Raymond Harris-Northall uses the distinctive features of generative
phonology to present synchronic and diachronic rules, but exploits
the evidence of the history of the Spanish sound system to show
that the 'simplicity' required by the generativists often obscures
rather than illuminates the way in which changes develop from small
beginnings. Instead, he illustrates the essential need to recognise
the relevance of syllable structure constraints, which, allied with
a complex but justified and helpful presentation of the relevant
strength hierarchies, allow him not only to describe but to explain
how changes began in the most suitable phonetic environments and
then spread to subsequent items on the hierarchy over time. The
result is the most serious and detailed application of strength
hierarchy theory that has yet been made to a coherent body of
historical data from two millennia of attestations, data that is
interesting in its own right, and amenable to the theory.
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