The Handbook of Phonological Theory

by John A. Goldsmith (Editor), Jason Riggle (Editor), Alan C. L. Yu (Editor)

Overview

The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines.

• Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chapters
• Addresses the important questions in the field including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation, and assesses the findings and accomplishments in these domains
• Brings together a renowned and international contributor team
• Offers new and unique reflections on the advances in phonological theory since publication of the first edition in 1995
• Along with the first edition, still in publication, it forms the most complete and current overview of the subject in print

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118798010
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/07/2014
Series:	Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	976
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John A. Goldsmith is Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He is author of Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology (Basil Blackwell, 1990).

Jason Riggle is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Chicago Language Modeling Lab at the University of Chicago. He has published in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Research on Language and Computation, Linguistic Inquiry and Computational Linguistics.

Alan C. L. Yu is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Phonology Laboratory at the University of Chicago. He is the author of A Natural History of Infixation (2007) and has published in Language, Phonology, and the Journal of Phonetics.

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Preface ix

1 Rules v. Constraints 1
David Odden

2 Opacity and Ordering 40
Eric Baković

3 The Interaction Between Morphology and Phonology 68
Sharon Inkelas

4 Quantity 103
Stuart Davis

5 Stress Systems 141
Matthew Gordon

6 The Syllable 164
John A. Goldsmith

7 Tone: Is it Different? 197
Larry M. Hyman

8 Harmony Systems 240
Sharon Rose and Rachel Walker

9 Contrast Reduction 291
Alan C. L. Yu

10 Diachronic Explanations of Sound Patterns 319
Gunnar Ólafur Hansson

11 Phonetics in Phonology 348
D. R. Ladd

12 Corpora and Exemplars in Phonology 374
Mirjam Ernestus and R. Harald Baayen

13 The Place of Variation in Phonological Theory 401
Andries W. Coetzee and Joe Pater

14 The Syntax-Phonology Interface 435
Elisabeth Selkirk

15 Intonation 485
Mary E. Beckman and Jennifer J. Venditti

16 Dependency-based Phonologies 533
Harry van der Hulst

17 The Acquisition of Phonology 571
Katherine Demuth

18 Phonology as Computation 596
John Coleman

19 Using Psychological Realism to Advance Phonological Theory 631
Matthew Goldrick

20 Learning and Learnability in Phonology 661
Adam Albright and Bruce Hayes

21 Sign Language Phonology 691
Diane Brentari

22 Language Games 722
Bert Vaux

23 Loanword Adaptation: From Lessons Learned to Findings 751
Carole Paradis and Darlene LaCharité

References 779

Index 914

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This new edition of The Handbook of Phonological Theory is remarkably complete in its scope and coverage of phonological insights and issues. It provides the linguistic community with an indispensable research tool for years to come, and a rich source of information for new generations of linguists.” - Geert Booij, Professor of Linguistics, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

“This is a timely volume. A wonderful collection of papers provides the most up-to-date view of phonological research, reflecting recent extension into studies on phonetics, variation and computation.”  - Jongho Jun, Seoul National University

“What is particularly unique and valuable about this volume is not just the combination of the retrospective approach with the array of topics covered but also the strong empirical grounding found in most chapters.” – Diana Archangeli, University of Arizona

Editorial Reviews

A detailed examination of the current state of phonological theory. In a series of essays on topics as varied as underspecification theory, prosodic morphology, and syllable structure, 38 phonologists offer a critical survey of the ideas that lie behind the research in this area of linguistics. In all cases, the contributions are written by leading workers in the areas they discuss, and in many cases they are the first published expositions of new perspectives which have already begun to shape the climate of research in the field. Topics discussed include: phonological theory, the organization of phonological grammar, and specific languages and language families that have been particularly important in recent phonological theory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"The Handbook is an especially valuable book, and one that will be used by phonologists for some years to come." Karen Rice, University of Toronto

"The desideratum of the year for linguists specializing in the arcane game of phonology. The contributors, Paul Kiparsky, John Ohala, Donca Steriada and many more, represent the foremost names in the field." Times Literary Supplement

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