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Understanding Phonology Paperback – 27 March 2017

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Understanding Phonology, Fourth Edition provides a clear, accessible and broad introduction to Phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it provides a comprehensive account of phonological issues such as segmental contrasts; syllables and moras; quantity, tone, intonation and stress; feature geometry; and prosodic constituent structure.

This new edition has been reorganized and revised with key features including:

    • A brand new eResource at www.routledge.com/9781138961425, which contains a full answer key for all exercises, and audio recordings of illustrative examples;

    • Illustrations in languages from all six continents and all major language families, including Arabic, Mandarin, Finnish, Zulu and Hawaiian;

    • Over 140 exercises to test understanding, including new exercises involving larger data sets;

    • Revised coverage of tone, stress and opacity in OT.

    Understanding Phonology is essential reading for students coming to this topic for the first time.

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    2. ISBN-13
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    3. Edition
      4th
    4. Publication date
      27 March 2017
    5. Part of series
      Understanding Language
    6. Language
      English
    7. Dimensions
      15.6 x 1.73 x 23.39 cm
    8. Print length
      298 pages
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    "Smartly written and stylishly updated, this excellent book is a richly detailed introduction to phonology. With frequent exercises from a broad variety of languages and sharp discussion of the major topics and issues, it is perfect for university students embarking on a semester-long course."
    Robert Painter, Northeastern University, USA

    "This new edition is a comprehensive textbook of phonology covering a remarkably wide range of issues and languages. It is an essential guide to speech sounds for all students of linguistics and speech science."
    Haruo Kubozono, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan

    "This is a thorough and challenging textbook that will prepare students for dealing with real phonological and phonetic data."
    Marija Tabain, La Trobe University, Australia

    About the Author

    Carlos Gussenhoven is emeritus professor of general and experimental phonology at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

    Haike Jacobs is professor of French linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

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    • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1138961426
    • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 4th edition (27 March 2017)
    • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 298 pages
    • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781138961425
    • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1138961425
    • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.6 x 1.73 x 23.39 cm
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    Masaling
    5.0 out of 5 stars Only those who really understand phonology can write a book like this
    Reviewed in the United States on 29 October 2023
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    I like the "Understanding Language Series," and "Understanding Phonology" by Carlos Gussenhoven and Haike Jacobs is another great volume in the series. This series tends to be a bit old fashioned in that the main focus is explaining concepts than teaching analysis, but the authors do an excellent job clearly explaining fundamental concepts in phonology and giving the reader an excellent overview of phonology.

    I'm well versed in phonology, but I'm not a phonologist (I'm a syntactician). I teach phonology as part of an intro to linguistics as well as an intro to phonology. I know most of what's discussed in this book, but it helps me deepen my understanding of phonology and how I could better teach some of the concepts to my undergraduate students. This is an accessible textbook, but I'm not sure how much the average undergraduate linguistics s major (in the US) can get out of this book to be honest. It's accessible but it's dense. If I were to use this book as a textbook in my course, I would have to do a good amount of scaffolding to make the text accessible to undergraduate students and adding data sets for analysis.
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    Rui
    5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect phonology intro book
    Reviewed in the United States on 4 April 2019
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    My textbook. Love it.
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