About this book
Acknowledgments
A note on languages
List of abbreviations
1 What is phonology?
1.1 Concerns of phonology
1.2 Phonetics - what is physical sound?
1.3 The symbolic representation of speech
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
2 Phonetic transcriptions
2.1 Vowels: their symbols and properties
2.2 Consonants: their symbols and properties

About this book
Acknowledgments
A note on languages
List of abbreviations
1 What is phonology?
1.1 Concerns of phonology
1.2 Phonetics - what is physical sound?
1.3 The symbolic representation of speech
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
2 Phonetic transcriptions
2.1 Vowels: their symbols and properties
2.2 Consonants: their symbols and properties
2.3 IPA symbols
2.4 Illustrations with English transcription
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
3 Allophonic relations
3.1 English consonantal allophones
3.2 Allophony in other languages
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
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
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
5 Interacting processes
5.1 Separating the effects of different rules
5.2 Different effects of rule ordering
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
6 Feature theory
6.1 Scientific questions about speech sounds
6.2 Distinctive feature theory
6.3 Features and classes of segments
6.4 Possible phonemes and rules - an answer
6.5 The formulation of phonological rules
6.6 Changing the theory
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
7 Doing an analysis
7.1 Yawelmani
7.2 Hehe
7.3 Icelandic
7.4 Modern Hebrew
7.5 Japanese
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
8 Phonological typology and naturalness
8.1 Inventories
8.2 Segmental processes
8.3 Prosodically based processes
8.4 Why do things happen?
Summary
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
9 Abstractness and psychological reality
9.1 Why limit abstractness?
9.2 Independent evidence: historical restructuring
9.3 Well-motivated abstractness
9.4 Grammar-external evidence for abstractness
9.5 How abstract is phonology?
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
10 Nonlinear representations
10.1 The autosegmental theory of tone: the beginnings ofchange
10.2 Extension to the segmental domain
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
Glossary
References
Index of languages
General Index