Book description
Accessible, succinct, and including numerous student-friendly features,
this introductory textbook offers an exceptional foundation to the field
for those who are coming to it for the first time.
- Provides an ideal first course book in phonology, written by a
renowned phonologist
- Developed and tested in the classroom through years of experience
and use
- Emphasizes analysis of phonological data, placing this in its
scientific context, and explains the relevant methodology
- Guides students through the larger questions of what phonological
patterns reveal about language
- Includes numerous course-friendly features, including multi-part
exercises and annotated suggestions for further reading at the end
of each chapter
Bruce Hayes
is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los
Angeles. He has published extensively in books and journals, and is the
author of
Metrical Stress Theory: Principles and Case Studies
(1995), and editor (with Robert Kirchner and Donca Steriade) of
Phonetically-Based Phonology
(2004). His website is available at: www. linguistics. ucla.
edu/people/hayes.
