Abstract
There have of late appeared alternative generative theories stressing the inadequacies of the standard model of generative phonology. One of the two objects of this paper is to present an outline of one such theory, dependency phonology, including a tentative proposal concerning the consonantal component within this model. The other object is to discuss its ability to account for historical sound changes, particularly in connection with Old English Retraction of [æ:] and Danish Bifurcation of [a]. It is concluded that a dependency account is superior to that of a binary/scalar model and that both changes are instances of a more general process, vowel strengthening.
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