The Oxford History of Phonology

by Dresher, B. Elan; van der Hulst, Harry

• ISBN13: 9780198796800
• ISBN10: 0198796803
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192516893
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-06-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume is the first to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive history of phonology from the earliest known examples of phonological thinking, through the rise of phonology as a field in the twentieth century, and up to the most recent advances. The volume is divided into five parts. Part I offers an account of writing systems along with chapters exploring the great ancient and medieval intellectual traditions of phonological thought that form the foundation of later thinking and continue to enrich phonological theory. Chapters in Part II describe the important schools and individuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who shaped phonology as an organized scientific field. Part III examines mid-twentieth century developments in phonology in the Soviet Union, Northern and Western Europe, and North America; it continues with precursors to generative grammar, and culminates in a chapter on Chomsky and Halle's The Sound Pattern of English (SPE). Part IV then shows how phonological theorists responded to SPE with respect to derivations, representations, and phonology-morphology interaction. Theories discussed include Dependency Phonology, Government Phonology, Constraint-and-Repair theories, and Optimality Theory. The part ends with a chapter on the study of variation. Finally, chapters in Part V look at new methods and approaches, covering phonetic explanation, corpora and phonological analysis, probabilistic phonology, computational modelling, models of phonological learning, and the evolution of phonology. This in-depth exploration of the history of phonology provides new perspectives on where phonology has been and sheds light on where it could go next.

Author Biography

B. Elan Dresher, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Toronto,Harry van der Hulst, Professor of Linguistics, University of Connecticut

B. Elan Dresher is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He has published on phonological theory, learnability, historical linguistics, West Germanic and Biblical Hebrew phonology and prosody, and the history of phonology. He is the author of Old English and the Theory of
Phonology (1985/2019) and The Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology (2009). His research has been published in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Language, Linguistic Variation, Annual Review of Linguistics, and Transactions of the Philological Society, and in edited volumes from OUP and
Wiley-Blackwell.


Harry van der Hulst is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. His research interests include stress, syllabic structure, segmental structure, sign language, gesture, language evolution, and phonological acquisition. His many books include Word Stress: Theoretical and Typological
Issues (CUP, 2014), Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony: A Representational Account (OUP, 2018), and Principles of Radical CV Phonology: A Theory of Segmental and Syllabic Structure (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal The Linguistic Review and co-editor of the Mouton de
Gruyter series 'Studies in Generative Grammar'.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Leading ideas in phonology, B. Elan Dresher and Harry van der Hulst
Part I: Early insights in phonology
2. Writing systems, Richard Sproat
3. Panini, Paul Kiparsky
4. The East Asian tradition, San Duanmu and Haruo Kubozono
5. The tasrif in the medieval Arabic grammatical tradition, Georges Bohas and Jean Lowenstamm
6. The Greco-Roman tradition, Ranjan Sen
7. Phonological phrasing: Approaches to grouping at lower levels of the prosodic hierarchy, Aditi Lahiri and Frans Plank
8. Nineteeth-century historical linguists' contributions to phonology, Joseph Salmons
Part II: The founders of phonology
9. The Kazan School: Jan Baudouin de Courtenay and Mikolaj Kruszewski, Joanna Radwanska-Williams
10. Saussure and structural phonology, John E. Joseph
11. The Prague School: Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Roman Jakobson, Edwin L. Battistella
12. John R. Firth and the London School, Elena Battaner Moro and Richard Ogden
13. Boas-Sapir-Bloomfield: The synchronization of phonology in American linguistics, Michael Silverstein
14. The (early) history of sign language phonology, Harry van der Hulst
Part III: Mid twentieth-century developments in phonology
15. Phonology in the Soviet Union, Pavel Iosad
16. Developments in Northern and Western Europe: Glossematics and beyond, Hans Basbøll
17. Mid-century American phonology: The post-Bloomfieldians, D. Robert Ladd
18. Developments leading toward generative phonology, B. Elan Dresher and Daniel Currie Hall
19. The Sound Pattern of English and early generative phonology, Michael J. Kenstowicz
Part IV: Phonology after SPE
20. Phonological derivation in early generative phonology, Michael J. Kenstowicz and Charles W. Kisseberth
21. Representations in generative phonology in the 1970s and 1980s, Charles W. Kisseberth
22. Generative phonology: The interaction between phonology and morpho-syntax, Tobias Scheer
23. Dependency Phonology, Jørgen Staun
24. Government Phonology in historical perspective, Nancy A. Ritter
25. Historical notes on constraint-and-repair approaches, Andrea Calabrese
26. Optimality Theory, Marc van Oostendorp
27. The study of variation, Josef Fruehwald
Part V: New methods and approaches
28. Phonetic explanation in phonology, John Kingston
29. Corpora and phonological analysis, Kathleen Currie Hall
30. Seventy years of probabilistic phonology, Janet B. Pierrehumbert
31. Phonological theory and computational modelling, Jane Chandlee and Adam Jardine
32. Learnability in phonology, Jeffrey Heinz and Jonathan Rawski
33. Phonology and evolution, Bart de Boer