ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we turn to the question of phonological representations once again. In Chapter 3, it was argued that various facts pointed to the need for richer infrasegmental structure (cf 3.5 on gestures). And in Chapters 5 and 6, we progressively abandoned the unidimensional picture of phonology of SPE, in that the string of segments was argued to be linked to suprasegmental structure on the one hand (syllable, foot, etc.), and to morphosyntactic structure on the other. We also saw that, in some theories, an additional structural plane (the grid) was postulated to represent patterns of rhythm and prominence. In such theories, three independent planes (more correctly, half-planes) intersect at the level of segments. We also introduced the notion of a CV tier which was placed between segments and the suprasegmental hierarchy.
