The book will interest a wide range of linguists and some psychologists as well as specialists in phonology and phonetics.

Prologue; 1. On psychological reality; 2. Phonology in a model of communicative competence; 3. Phonological forms as plans for phonetic acts; 4. Phonetic plans and lexical entries; 5. Phonemic contrasts; 6. Phonotactics and phonological correctness; 7. Morphological operations and morphophonology; 8. Word forms as primes; 9. Morphemes and morpheme identity; 10. Typology of phonological rules; 11. The child's acquisition of phonology; 12. On the fallacy of regarding morphemes as phonological invariants; 13. The concreteness and non-autonomy of phonology; Epilogue; Bibliography.