Abstract
This article examines an important episode in the history of generative phonology, namely the abandonment of extrinsic ordering. Soon after the publication of The Sound Pattern of English (1968), several authors question one of the central tenets of the "standard" model, according to which phonological rules are strictly ordered, and this order is language-specific. First, we examine the immediate historical antecedents of generative phonology. We then propose a critical analysis of the argumentation that led to the abandonment of the hypothesis of extrinsic ordering. Finally, we study the more fundamental issues behind this debate, which concerns perennial problems in the history of phonology (and of linguistics in general). We also particularly insist on the diachronic side of the arguments of the linguists involved.
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