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Understanding
Phonology
Third edition
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Understanding
Phonology
Third edition
Carlos Gussenhoven
and
Haike Jacobs
Understanding
Language Series
Series Editors:
rie
and
Greville Corbett
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978 1 444 11204 7
First Published 2011
Impression number 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Year 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Copyright © 2011 Carlos Gussenhoven, Haike Jacobs
First edition published in Great Britain in 1998 by Hodder Arnold.
Second edition published in Great Britain in 2005 by Hodder Arnold.
Third edition published in Great Britain in 2011 by Hodder Education.
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Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
The IPA chart x
1. Structures in languages 1
2. The production of speech 15
3. Some typology: sameness and difference 34
4. Making the form fi t 45
5. Underlying and surface representations 61
6. Distinctive features 72
7. SPE. A case study: the diminutive suffi x in Dutch 92
8. Transparency and opacity with rules and constraints 111
9. Levels of representation 131
10. Representing tone 147
11. Between the segment and the syllable 162
12. Feature geometry 185
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