ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at some rules that need to be applied cyclically for a successful description of certain phonological processes within the generative phonological approach. The relevant rule is usually called trisyllabic laxing (TSL), and although its precise formulation is controversial. TSL only applies when certain derivational morphological suffixes are applied to the stem. It is the Strict Cycle Condition (SCC) that allows to account for the Finnish data. Work in this area led some phonologists to develop a theory of lexical phonology. The chapter takes some examples and work them through the various levels. WFRs include primary inflections, and here we can see phonological lexical rules that are other than stress and weakening related. At first sight, it might seem to make sense to use the same hierarchical structure that has been posited for syntactic organization. Prosodic phonology are described in, and texts, although again it may wish to consult a variety of original papers.
