ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the motivations for such representations, the way they are formalized, and the potential applications to clinical data. It discusses the issue of the nature of underlying representations more fully in this chapter. Using a feature geometry like that in along with the conventions of autosegmental phonology, it shows how different classes of features behave as groups in phonological processes. While autosegmental phonology maintained the use of both rules and representations in accounting for phonological processes, it seriously challenged the form and role of the representation. The chapter discusses the implications for some common phonological disorders that autosegmental phonology brings about, and in turn consider their implication for the theory itself. It considers the following child language acquisition data and interpret it based on the unified place theory. John Goldsmith developed autosegmental phonology in his unpublished PhD thesis.