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• Coverpage
• Introducing Phonology
• Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• About this book
• Acknowledgments
• A note on languages
• List of abbreviations
• 1 What is phonology?
• 1.1 Phonetics – the manifestation of language sound
• 1.2 Phonology: the symbolic perspective on sound
• Summary
• Exercises
• Suggestions for further reading
• 2 Allophonic relations
• 2.1 English consonantal allophones
• 2.2 Allophony in other languages
• Summary
• Exercises
• Suggestions for further reading
• 3 Feature theory
• 3.1 Scientific questions about speech sounds
• 3.2 Distinctive feature theory
• 3.3 Features and classes of segments
• 3.4 Possible phonemes and rules – an answer
• 3.5 The formulation of phonological rules
• 3.6 Changing the theory
• Summary
• Exercises
• Suggestions for further reading
• 4 Underlying representations
• 4.1 The importance of correct underlying forms
• 4.2 Refining the concept of underlying form
• 4.3 Finding the underlying form
• 4.4 Practice at problem solving
• 4.5 Underlying forms and sentence-level phonology
• 4.6 Underlying forms and multiple columns in the paradigm
• Summary
• Exercises
• Suggestions for further reading
• 5 Interacting processes
• 5.1 Separating the effects of different rules
• 5.2 Different effects of rule ordering
• Summary
• Exercises
• Suggestions for further reading
• 6 Doing an analysis
• 6.1 Yawelmani
• 6.2 Hehe
• 6.3 Fore
• 6.4 Modern Hebrew
• 6.5 Japanese
• Summary
• Exercises
• Suggestions for further reading
• 7 Phonological typology and naturalness
• 7.1 Inventories
• 7.2 Segmental processes
• 7.3 Prosodically based processes
• 7.4 Why do things happen?
• Summary
• Suggestions for further reading
• 8 Abstractness and psychological reality
• 8.1 Why limit abstractness?
• 8.2 Independent evidence: historical restructuring
• 8.3 Well-motivated abstractness
• 8.4 Grammar-external evidence for abstractness
• 8.5 How abstract is phonology?
• Exercises
• Suggestions for further reading
• 9 Nonlinear representations
• 9.1 The autosegmental theory of tone: the beginnings of a change
• 9.2 Extension to the segmental domain
• 9.3 Suprasegmental structure
• Summary
• Exercises
• Suggestions for further reading
• Glossary
• References
• Index of languages
• General index