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Most of the recent work within the broadly defined framework of ‘Categorial Grammar’ has focused on problems relating to the syntax and semantics of natural languages. In this paper, I will address the question of what a phonological component would be like which is compatible with the basic tenets of categorial theories. That is, I will make the assumption that the phonological component is categorial in nature and then examine some of the consequences. As a case study, I will focus on the analysis of final devoicing and voicing assimilation in Russian.
I would like to thank Emmon Bach, Jim Cathey, Greg Iverson, and especially Dick Oehrle for both their continued encouragement and their comments on earlier versions of this paper. All remaining errors are, of course, my own.
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Wheeler, D. (1988). Consequences of Some Categorially-Motivated Phonological Assumptions. In: Oehrle, R.T., Bach, E., Wheeler, D. (eds) Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6878-4_17
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