ABSTRACT
Clinical applications of generative phonology are explored in Grunwell. The early version of generative phonology was a major step forward in the formal description of both allophonic and morphophonemic alternations in the sound systems of natural language. Although many of the approaches to phonology outlined in this book can be thought of as falling within the broad heading of generative phonology (for example, lexical, autosegmental, and metrical phonology), the earliest full exposition of the model came in Sound Pattern of English (SPE). Generative phonology makes use of rules as descriptive devices. It explains how generative phonology proposes that phonological description is accomplished by positing two levels of representation and a series of rules linking the underlying level to the surface level. The chapter concludes by examining these, in each case assuming we are dealing with just two rules.
