Abstract
Although sound change was the main focus of phonological investigation in the 19th and early 20th centuries, generative phonological theory initially concentrated primarily on synchronic description and explanation. Where sound changes were dealt with at all, they were typically recast as rules in a synchronic grammar. The development of lexical phonology in the 1980s represented a partial refocusing on change, since the architecture of the model lends itself particularly well to analyzing the life-cycle of phonological processes as they enter and work through the grammar historically. Some of these organizational insights are maintained in the developing model of stratal optimality theory.
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