num_pages: 268
description: The book's primary aim is to serve as a textbook for students of linguistics, but it is more than a textbook. The author objectively assesses and summarizes what has been learned through the ages about the sound systems of human language and also reveals some of the gaps in our knowledge. This is not a book written bu someone who has learned this phonology from books; it is written by a working phonologist who has himself struggled with and contributed to phonological theory and analysis. The modifications in current phonological theory which he proposes reflect the author's intimate knowledge of the many languages he has studied. For this reason, the book, while introductory in style and exposition and completely understandable by the novice, will also be of interest to the advanced student and working phonologist.- from the Foreword by Victorida A. FromkinUniversity of Califonrnia, Los Angeles
language: English
title: Phonology: Theory and Analysis
publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston