The Handbook of Phonological Theory
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
2. Edition October 2011
968 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
The Handbook of Phonological Theory offers a unique and detailed examination of phonology and the transformations that have taken place in the fifteen years since the publication of the first edition. Comprised almost entirely of material new to this edition, this Handbook consciously builds upon its previous edition, using it as a foundation to explore the current shape of the field and the questions that drive ongoing research. Written by an international team of phonologists, each of the 28 chapters investigates and assesses key issues in the field, including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation.
The Handbook of Phonological Theory, Second Edition, is an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology. Revised from the ground up, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chapters.
* Offers new and unique contributions reflecting the advances in phonological theory since publication of the first edition in 1995
* Addresses the important questions in the field including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation, and assesses the findings and accomplishments in these domains
* Features contributions by an international team of leading phonologists
* Along with the first edition, currently available in paperback, forms the most complete and current look at the subject in print
2. Opacity and ordering
3. The Interaction Between Morphology And Phonology
4. Quantity
5. Stress Systems
6. The Syllable
7. Tone
8. Harmony Systems
9. Contrast Reduction
10. Diachronic Explanations of Sound Patterns
11. Phonetics in Phonology
12. Corpora and Exemplars in Phonology
13. The Place of Variation in Phonological Theory
14. The Syntax-Phonology Interface
15. Intonation
16. Dependency-Based Phonologies
17. The Acquisition of Phonology
18. Phonology as Computation
19. Using Psychological Realism to Advance Phonological Theory
20. Learning and Learnability in Phonology
21. Sign Language Phonology
22. Language Games
23. Loanword Adaptation
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 (forthcoming).
Alan 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.
