• 1: Introduction


• 2: A Minimalist Program for Phonology


• 3: Phonology in Evolutionary Perspective


• 4: The Syntax-Phonology Interface


• 5: Representations and Primitive Operations


• 6: Linguistic Variation


• 7: Conclusions


• Glossary


• Bibliography


• Index

Bridget Samuels is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park. She currently serves on the editorial board of the journal Biolinguistics and, with Kleanthes K. Grohmann, is co-founder of the Linguistic Society of America Special Interest Group on Biolinguistics. She received her doctorate in linguistics from Harvard University.

Phonological Architecture bridges linguistic theory and the biological sciences, presenting a comprehensive view of phonology from a biological perspective. Its back-to-basics approach breaks phonology into primitive operations and representations and investigates their possible origins in cognitive abilities found throughout the animal kingdom.