William Idsardi is professor and chair in the Linguistics department at the University of Maryland, College Park. My research is in phonology and the related areas that phonology connects with.
Time and temporal order are often represented only implicitly in phonological diagrams. In this talk I argue from several perspectives that the basic ordering relation for speech and phonology is <, which does not require temporal contiguity. Several phenomena are analyzed using directed graphs which explicitly represent gappy bigram relations between elements.
