Roca, Iggy.

A course in phonology / Iggy Roca and Wyn Johnson. - Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1999. - xxi, 725 p. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [665]-682) and indexes.

Preface. Acknowledgements. Readings Logistics. Key to Symbols. Part I: Phonetics and Phonology: 1. How Are Sounds Made? The Production of Obstruents. 2. Introducing Phonology. Assimilation. 3. Sonorant Consonants. 4. Natural Classes of Sounds: Distinctive Features. 5. Vowel Sounds: Cardinal Vowels. 6. Phonological Processes Involving Vowel Features. 7. The Vowels of English. 8. The Timing Tier. The Great Vowel Shift. Part II: Suprasegmental Structure: 9. The Syllable. 10. Syllable Complexity: English Phonotactics. 11. The Phenomenon of Stress: Rhythm. 12. Metrical Principles and Parameters. 13. Syllable Weight. Further Metrical Machinery. 14. Tonal Phonology. Part III: Advanced Theory: 15. Modes of Rule Application. The Cycle. 16. Domains of Rule Application: Lexical and Prosodic Phonology. 17. Aspects of Lexical Representations: Underspecification, Markedness and Feature Geometry. 18. Rules and Derivations. 19. Constraints: Optimality Theory. 20. Looking Back and Moving On. References. Glossary. Index of Languages. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.

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Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.
English language--Phonology.

P217 / .R58 1999

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