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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.
[UNC Libraries link]
[Canvas course reserves]
- 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. [UNC Libraries link] [Canvas course reserves]
Phonological features
- Refer to the extensive
features handout
as well as the practice features chart
from our class.
- For another perspective on features, with discussion plus a feature model that is very similar
(but not identical) to our class model, see:
Zsiga, Elizabeth. 2013. Chapter 12, What is a possible language?/section 12.2, Distinctive features. The Sounds of Language, 257-270. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. [UNC Libraries link] [Canvas course reserves]
Morphology and morphological analysis
- Hayes, Bruce. 2009.
Chapter 5, Morphology. Introductory Phonology, 103-120. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
[UNC Libraries link]
[Canvas course reserves]
- 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.
[UNC Libraries link]
[Canvas course reserves]
- 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.
[UNC Libraries link]
[Canvas course reserves]
- This chapter tracks our syllable-structure unit pretty closely, but section 13.6 is mostly extra/advanced content, and we are not formalizing syllable-building rules like those discussed in section 13.3.1.3.
- Warning: This author uses a slightly different feature system than we are using, but I don't think features are used much in the syllables chapter.