ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the syllabification and the syllable-related phonology of three typologically diverse languages: Diola Fogny (West African), Lardil (Australian), and Attic Greek (Indoeuropean). All three cases have previously been analyzed in a nonlinear framework. Wilkinson proposes a syllable-based analysis of various aspects of Lardil Phonology. The chapter presents a set of word-final truncations, which Wilkinson argues to be results of Stray Erasure, and in each case Stray Erasure of unsyllabified segments plays a crucial role. The chapter follows Steriade in hypothesizing that all consonant deletions are the result of Stray Erasure of unsyllabifiable segments. Stray Erasure is seen to apply word-medially during the lexical cycles, and word-finally at the word level. At the postlexical level, the segments which have survived through the word level can be syllabified because structure Preservation no longer holds.
