Introduction to Government Phonology

Material for a course taught by Tobias Scheer
at Warsaw University, Instytut Anglistyki
spring 2002

List of articles that are permanently available at the library of the Institute
(alphabetical order)

1. Chapter 1 (= synthesis of Standard Government Phonology) from Charette, Monik 1991. Conditions on Phonological Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Gussmann, Edmund and Jonathan Kaye 1993. Polish notes from a Dubrovnik Café: I. The yers. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 3, 427-462.
3. Gussmann, Edmund and John Harris 1998. Final Codas: why the west was wrong. Structure and Interpretation. Studies in Phonology, edited by Eugeniusz Cyran, 139-162. Lublin: Folium.
4. Harris, John 1990. Segmental complexity and phonological government. Phonology Yearbook 7.2, 255–300.
5. Harris, John 1997. Licensing Inheritance: an integrated theory of neutralisation. Phonology Yearbook 14, 315-370.
6. Harris, John and Geoff Lindsey 1995. The elements of phonological representation. Frontiers of Phonology, edited by J.Durand and F.Katamba, 34-79. Harlow, Essex: Longman.
7. Kaye, Jonathan 1992. Do you believe in magic? The story of s+C sequences. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 2, 293-313. Also in: A Festschrift for Edmund Gussmann, edited by Henryk Kardela and Bogdan Szymanek, 155-176. Lublin: Lublin Unniversity Press 1996.
8. Kaye, Jonathan 1990. 'Coda' licensing. Phonology Yearbook 7.2, 301-330.
9. Kaye, Jonathan, Jean Lowenstamm and Jean-Roger Vergnaud 1985. The internal structure of phonological representations: a theory of Charm and Government. Phonology Yearbook 2, 305-328.
10. Kaye, Jonathan, Jean Lowenstamm and Jean-Roger Vergnaud 1990. Constituent structure and government in phonology. Phonology Yearbook 7.2, 193-231.
11. Lowenstamm, Jean 1996. CV as the only syllable type. Current trends in Phonology. Models and Methods, edited by Jacques Durand and Bernard Laks, 419-441. Salford, Manchester: ESRI.
12. Lowenstamm, Jean 1999. The beginning of the word. Phonologica 1996, edited by John Rennison and Klaus Kühnhammer, 153-166. La Hague: Holland Academic Graphics.
13. Scheer, Tobias 1997. Vowel-zero alternations and their support for a theory of consonantal interaction. In: Bertinetto, P.M., Gaeta, L., Jecev, G., Michaels, D. (ed): Certamen Phonologicum III, 67-88. Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier.
14. Scheer, Tobias 1998. A unified model of Proper Government. The Linguistic Review 15, 41-67.
15. Scheer, Tobias 1998. Governing domains are head-final. Structure and Interpretation. Studies in Phonology, edited by Eugeniusz Cyran, 261-285. Lublin: Folium.
16. Scheer, Tobias 1999. A theory of consonantal interaction. Folia Linguistica 32, 201-237.
17. Scheer, Tobias 1999. Syllable Unstructure: CVCV. Handout from the 6th Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar, Plovdiv/ Bulgaria. [also downloadable from the main page]
18. Scheer, Tobias. Main handout for the course. [also downloadable from the main page]
19. Ségéral, Philippe and Tobias Scheer 2001. La Coda-Miroir [in French]. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 96, 107-152. [English version on the web-site]
20. Ségéral, Philippe and Tobias Scheer 2001. The Coda Mirror. English version of the previous paper. Ms. [also downloadable from the main page]

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