Author : Peter Hawkins
Release : 2018-10-03
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 589/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Introducing Phonology by : Peter Hawkins
Download or read book Introducing Phonology written by Peter Hawkins. This book was released on 2018-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984. This study is designed as an introductory course in phonology for linguistics students. Like phonology itself, the book is divided into two main parts, the first dealing with segmental phonology, and the second with suprasegmental aspects, including stress, rhythm and intonation. Finally, there is a section on applied phonology, including dialects, historical change and language acquisition, all areas which provide the raw material for theoretical phonology. While the author is sympathetic to orthodox generative phonology, he also offers a critique of it, and argues that theoretical phonology should be concerned with the fundamental phonological processes of language-processes which are found repeatedly in different languages at different periods of time.