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The Oxford History of Phonology
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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The Oxford History of Phonology
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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198796800
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 06/24/2022
Pages: 872
Product dimensions: 9.72(w) x 6.98(h) x 2.13(d)

About the Author

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 HulstPart I: Early insights in phonology2. Writing systems, Richard Sproat3. Pāṇini, Paul Kiparsky4. The East Asian tradition, San Duanmu and Haruo Kubozono5. The taṣrīf in the medieval Arabic grammatical tradition, Georges Bohas and Jean Lowenstamm6. The Greco-Roman tradition, Ranjan Sen7. Phonological phrasing: Approaches to grouping at lower levels of the prosodic hierarchy, Aditi Lahiri and Frans Plank8. Nineteeth-century historical linguists' contributions to phonology, Joseph SalmonsPart II: The founders of phonology9. The Kazan School: Jan Baudouin de Courtenay and Mikolaj Kruszewski, Joanna Radwanska-Williams10. Saussure and structural phonology, John E. Joseph11. The Prague School: Nikolai Trubetzkoy and Roman Jakobson, Edwin L. Battistella12. John R. Firth and the London School, Elena Battaner Moro and Richard Ogden13. Boas—Sapir—Bloomfield: The synchronicization of phonology in American linguistics, Michael Silverstein14. The (early) history of sign language phonology, Harry van der HulstPart III: Mid twentieth-century developments in phonology15. Phonology in the Soviet Union, Pavel Iosad16. Phonology in Glossematics in Northern and Western Europe, Hans Basbøll17. Mid-century American phonology: The post-Bloomfieldians, D. Robert Ladd18. Developments leading toward generative phonology, B. Elan Dresher and Daniel Currie Hall19. The Sound Pattern of English and early generative phonology, Michael J. KenstowiczPart IV: Phonology after SPE20. Phonological derivation in early generative phonology, Michael J. Kenstowicz and Charles W. Kisseberth21. Representations in generative phonology in the 1970s and 1980s, Charles W. Kisseberth22. The interaction between phonology and morphosyntax in generative grammar, Tobias Scheer23. Dependency Phonology, Jørgen Staun24. Government Phonology in historical perspective, Nancy A. Ritter25. Historical notes on constraint-and-repair approaches, Andrea Calabrese26. Optimality Theory, Marc van Oostendorp27. The study of variation, Josef FruehwaldPart V: New methods and approaches28. Phonetic explanation in phonology, John Kingston29. Corpora and phonological analysis, Kathleen Currie Hall30. More than seventy years of probabilistic phonology, Janet B. Pierrehumbert31. Phonological theory and computational modelling, Jane Chandlee and Adam Jardine32. Learnability in phonology, Jeffrey Heinz and Jonathan Rawski33. Phonology and evolution, Bart de Boer
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