The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory

ISBN-13: 9781138025813 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 646 str.

S. J. Hannahs; Anna Bosch

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The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory provides a comprehensive overview of the major contemporary approaches to phonology. Phonology is frequently defined as the systematic organisation of the sounds of human language. For some, this includes aspects of both the surface phonetics together with systematic structural properties of the sound system; for others, phonology is seen as distinct from, and autonomous from, phonetics. The Routledge Handbook of Phonology Theory will survey the differing ways in which phonology is viewed and will focus on current approaches to phonology. Divided into two parts, this handbook:

• Covers the six major conceptual frameworks within phonology including: Rule-based Phonology; Optimality Theory; Government phonology; Declarative phonology; Exemplar theory; and Systemic phonology;
• Foregrounds the central issue of the relationship between phonetics and phonology;
• Features chapters written by leading academics from around the world.

The Routledge Handbook of Phonology Theory is an authoritative and theory-neutral survey of this key field in linguistics, and is essential reading for students studying Phonology.

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S. J. Hannahs is a reader in linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is on the advisory board of the Linguist List and annual phonology conferences the Manchester Phonology Meeting and the Old World Conference on Phonology.

Anna R. K. Bosch is an Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Kentucky, USA.