ABSTRACT

‘Radical CV Phonology’ is a variant of Dependency Phonology (Anderson and Jones 1974, Anderson and Ewen 1987). The symbols C and V do not refer to skeletal units in the sense of Clements and Keyser (1983), but to two phonological features, which play a pivotal role in this chapter and in the theory I develop here. Radical CV Phonology shares with Dependency Phonology most of its ‘leading ideas’ and tries to further develop the execution of these in specific domains. In this chapter the domain I focus on is segmental structure and, specifically, non-place properties.