The Handbook of Phonological Theory

The Handbook of Phonological Theory offers a unique and detailed examination of phonology and the  transformations that have taken place in the fifteen years since the publication of the first edition. Comprised almost entirely of brand–new pieces from contributors new to this edition, this Handbook consciously builds upon its first edition (which remains available in paperback), using it as a foundation to explore the current shape of the field and the questions that drive ongoing research. Written by an international team of leading phonologists, each of the 28 chapters investigates and assesses key issues in the field, including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation. The result is a thorough and cutting–edge account of a field that has important implications for linguistic theory as well as related disciplines, such as speech sciences and clinical linguistics.

List of Contributors vii Preface ix 1 Rules v. Constraints 1 David Odden 2 Opacity and Ordering 40 Eric Bakovic ´ 3 The Interaction Between Morphology and Phonology 68 Sharon Inkelas 4 Quantity 103 Stuart Davis 5 Stress Systems 141 Matthew Gordon 6 The Syllable 164 John Goldsmith 7 Tone: Is it Different? 197 Larry M. Hyman 8 Harmony Systems 240 Sharon Rose and Rachel Walker 9 Contrast Reduction 291 Alan C. L. Yu 10 Diachronic Explanations of Sound Patterns 319 Gunnar Ólafur Hansson 11 Phonetics in Phonology 348 D. R. Ladd 12 Corpora and Exemplars in Phonology 374 Mirjam Ernestus and R. Harald Baayen 13 The Place of Variation in Phonological Theory 401 Andries W. Coetzee and Joe Pater 14 The Syntax–Phonology Interface 435 Elisabeth Selkirk 15 Intonation 485 Mary E. Beckman and Jennifer J. Venditti 16 Dependency–based Phonologies 533 Harry van der Hulst 17 The Acquisition of Phonology 571 Katherine Demuth 18 Phonology as Computation 596 John Coleman 19 Using Psychological Realism to Advance Phonological Theory 631 Matthew Goldrick 20 Learning and Learnability in Phonology 661 Adam Albright and Bruce Hayes 21 Sign Language Phonology 691 Diane Brentari 22 Language Games 722 Bert Vaux 23 Loanword Adaptation: From Lessons Learned to Findings 751 Carole Paradis and Darlene LaCharité References 779 Index 914

John A. Goldsmith is Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He is author of Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology (Basil Blackwell, 1990) . Jason Riggle is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Chicago Language Modeling Lab at the University of Chicago. He has published in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Research on Language and Computation, Linguistic Inquiry and Computational Linguistics (forthcoming) . Alan Yu is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Phonology Laboratory at the University of Chicago. He is the author of A Natural History of Infixation (2007) and has published in Language , Phonology , and the Journal of Phonetics .