Beschreibung:
David Odden is Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at Ohio State University.
This thoroughly revised edition provides a clear and practical introduction to phonology, the study of sound patterns in language.
1. What is phonology?; 2. Allophonic relations; 3. Feature theory; 4. Underlying representations; 5. Interacting processes; 6. Doing an analysis; 7. Phonological typology and naturalness; 8. Abstractness and psychological reality; 9. Nonlinear representations.