Primitives of Phonological Structure

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Florian Breit is Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology at University College London. His research is mainly concerned with the building blocks of melodic representation and how they may or may not interact with other levels of linguistic representation; he focuses particularly on mutation at the morphosyntax-phonology interface and the representation of voicing and nasality in Element Theory. Bert Botma is Lecturer in Phonetics Phonology and Morphology at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His research areas include segmental phonology nasals and nasalization processes and the phonology of Nivkh. Marijn van 't Veer is Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology at the University of Amsterdam. In addition to his work on acquisition he is primarily interested in typology and descriptive phonology with a special interest in speech sounds that challenge the traditional understanding of natural classes. Marc van Oostendorp is Senior Researcher at the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam and Professor of Dutch and Academic Communication at Radboud University Nijmegen. He works on derivational and computational aspects of phonological theory and on variational linguistics.