ABSTRACT

Proposed by J.Goldsmith, a representation of generative phonology which allows certain features to be described as belonging to one or more segments. This hypothesis has proven useful in the description of tonal languages and vowel harmony. Autosegmental phonology is one theory of non-linear phonology. ( also prosody)

References

Clements, G.V. 1977. The autosegmental treatment of vowel harmony. In W.U.Dressler and O.E. Pfeiffer (eds), Phonologica 1976. Innsbruck. 111-19.