This book is designed to provide students of phonology with an accessible introduction to the phonological architecture of words. It offers a thorough discussion of the basic building blocks of phonology--in particular features, sounds, syllables and feet--and deals with a range of different theories about these units. The book provides a more detailed analysis of this subject than previously available in introductory textbooks and is an invaluable and indispensable first step toward understanding the major theoretical issues in modern phonology at the word level.
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This book is designed to provide students of phonology with an accessible introduction to the phonological architecture of words. It offers a thorough discussion of the basic building blocks of phonology - in particular features, sounds, syllables and feet--and deals with a range of different theories about these units. The book provides a more detailed analysis of this subject than previously available in introductory textbooks and is an invaluable and indispensable first step towards understanding the major theoretical issues in modern phonology at the word level.
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The fact that words, or more generally stretches of speech, can be divided up into individual segments, or speech-sounds, is familiar to speakers of languages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sonority sequencing generalisation, lengthy symphony, mora theory, articulator theory, onset licensing, government phonology, superheavy syllable, characterising place, rhyme formation, syllabic organisation, underspecification theory, rhyme node, empty nucleus, core syllable, extrasyllabic consonant, liaison consonants, redundancy constraints, nasal place assimilation, branching nucleus, skeletal positions, skeletal tier, foot accent, sonority distance, dependency phonology, sonorant consonant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Middle English, Modern English, Scots English, Cairene Arabic, High Vowel Deletion, Optimality Theory, Redundancy Rule Ordering Constraint New!
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The fact that words, or more generally stretches of speech, can be divided up into individual segments, or speech-sounds, is familiar to speakers of languages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sonority sequencing generalisation, lengthy symphony, mora theory, articulator theory, onset licensing, government phonology, superheavy syllable, characterising place, rhyme formation, syllabic organisation, underspecification theory, rhyme node, empty nucleus, core syllable, extrasyllabic consonant, liaison consonants, redundancy constraints, nasal place assimilation, branching nucleus, skeletal positions, skeletal tier, foot accent, sonority distance, dependency phonology, sonorant consonant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Middle English, Modern English, Scots English, Cairene Arabic, High Vowel Deletion, Optimality Theory, Redundancy Rule Ordering Constraint New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Optimality Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Rene Kager on 6 pages
- The Nez Perce (First Book) by Madelyn Klein Anderson on page 114, and Back Matter
- Lexical Semantics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by D. A. Cruse in Front Matter
- Logic in Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Jens Allwood in Front Matter
- Studies in Lexical Phonology, Volume 4 (Phonetics and Phonology) by Sharon Hargus in Back Matter
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- Practical Phonetics and Phonology: A Resource Book for Students (Routledge English Language Introductions) by Beverley Collins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon by Jean Aitchison in Back Matter
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