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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.
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This volume is the first to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive history of phonology, spanning the history of phonological thought from Panini to the latest advances in computational modelling and learning. This in-depth exploration provides new perspectives on where phonology has been and sheds light on where it could go next
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1: B. Elan Dresher and Harry van der Hulst: Introduction: Leading ideas in phonology Part I: Early insights in phonology 2: Richard Sproat: Writing systems 3: Paul Kiparsky: P=a.nini 4: San Duanmu and Haruo Kubozono: The East Asian tradition 5: Georges Bohas and Jean Lowenstamm: The ta.sr=if in the medieval Arabic grammatical tradition 6: Ranjan Sen: The Greco-Roman tradition 7: Aditi Lahiri and Frans Plank: Phonological phrasing: Approaches to grouping at lower levels of the prosodic hierarchy 8: Joseph Salmons: Nineteeth-century historical linguists' contributions to phonology Part II: The founders of phonology 9: Joanna Radwanska-Williams: The Kazan School: Jan Baudouin de Courtenay and Mikolaj Kruszewski 10: John E. Joseph: Saussure and structural phonology 11: Edwin L. Battistella: The Prague School: Nikolai Trubetzkoy and Roman Jakobson 12: Elena Battaner Moro and Richard Ogden: John R. Firth and the London School 13: Michael Silverstein: BoasDLSapirDLBloomfield: The synchronicization of phonology in American linguistics 14: Harry van der Hulst: The (early) history of sign language phonology Part III: Mid twentieth-century developments in phonology 15: Pavel Iosad: Phonology in the Soviet Union 16: Hans Basbøll: Phonology in Glossematics in Northern and Western Europe 17: D. Robert Ladd: Mid-century American phonology: The post-Bloomfieldians 18: B. Elan Dresher and Daniel Currie Hall: Developments leading toward generative phonology 19: Michael J. Kenstowicz: The Sound Pattern of English and early generative phonology Part IV: Phonology after SPE 20: Michael J. Kenstowicz and Charles W. Kisseberth: Phonological derivation in early generative phonology 21: Charles W. Kisseberth: Representations in generative phonology in the 1970s and 1980s 22: Tobias Scheer: The interaction between phonology and morphosyntax in generative grammar 23: Jørgen Staun: Dependency Phonology 24: Nancy A. Ritter: Government Phonology in historical perspective 25: Andrea Calabrese: Historical notes on constraint-and-repair approaches 26: Marc van Oostendorp: Optimality Theory 27: Josef Fruehwald: The study of variation Part V: New methods and approaches 28: John Kingston: Phonetic explanation in phonology 29: Kathleen Currie Hall: Corpora and phonological analysis 30: Janet B. Pierrehumbert: More than seventy years of probabilistic phonology 31: Jane Chandlee and Adam Jardine: Phonological theory and computational modelling 32: Jeffrey Heinz and Jonathan Rawski: Learnability in phonology 33: Bart de Boer: Phonology and evolution
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The first comprehensive account of the history of phonology Explores a range of perspectives and theoretical approaches Focuses on the continuity of fundamental ideas that have shaped the history of the discipline
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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'.
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The first comprehensive account of the history of phonology Explores a range of perspectives and theoretical approaches Focuses on the continuity of fundamental ideas that have shaped the history of the discipline
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ISBN
9780198796800
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
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1668 gr
Høyde
280 mm
Bredde
180 mm
Dybde
54 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
872

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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'.