Hidden Generalizations is the first monograph devoted exclusively to the problem of
phonological opacity. Opacity arises when the conditions for or results of an active …

There is a well-known rule of Russianwhereby/i/is said to be realized as [į] after non-
palatalized consonants. Somewhat less well known is another allophonic rule of Russian …

The main goal of this dissertation is to provide a generative account of phonological opacity
within a framework built upon direct mapping in the synchronic grammar without abstract …

Chinese tone has played an important role in the development of phonological theory from
distinctive features and autosegmental phonology to Optimality Theory and its various …

Recent studies on productivity have shown that native speakers' phonological knowledge
not only includes statistical patterns in the lexicon, but also patterns that cannot be gleaned …

Tone sandhi refers to tonal alternations conditioned by adjacent tones or the prosodic and/or
morphosyntactic position in which the tone occurs (Chen 2000, among others). For example …

This chapter provides an overview of how experimental work has informed phonological
theories, and vice versa. This chapter starts with a historical overview; when phonology was …

In a recent trend, phonologists are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that many
phonological processes are variable (Labov 1972, 1994), gradient (Hayes 2000, Frisch et al …

A wug test study of tone sandhi patterns in Taiwanese indicates that sandhi productivity is
affected by phonological opacity as well as the durational property and lexical frequency of …

The study of opacity has had a long tradition in generative phonology. Kiparsky (1973: p. 79)
defined two types of opacity for a phonological rule, as in (1). The first type is also known as …