TY - BOOK ID - 1427442 TI - Conditions on phonological government PY - 1991 VL - 58 SN - 0521392462 0521024056 0511554338 9780521392464 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Phonetics KW - Grammar KW - French language KW - Government (Grammar) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Français (Langue) KW - Rection KW - Phonologie KW - Phonology KW - Grammaire comparée KW - --Phonologie générative KW - Langue française KW - --Phonology KW - 6707 KW - Français (Langue) KW - Phonology. KW - --Langue française KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics KW - Regimen (Grammar) KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Government KW - Prepositions KW - Verb KW - Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology KW - French language - Phonology KW - Phonologie générative KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1427442 AB - This 1991 book was the first extended study written within the framework of Government Phonology. Following the presentation of the main aspects of this theory, the process of vowel-zero alternations is addressed and analysed together with the idea that phonological processes are determined by principles of Universal Grammar along with parameters that distinguish languages. By using predominantly the alternation between schwa and zero in French, Monik Charette demonstrates that vowel-zero alternations are neither cases of insertion nor of deletion. Rather, they involve the interpretation of 'empty nuclei', i.e. nuclei with no segmental content, which must be licensed by proper government. It is when proper government fails to apply that a vowel is realized. Dr Charette also gives consideration to the constraints to which proper government is subject. She argues that these constraints result from phonological principles in conflict. This book represents a major development in the analysis of phonological processes. The extension of grammatical principles and parameters to phonological phenomena is well argued, and will interest theoretical phonologists and specialists of French alike. ER -