Element Interactions at Domain Edges
Element Interactions at Domain Edges

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the forthcoming article is to outline and exemplify the approach of Government Phonology (henceforth GP) to the problem of intersegmental effects attested to at the edges of phonological domains. This goal, in turn, requires prior explanation of the ways in which morphology contributes to the conditions under which phonological phenomena arise. The considerations submitted in this paper are of general introductory character. We shall refrain from going into any polemic with other theoretical frameworks and restrict ourselves to scrutinizing the GP perspective. The examples illustrating the issue of segmental interactions will be taken from English and Connemara Irish. Our immediately succeeding discussion will be devoted to the internal structure of melodies as defined by GP.

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