  The hierarchy of fermion masses in the standard model may arise via the
breaking of discrete gauge symmetries. The renormalizable interactions of the
flavor-symmetry-breaking potential can have accidental global symmetries that
are spontaneously broken, leading to pseudo-goldstone bosons that may drive
inflation. We consider two-field, axion-monodromy inflation models in which the
inflaton is identified with a linear combination of pseudo-goldstone bosons of
the flavor sector. We show that the resulting models are nontrivially
constrained by current cosmological data as well as the requirements of viable
flavor model building.
