Abstract
Abstract A proposal is made for the integration of syllabification into a generative grammar: the process of syllabification applies exactly once following or as part of the application of the morpholexical rules and prior to all (true) phonological rules. Various counterexamples to this proposal are either shown to be apparent only or else to be analyses that are less desirable than the analysis following from the syllabification hypothesis at hand. (The hypothesis has implications for the representation of processes of epenthesis, metathesis, vowel loss, and reduplication, among others.) The representation of syllable boundary, the occurrence of lexical £, and the underlying representation of semivowels are also dealt with.
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