Generative Phonology: Description and Theory is a 1979 book by Michael Kenstowicz and Charles Kisseberth in which the authors provides an introduction...

models of language. Generative linguistics includes work in core areas such as syntax, semantics, phonology, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition...

Michael Kenstowicz, Charles Kisseberth (10 May 2014). Generative Phonology: Description and Theory. Academic Press. ISBN 9781483277394. Archived from the...

Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle published The Sound Pattern of English (SPE), the basis for generative phonology. In that view, phonological representations...

Zellig Harris (1951), and further developed by Ray Jackendoff (1974, 1977a, 1977b), along the lines of the theory of generative grammar put forth in the...

with Fred Lukoff initially), Halle developed a new theory of phonology called generative phonology. Their collaboration culminated with the publication...

representations, and the outputs as their surface realizations. It is an approach within the larger framework of generative grammar. Optimality theory has its...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As a theory of phonological representation, autosegmental phonology developed a formal account of ideas that had...

Linguistic Theory since 1987. Phonology in Generative Grammar, Blackwell Publications 1994 Generative Phonology: Description and Theory, with Charles Kisseberth...

goals: A description of the phonology of the language in question. A description of the morphology of words belonging to that language. A description of the...

New York: Harper & Row Clements, G.N.; Keyser, S. (1983), CV Phonology: A Generative Theory of the Syllable, Cambridge, MA: MIT press Collins, Beverley;...

dependency-based theories of syntax are the following: Recursive categorical syntax, or algebraic syntax Functional generative description Meaning–text theory Operator...

transformational grammar (TG) or transformational-generative grammar (TGG) is part of the theory of generative grammar, especially of natural languages. It...

current theories of phonology. Some major successor theories include autosegmental phonology, lexical phonology and optimality theory. Chomsky and Halle...

their interpretation of linguistic phenomena. For instance, within the generative grammar framework, linguists might focus on underlying syntactic structures...

theory of language and a general theory of linguistic description. Current humanistic approaches include theories within structural linguistics and functional...

Perspectives on Element Theory, Studies in Generative Grammar, vol. 143, De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 207–249 Akamatsu, Tsutomu (2000), Japanese Phonology: A Functional...

process in linguistics. Phonological rules are commonly used in generative phonology as a notation to capture sound-related operations and computations the human...

formalism, but this does not exclude functional theories from creating grammatical descriptions that are generative in the sense of formulating rules that distinguish...

"Gradient well-formedness in Optimality Theory" (PDF). In Joost Dekkers (ed.). Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition. Oxford University Press...

needed] Further, the generative theory has several constructs (such as movement, empty categories, complex underlying structures, and strict binary branching)...

phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages), phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language), and pragmatics (how the...

grammatical description". To support his point, Chomsky considers a similar relation between semantics and phonology. He shows that in order to build a theory of...

(United States, 1929–2014), syntax, phonology, Haisla language Baker, Mark (United States, 1959–), Mohawk language, generative grammar Bally, Charles (Switzerland...

of mainstream generative linguistics. Principles and parameters as a grammar framework is also known as government and binding theory. That is, the two...

or generative grammar. Having been engaged with Chomsky in the linguistic wars, George Lakoff united in the early 1980s with Ronald Langacker and other...

prosodic-phonological lack of freedom of bound morphemes. The intermediate status of clitics poses a considerable challenge to linguistic theory. Given...

object Generative linguistics – an approach which seeks to ground grammar in a specialized language module Formalism (linguistics) – the theory of language...

clauses, phrases, and words. The term may also refer to the study of such rules, a subject that includes phonology, morphology, and syntax, together with...

language theory. The structuralist endeavor is, however, more comprehensive, ranging from the mathematical organisation of the semantic system to phonology, morphology...