Phonology: An Introduction to Basic Concepts

Abstract

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.