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Introducing Phonetics and Phonology

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ISBN-10: 144410988X

ISBN-13: 9781444109887

Edition: 3rd 2010 (Revised)

Authors: Mike Davenport, S. J. Hannahs

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Book details

List price: $20.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Hodder Education
Publication date: 7/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

List of tables
List of figures
Preface
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Introduction
Phonetics and phonology
The generative enterprise
Further reading
Introduction to articulatory phonetics
Overview
Speech sound classification
Supra-segraental structure
Further reading
Exercises
Consonants
Stops
Affricates
Fricatives
Nasals
Liquids
Glides
An inventory of English consonants
Further reading
Exercises
Vowels
Vowel classification
The vowel space and Cardinal Vowels
Further classifications
The vowels of English
Some vowel systems of English
Further reading
Exercises
Acoustic phonetics
Fundamentals
Speech sounds
Cross-linguistic values
Further reading
Exercises
Above the segment
The syllable
Stress
Tone and intonation
Further reading
Exercises
Features
Segmental composition
Phonetic vs. phonological features
Charting the features
Conclusion
Further reading
Exercises
Phonemic analysis
Sounds that are the same but different
Finding phonemes and allophones
Linking levels: rules
Choosing the underlying form
Summary
Further reading
Exercises
Phonological alternations, processes and rules
Alternations vs. processes vs. rules
Alternation types
Formal rules and rule writing
Overview of phonological operations and rules
Summary
Further reading
Exercises
Phonological structure
The need for richer phonological representation
Segment internal structure: feature geometry, underspecification and unary features
Autosegmental phonology
Conclusion
Further reading
Exercises
Derivational analysis
The aims of analysis
A derivational analysis of English noun plural formatio
Extrinsic vs. intrinsic rule ordering
Evaluating competing analyses: evidence, economy and plausibility
Conclusion
Further reading
Exercises
Constraint-based analysis
Introduction to optimality theory
The aims of analysis
Modelling phonological processes in OT
English noun plural formation: an OT account
Competing analyses
Conclusion
Further reading
Exercises
Constraining the model
Constraining derivational phonology: abstractness
Constraining the power of the phonological component
Constraining the power of OT
Conclusion
Further reading
Glossary
References
Subject index
Varieties of English index
Language index