ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned entirely with suprasegmental structure. It shows that even within the more restricted domain the deployment of dependency representations enables distinctive claims concerning phonological structure to be made, claims which are appropriately expressive and restrictive, and thus worthy of further investigation. Evidence for a dependency interpretation of suprasegmental structure is provided by the establishment of the appropriateness for the expression of phonological regularities of groupings of segments with one (obligatory) strong (atomic) member. Suprasegmental representations are thus label-free. Constructions, heads and modifiers are distinguished by the configuration of arcs and nodes alone. Intralexical suprasegmental structure is a projection of representations whereby each segment is associated with one or more nodes in a word-tree built up out of the constructions. The upper constructions, group and foot, also differ from the lower in the nature of the segments with which their modifiers are associated. Dependency graph defines constituency, constituency-type and relative strength.
