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Stefan George and phonological theory*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

Alexis Manaster Ramer
Alexis Manaster Ramer
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Wayne State University
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Ever since Baudouin de Courtenay (e.g. 1917 [1990: 500]), the founder of phonology, it has been customary for every new phonological theory to make claims about the particular level(s) at which rules of versification may refer to phonological representations. Baudouin himself, for example, took rhyming to be evidence of phonemic identity. The birth of generative phonology thus led to a series of claims that rules of versification may have access to underlying representations – or to various intermediate levels of representation more shallow than the underlying but still deeper than phonemic. Starting with Zeps (1963) and for the next twenty-odd years a certain number of such arguments have been published, and it appears that their validity is widely assumed in the field, as reflected in such survey articles as O'Connor (1982: 155–156) and Hayes (1988: 228–229). Presumably it is precisely the widespread acceptance of these arguments that explains the relative lull in the debate recently (but see Malone 1982,1983, 1988a, b).

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Phonology , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , August 1994 , pp. 317 - 323
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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