A Course in Phonology [Paperback]

This textbook presupposes no knowledge of phonology or phonetics, and takes the learner step by step through the various stages and areas of the discipline without sacrificing rigor or breadth of coverage. The extraordinary clarity of explanation by the authors make this book readily understood by anyone with a keen interest in phonology.

Preface xv

Acknowledgements xvii

Reading Logistics xviii

Key to Symbols xx

Part I: Phonetics and Phonology 1

1 How Are Sounds Made? The Production of Obstruents 3

1 Speech Sounds 3

2 Fricatives: Place and Manner of Articulation 6

3 Phonetic Transcription 7

4 A Hissing Fricative 9

5 A Fricative in the Back of the Mouth 11

6 A Laryngeal Fricative 14

7 Voice 16

8 The Stop Gesture 19

9 More Stops 20

10 Still More Fricatives 23

11 Affricates 25

12 Summing Up 26

Key Questions 29

Further Practice 29

2 Introducing Phonology: Assimilation 31

1 On How Bilabial Stops Become Labiodental 31

2 Total Place Assimilation in Stops 34

3 Voice Assimilation 38

4 The Organization of Language 41

5 Basic and Derived Forms 45

6 The Formalization of Rules 49

7 Derivations 52

8 Phonetics and Phonology 54

Key Questions 56

Further Practice 57

3 Sonorant Consonants 58

1 General Properties of Sonorants 59

2 Nasality 60

3 The Universal Nasal 63<lã.