For further reading

Phonology · Fall 2024

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.
For another perspective on features, and some extensions to a basic feature 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.

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.