
- 262 pages
- English
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Understanding Phonology
About this book
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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Yes, you can access Understanding Phonology by Carlos Gussenhoven,Haike Jacobs in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Structures in languages
- 2 The production of speech
- 3 Some typology: sameness and difference
- 4 The varying shapes of sounds and words
- 5 A system of distinctive features
- 6 Making the form fit: serial rules or violable constraints?
- 7 Lexical phonology, postlexical phonology and phonetic implementation
- 8 Between the segment and the syllable
- 9 Tones
- 10 Word stress
- 11 Phonology above the word
- References
- Language index
- Subject Index