The Blackwell Companion to Phonology

by van Oostendorp, Marc; Ewen, Colin J.; Hume, Elizabeth V.; Rice, Keren

• ISBN13: 9781444335262
• ISBN10: 144433526X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2011-04-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Available online or as a five-volume print set, The Blackwell Companion to Phonology is a major reference work drawing together 124 new contributions from leading international scholars in the field.  It will be indispensable to students and researchers in the field for years to come.

Key Features:  

• Full explorations of all the most important ideas and key developments in the field
• Documents major insights into human language gathered by phonologists in past decades; highlights interdisciplinary connections, such as the social and computational sciences; and examines statistical and experimental techniques
• Offers an overview of theoretical positions and ongoing debates within phonology at the beginning of the twenty-first century
• An extensive reference work based on the best and most recent scholarly research – ideal for advanced undergraduates through to faculty and researchers
• Publishing simultaneously in print and online; visit www.companiontophonology.com for full details

Additional features of the online edition (ISBN: 978-1-4443-3526-2):

• Powerful searching, browsing, and cross-referencing capabilities, including Open URL linking, with all entries classified by key topic, subject, place, people, and period
• For those institutions already subscribing to Blackwell Reference Online, it offers fully integrated and searchable content with the comprehensive Handbooks in Linguistics series

Author Biography

MARC VAN OOSTENDORP is Senior Researcher at the Department of Variationist Linguistics at the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Phonological Microvariation at the University of Leiden. He holds an MA in Computational Linguistics and a PhD from Tilburg University.

COLIN J. EWEN is Professor and Chair of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Leiden. He holds an MA in English Language and Linguistics and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He is editor (with Ellen Kaisse) of the journal Phonology.

ELIZABETH HUME is Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University. She holds a PhD and MA in linguistics from Cornell University, an MA in French and Social Psychology of Language from McMaster University, and a BA in French from Université Laval.

KEREN RICE is University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Linguistics and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Toronto. She holds an MA and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Toronto and a BA in Linguistics from Cornell University.

Table of Contents

1: General Issues and Segmental Phonology.

2: Suprasegmental and Prosodic Phonology.

3: Phonological Processes.

4: Phonological Interfaces.

5: Phonology Across Languages.