Introduction

In 1968, Chomsky and Halle’s monumental book The Sound Pattern of English, was published. While work in generative phonology stretched back to the late 1950s, The Sound Pattern of English (hereafter SPE) defined a paradigm that is often referred to as ‘standard’ or ‘classical generative phonology’. Since SPE offered inter alia a theory of the internal structure of sound-segments, a theory of levels and derivation, a theory of the linkup between syntax and phonology, much work since 1968 has been devoted to upholding or rejecting some fundamental thesis or other of this work.