Download or read book The Phonological Enterprise written by Mark Hale and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Hale and Charles Reiss present a fundamental critique of the phonological enterprise. They examine the nature of phonological acquisition and its relation to an innate acquisition device, consider the distinction between competence and performance, and evaluate competing explanations of diachronic phonology.