 Palatal -- 2.6.1 Feature specifications for palatals -- 2.6.2 Palatalized palatals do not exist -- 2.6.3 Palatal vs. palatalized velar contrasts -- 2.7 Remarks on the representation of palatalization -- 2.7.1 The location of the palatalization feature -- 2.7.2 What is [+P]? -- 3 CORONAL CONSONANT INVENTORIES -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Oppositions among coronal noncontinuants -- 3.3 Coronal fricative systems -- 3.4 Inventory generalizations and the coronal features.

3.5 The feature [lateral] and the status of "sonorant" fricatives -- 4 RHOTICS -- 4.1 Phonetics -- 4.2 On the status of the feature [rhotic] -- 4.3 Stricture features -- 4.4 Miotics and the coronal features -- 4.5 Concluding remarks -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1: IPA SYMBOLS -- APPENDIX 2: THE FEATURES AND THEIR DEFINITIONS -- A.2.1 Major class features -- A.2.1.1 [consonantal] -- A.2.1.2 [sonorant] -- A.2.1.3 [approximant] -- A.2.2 Laryngeal features -- A.2.2.1 [voice] -- A.2.2.2 [spread glottis] -- A.2.2.3 [constricted glottis} -- A.2.3 Manner features -- A.2.3.1 [nasal] -- A.2.3.2 [lateral] -- A.2.3.3 [continuant] -- A.2.4 Place features -- A.2.4.1 [labial] -- A.2.4.2 [round] -- A.2.4.3 [coronal] -- A.2.4.4 [strident] -- A.2.4.5 [distributed] -- A.2.4.6 [anterior] -- A.2.4.7 [dorsal] -- A.2.4.8 [high] -- A.2.4.9 [back] -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- LANGUAGE INDEX.