Bruce Hayes 
Introductory Phonology 

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

Tabela de Conteúdo

Preface.

1. Phonetics.

2. Phonemic analysis.

3. More on phonemes.

4. Features.

5. Morphology.

6. Phonological alternation I.

7. Phonological alternation II.

8. Morphophonemic analysis.

9. Productivity.

10. The role of morphology and syntax.

11. Diachrony and synchrony.

12. Abstractness.

13. Syllables.

14. Stress, stress rules, and syllable weight.

15. Tone and intonation.

Appendix: On phonology problems

Sobre o autor

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