government phonology

Government phonology (GP) is a theoretical framework of linguistics and more specifically of phonology.

Dissertations examining Irish phonology from a theoretical point of view include , in optimality theory, and and in government phonology.

Broadly speaking, government phonology (or its descendant, strict-CV phonology) has a greater following in the United Kingdom, whereas optimality theory is predominant in North America.

Government phonology, which originated in the early 1980s as an attempt to unify theoretical notions of syntactic and phonological structures, is based on the notion that all languages necessarily follow a small set of principles and vary according to their selection of certain binary parameters.