integration disintegration phonological theory dan everett comment dissertation pointed implication work fits work antecedents misleading dan reason alluding fact mit version dissertation though one circulated iulc published garland ones usually cited mentioned acknowledgements interest tone started reading leben 1973 dissertation true fact dissertation chapter first entirely devoted proposition work continuation discussion going american phonology since 1940s dan think sees pike important theoretician cite period writing focused bloch harris 1980 book hockett rather pike matter style taste anything else theme paper coming perhaps come already journal linguistics genealogical connections prosodic firthian phonology autosegemmental phonology dan also pointed major contributors phonology period still much alive intellectual active felt slighted lack citation work tried suggest paper firthian phonology indictment normal human expectations courtesy result people actually forgetting phonologists good published ideas much less latter sin many people wish believe point geoff huck made recent paper relation generative semantics current syntactic theory however purely human point view wonder many people like publishing material nonlinear phonology say first ten years 1975 1985 ever received note one contributers literature 1940s 1950s speaking sure would galvanized dropped note number linguists recent years opportunity discuss history field writing person number linguists would absolutely delighted received comment bit mild reproof perhaps established contributor perceive feeling left never anyone else john goldsmith