For further reading

Phonology · Spring 2023

This page provides some optional resources for further reading, for students who would like another perspective on some of the course material. Readings will be listed on this page as they become relevant.

Warning: While these readings cover material in a way that's fairly similar to the approaches we are developing in class, they may not cover all the same points as our course, and there may sometimes be minor differences in notation, suggested analysis procedures, or terminology. In such cases, material from our actual course handouts and class notes will take priority.

All books mentioned on this page are on reserve for LING 200 (except where noted). See the Course Reserves link in Canvas.

Basic phonetics concepts and terminology (review from LING 101)

Hayes, Bruce. 2009. Chapter 1, Phonetics. Introductory Phonology, 1-18. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
See also the LING 101 textbook, Contemporary Linguistics.

Phonology and the scientific method

Zsiga, Elizabeth. 2013. Chapter 12, What is a possible language?/section 12.1, Introduction. The Sounds of Language, 254-257. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Phonological features

Refer to the extensive features handout as well as the practice features chart from our class.

Morphology and morphological analysis

Hayes, Bruce. 2009. Chapter 5, Morphology. Introductory Phonology, 103-120. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
- See especially sections 5.1 "Basics of morphology", 5.2 "Formal types of morphemes", 5.3 "Notation", 5.6 "The functions of morphology", and 5.9 "Morphological analysis"
See also the LING 101 textbook, Contemporary Linguistics.

Underlying representations, morpheme alternations, and phonological rules

Odden, David. 2005. Ch 4, Underlying representations. Introducing Phonology, 67-98. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Warning: This author doesn't use features in this chapter, but we would.
- Several excerpts from this chapter were assigned as a class reading.

Syllable structure

Hayes, Bruce. 2009. Ch 13, "Syllables." Introductory Phonology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
- This chapter tracks our syllable-structure unit pretty closely, but sect ion 13.6 is mostly extra/advanced content.
- Warning: This author uses a slightly different feature system than we are using.

Optimality Theory

McCarthy, John. 2007. "What is Optimality Theory?" Language and Linguistics Compass 1: 260-291.
- Read article online (through UNC Libraries)
- See especially sections 3 "The Fundamentals of OT" and 4 "Doing Linguistic Analysis in Optimality Theory".