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    Understanding Phonology

    Understanding Phonology by Gussenhoven, Carlos; Jacobs, Haike;

    Series: Understanding Language;

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    • Edition number 5
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 31 January 2025

    • ISBN 9781032498416
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages258 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 480 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 58 Illustrations, black & white; 58 Line drawings, black & white; 24 Tables, black & white
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    Understanding Phonology, Fifth Edition, provides a clear, accessible and broad introduction to phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it provides a comprehensive account of phonological topics like segmental contrasts; syllables and moras; quantity; tone and intonation; word stress; and prosodic constituent structure.

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    Understanding Phonology, Fifth Edition, provides a clear, accessible and broad introduction to phonology. Introducing the basic concepts, it provides a comprehensive account of phonological topics like segmental contrasts, syllables and moras, quantity, tone and intonation, word stress, and prosodic constituent structure. This new edition has been streamlined to match widely applied course requirements. Key features include:



    • Reorganized chapters to introduce key concepts earlier and increase accessibility for new students.

    • New developments and an updated bibliography.

    • Illustrations from languages spoken all over the planet, including Arabic, Central Alaskan Yupik, Hawaiian, Mandarin, French, Yabem, Yanyuwa, Yine and Zulu.

    • Over 100 exercises to test understanding.

    • A consistent illustration of Optimality Theory as applied to word stress.

    • Updated online resources for students and instructors, including audio files, a key to questions, teaching goals and PowerPoint slides.

    Understanding Phonology is essential reading for students coming to this topic for the first time.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface


    Acknowledgements


    The IPA Chart


     


    1. Structures in languages


    1.1 Introduction


    1.2 Awareness of linguistic structure


    1.3 Language diversity


    1.4 What linguists do


    1.4.1 Language-external evidence


    1.4.2 Language-internal evidence


    1.5 Morphosyntactic structure


    1.5.1 Morphemes and words


    1.5.2 Syntax: phrases, clauses and sentences


    1.5.3 Some mismatches between phonology and morphosyntax in English


    1.6 Changing sounds


    1.7 Conclusion


     


    2. The production of speech


    2.1 Introduction


    2.2 The lungs and the larynx


    2.2.1 The vocal folds: the open and vibrating glottis


    2.2.2 Devoicing and aspiration


    2.2.3 Special types of phonation


    2.2.4 Pitch


    2.2.5 The glottal stop


    2.3 The vocal tract


    2.3.1 The pharynx


    2.3.2 The nasal cavity


    2.3.3 The mouth


    2.4 Vowels


    2.4.1 Monophthongs


    2.4.2 Diphthongs


    2.4.3 Nasalization


    2.5 Consonants


    2.5.1 Places of articulation


    2.5.2 Types of constriction


    2.6 Segmental durations


    2.7 Complex consonants


    2.7.1 Secondary articulations


    2.7.2 Double articulations


    2.7.3 Manner-contour consonants


    2.8 Nonpulmonic consonants


    2.9 Conclusion


     


    3. Some typology: sameness and difference


    3.1 Introduction


    3.2 Varying complexity


    3.3 Universals and implicational relations


    3.3.1 Plain or special?


    3.3.2 Avoiding complexity


    3.3.3 A word of caution


    3.3.4 Speech ergonomics


    3.3.5 System gaps


    3.4 Cultural and ambient factors in the development of sound systems


    3.5 Conclusion


     


    4. The varying shapes of sounds and words


    4.1 Introduction


    4.2 Allophonic variation


    4.3 Loanword adaptation


    4.3.1 The process of nativization


    4.4 Morpheme alternants


    4.5 The underlying form


    4.5.1 Choosing the underlying form


    4.5.2 Grammars vs ?dictionaries?


    4.6 Conclusion


     


    5. A system of distinctive features


    5.1 Introduction


    5.2 Features for consonants


    5.2.1 Major class features


    5.2.2 Laryngeal features


    5.2.3 Manner features


    5.2.4 Place of articulation features


    5.3 Features for vowels


    5.4 Redundant vs contrastive features


    5.5 Complex segments


    5.6 Conclusion


     


    6. Making the form fit: serial rules or violable constraints?


    6.1 Introduction


    6.2 Serial rule application


    6.2.1 Rule formats


    6.2.2 Serial rule ordering


    6.3 Constraints


    6.3.1 Tableaux


    6.3.2 OT and loanwords


    6.4 Serial rules or ranked constraints?


    6.5 Conclusion


     


    7. Lexical phonology, postlexical phonology and phonetic implementation


    7.1 Introduction


    7.2 Defining an intermediate level of representation


    7.3 Lexical Phonology


    7.3.1 Reference to morphological labels


    7.3.2 Exceptions


    7.3.3 Structure preservation


    7.3.4 Native-speaker intuitions


    7.3.5 Application across word boundaries


    7.3.6 Lexical rules apply before postlexical rules


    7.4 Reference to phonological information in the lexicon


    7.5 Beyond surface representations


    7.5.1 Models of implementation


    7.5.2 Deciding between phonology and phonetic implementation


    7.6 Conclusion


     


    8. Between the segment and the syllable


    8.1 Introduction


    8.2 Syllabification and the Maximum Onset Principle


    8.2.1 The Sonority Profile


    8.3 Expanding the representations: hierarchies and autosegments


    8.3.1 Skeletal slots


    8.3.2 Autosegments


    8.3.3 Unfilled and unassociated slots


    8.3.4 Compensatory lengthening


    8.4 Moras


    8.5 Syllable-based generalizations


    8.6 Post-MOP syllabification rules


    8.7 Conclusion


     


    9. Tones


    9.1 Introduction


    9.2 The inadequacy of a linear model


    9.3 Word melodies


    9.3.1 Language-specific association


    9.4 Tone stability


    9.5 Tonal morphemes


    9.6 Accent


    9.7 The phonetic implementation of tone


    9.7.1 The vertical dimension: scaling


    9.7.2 The horizontal dimension: phonetic alignment


    9.8 Not by f0 alone


    9.8.1 Voice quality


    9.8.2 f0 perturbations and tone distribution


    9.9 Conclusion


     


    10. Word stress


    10.1 Introduction


    10.2 Primary stress, secondary stress and no stress in English


    10.3 Basic dimensions of foot structures


    10.3.1 Foot type


    10.3.2 Aligning words and feet


    10.4 Syllable weight


    10.4.1 Uneven feet?


    10.5 Stress clash


    10.6 Unbounded systems


    10.7 The roles of morphology


    10.8 Interactions of stress with segments and tones


    10.8.2 H-tones attracting stress


    10.9 Conclusion


     


    11. Phonology above the word


    11.1 Introduction


    11.2 Generalizations involving prosodic constituents


    11.3 The Strict Layer Hypothesis


    11.4 Factors determining prosodic phrasing


    11.5 Prosody above the foot


    11.5.1 The prosodic word


    11.5.2 The phonological phrase


    11.5.3 The intonation phrase


    11.5.4 The phonological utterance


    11.6 Deriving prosodic constituents


    11.6.1 Clitics


    11.6.2 The syntactic residue


    11.7 Conclusion


     


    References


    Language Index


    Subject Index

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