UNIVERSAL SYLLABIC PHONOLOGY

A preliminary version of this paper was presented under the title "Toward a syllabic phonology" in the lecture series of Gaberell Drachman's Linguistic Summer Institute, University of Salzburg, August 10, 1977. A sedbnd version was prepared for, and discussed at, the Symposium on Segment Organization and the Syllable, Boulder, Colorado, October 21-23, 1977, under the title "The logical structure of a syllabic phonology". I would like to thank the organizers of the Symposium, Alan Bell and Joan Hooper, and, indirectly, the National Science Foundation, grant no. BNS7708895, for giving me the opportunity to present the paper there. Thanks are also due to Helmut Schnelle for a number of useful suggestions, and to Joachim Jacobs for checking the manuscript and commenting on several points. Finally, I would like to thank Hans-Heinrich Lieb for sending me his manuscript on Trubetzkoy's phonology (Lieb MS). This excellent reconstruction of essential traits of Trubetzkoy's theory has helped me avoid, in the present revision, a number of mistakes that marred the earlier versions. For a survey of the history of the subject from Sievers* work through the midsixties cf. Awedyk 1975.