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This book’s “epilogue and prologue” sketches a theory of markedness, trading plus or minus for u or m to address its “inadequacy.” This text’s 4 parts gradually elaborate an ordered list of productive rules, such as opposing nuclear and compound stress assignment, which speakers apply unconsciously in a transformational cycle. This book posits “oy” as the only underlying diphthong, (-5[1])explaining pairs like (*) divine/divinity with trisyllabic laxing and long–short vowel alternation, in an outdated, fully synchronic account of one language. This 1968 book popularized “X arrow Y slash environment” notation (10[1])and adopted its dedicatee Jakobson’s binary distinctive features. After analyzing Russian in a similarly-titled monograph, (10[1])Morris Halle (“HAL-ee”) co-authored this book (-5[1])with another MIT linguist. (-5[3])For 10 points, (-5[1])what landmark work of descriptive (-5[1])phonology (-5[2])formalizes Chomsky’s native (-5[1])language in a generative grammar framework? ■END■ (10[2]0[12])

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