Lass, Roger.

Phonology : an introduction to basic concepts / Roger Lass. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984. - xix, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge textbooks in linguistics .

Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. 343-351.

Preface; To the student; 1. Preliminaries: what is phonology? and some related matters; 2. Foundations: the phoneme concept; 3. Opposition, neutralization, features; 4. Interfaces: morphophonemic alternations and sandhi; 5. 'Ultimate constituents', I: binary features; 6. 'Ultimate constituents', II: non-binary features and internal segment structure; 7. Phonological systems; 8. Phonological processes; 9. The limits of abstraction: generative phonology; 10. Beyond the segment: prosodies, syllables, and quantity; 11. Dependency relations; 12. Non-static phonology: connected speech and variation; 13. Phonological change; Appendix; References; General index; Index of names.


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Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

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