ABSTRACT
Lakoff's new theory of cognitive phonology appears to be free of the rule ordering constraints that make generative rules computationally awkward. It uses a multilevel representation for utterances, to which multiple rules may apply in parallel. This paper presents the first implementation of Lakoff's proposal, based on a novel “many maps” architecture. The architecture may also explain certain constraints on phonological rules that are not adequately accounted for by more abstract models.
