本书是剑桥大学出版社“剑桥语言及语言学入门”系列丛书之一,旨在培养音系分析所需的基本技能,是一部专门为音系学初学者撰写的入门教材。
全书以音系学理论问题为主线,通过对大量实际语料的介绍和分析来说明音系研究的对象和分析方法。本书不偏重于理论的介绍,而以训练音系解题能力为主,目的在于让使用者直接面对实际的语音现象,开发使用者对音系问题的感性认识。

About this book
Acknowledgments
A note on languages
List of abbreviations
1 What is phonology?
1.1 Concerns of phonology
1.2 Phonetics - what is physical sound?
1.3 The symbolic representation of speech
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
2 Phonetic transcriptions
2.1 Vowels: their symbols and properties
2.2 Consonants: their symbols and properties
2.3 IPA symbols
2.4 Illustrations with English transcription
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
3 Allophonic relations
3.1 English consonantal allophones
3.2 Allophony in other languages
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
4 Underlying representations
4.1 The importance of correct underlying forms
4.2 Refining the concept of underlying form
4.3 Finding the underlying form
4.4 Practice at problem solving
4.5 Underlying forms and sentence-level phonology
4.6 Underlying forms and multiple columns
in the paradigm
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
5 Interacting processes
5.1 Separating the effects of different rules
5.2 Different effects of rule ordering
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
6 Feature theory
6.1 Scientific questions about speech sounds
6.2 Distinctive feature theory
6.3 Features and classes of segments
6.4 Possible phonemes and rules - an answer
6.5 The formulation of phonological rules
6.6 Changing the theory
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
7 Doing an analysis
7.1 Yawelmani
7.2 Hehe
7.3 Icelandic
7.4 Modern Hebrew
7.5 Japanese
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
8 Phonological typology and naturalness
8.1 Inventories
8.2 Segmental processes
8.3 Prosodically based processes
8.4 Why do things happen?
Summary
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
9 Abstractness and psychological reality
9.1 Why limit abstractness?
9.2 Independent evidence: historical restructuring
9.3 Well-motivated abstractness
9.4 Grammar-external evidence for abstractness
9.5 How abstract is phonology?
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
10 Nonlinear representations
10.1 The autosegmental theory of tone: the beginnings of change
10.2 Extension to the segmental domain
Summary
Exercises
Notes to this chapter
Suggestions for further reading
Glossary
References
Index of languages
General Index