ABSTRACT
In this chapter I will discuss the notion of derivation within the framework of Government Phonology (GP). 1 I will consider the lexical representation of phonological strings, how they are treated by the phonology, and their relationship to the speech signal. Such considerations inevitably lead us to the study of interfaces. I will present a proposal, first formulated by Jean-Roger Vergnaud and me (Kaye and Vergnaud (1990)), for a phonological-lexical interface. I will then argue that there is no phonological-phonetic interface for the simple reason that there is no linguistically significant level of phonetics as distinct from phonology.
