Contents -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations and Symbols -- I. Background -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Aims, scope, and coverage -- 1.2. Overview of previous literature -- 1.3. Framework and theoretical assumptions -- 1.4. Chapter layout -- 2. PRELIMINARIES -- 2.1. The Hungarian language -- 2.2. Orthography and sound system -- 2.3. Stress and intonation -- 2.4. Morphology and syntax -- II. Systems -- 3. THE VOWEL SYSTEM -- 3.1. Vowel length alternations -- 3.2. Vowel harmony -- 4. THE CONSONANT SYSTEM -- 4.1. Obstruents -- 4.2. Sonorants -- 4.3. The underlying consonant system -- 5. PHONOTACTICS: SYLLABLE STRUCTURE -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Syllable structure: SSCs -- 5.3. Transyllabic constraints -- 5.4. Morpheme structure: MSCs -- III. Processes -- 6. PROCESSES INVOLVING VOWELS -- 6.1. Vowel harmony -- 6.2. Lengthening and shortening processes -- 7. PROCESSES INVOLVING CONSONANTS -- 7.1. Palatalization -- 7.2. Sibilant rules -- 7.3. Voicing assimilation and devoicing processes -- 7.4. Processes involving nasals and liquids -- 8. PROCESSES CONDITIONED BY SYLLABLE STRUCTURE -- 8.1. Vowel ~ zero alternations -- 8.2. Alternations involving consonants -- 9. SURFACE PROCESSES -- 9.1. The surface vacillation of vowel duration -- 9.2. Compensatory lengthening -- 9.3. Hiatus filling -- 9.4. Degemination -- 9.5. Fast cluster simplification -- Suggested Reading -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.