The Sound Pattern of English/Definition

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A definition or brief description of The Sound Pattern of English.

A landmark work on the rules of English phonology by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle, which importantly rejected the phoneme as a true phonological unit; subsequently built upon by other analyses that recognised the syllable and other units of prosodic organisation.