| Autosegmental Phonology |
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The main idea of autosegmental Theory is that Phonology no longer regards the phenomena it studies as a linear sequence of Phonemes and a collection of processes which describe the changes which occur in this sequence. Goldsmith proposes to represent phonological phenomena as a collection of parallel tiers with individual segments which represent certain features of speech. Various feature systems have been proposed. Depending on the nature of the study already a few can explain phenomena which are difficult to explain otherwise. An example would be one tier representing the conventional segments (in the sense of Phonemes ) and an additional tier representing tone. (see Tone Language ) Autosegmental phonology has served as the foundation for further developments in phonology such as Nonconcatenative Morphology . EXTERNAL LINKS
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