Paul Kiparsky – Lexical Morphology and Phonology.

The author starts representing his explanation of a structure of lexicon,

where there's some levels taken in consideration to show it.

So, based on the structure, the levels point the match between the
morphological and phonological elements, that results in the develop of
compounded words, sufixes and gramatical rules.

The underival lexical entries, has 3 levels of morphological and phonological

elements that are intrinsically noncyclic, stared by:

The level one, where we found boundary – inflection and derivation,

intrinsically connected with the stress and shortening (derivational suffixes), in the
level two, are the derivation and compounding intrinsically connected with the
compound stress (suffixes as -hood -ness -ism), and the level three, where the
inflection is intrinsically connected with the laxing (regular inflection).

Those unions, and formation of words, are made and build by rules that has
been taking sense since the start of the language, by centuries ago, and with the
morphological and phonological changes that has been presented.

This structure, also has kind of controversy, due to the compositional

interpretations, meanings, gramma differences, or judgements made by others
experts, that’s why the author took the time to talk about the abstractness and the
cyclicity, which was taken in consideration to studies by other people.

Standing on the line of being abstract, they never forgot about the simplicity
that do not has to be lost in the words, talking in a phonological and morphological
way.
 In the other hand, one of his explanations was the Morpheme Structure
where he showed that some problems in the previous points, they could be
resolved.

He said that in English there’s words what can’t be exists without following
some specifically lexical rules that has to be taken, mixed with phonetical and
gramma rules (blank-filling function of lexical rules).

The duplication problem, shown as a lexical redundancy rule between

some words, due to phonology and morphology, sounds and rhymes. Words that
have kind of equal mixed letters. (path-spathe).

Two others problems, like domain and level, as the final points of his
explanation, because: words are the domain of phonological phenomena, and the
domains depends only on phonology; level depends on the specified sounds of the
words.

As a personal opinion, I saw this research clear, but extensive. It was

helpful to understand the problems possibilities found on this language, but also
the possibilities to solve them with the rules application. This research, took a
deep look forward on the morphological and phonological application in words, and
helps the students to understand that the phonology studies are bigger than we
think.