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Title: Disappointing
Review: Despite the impressive phonological apparatus Morris Halle contributed to this work, the reader needs to look closely at the derivations proposed. In almost every case, the rule applications are no more than diachronic restatements. In other words, they simply recap the historical evolution of the current forms.That is because the concept of underlying forms is the stumbling block of Chomsky's theory, and although Chomskyians and their ilk try to avoid diachronic data, they really cannot in the long run.
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