The Blackwell Companion to Phonology is a major reference work drawing together new contributions from leading international scholars in the field. It will be indispensable to students and researchers in the field for years to come. Key Features: Full explorations of all the most important ideas and key developments in the field Documents major insights into human language gathered by phonologists in past decades; highlights interdisciplinary connections, such as the social and computational sciences; and examines statistical and experimental techniques; offers an overview of theoretical positions and ongoing debates within phonology at the beginning of the twenty-first century; an extensive reference work based on the best and most recent scholarly research - ideal for advanced undergraduates through to faculty and researchers.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Preface
• General Issues and Segmental Phonology
• 1 Underlying Representations, Jennifer Cole & José Ignacio Hualde
• 2 Contrast, Daniel Currie Hall
• 3 Learnability, Jeffrey Heinz & Jason Riggle
• 4 Markedness, Elizabeth Hume
• 5 The Atoms of Phonological Representations, Marianne Pouplier
• 6 Self-organization in Phonology, Andrew Wedel
• 7 Feature Specification and Underspecification, Diana Archangeli
• 8 Sonorants, Bert Botma
• 9 Handshape in Sign Language Phonology, Diane Brentari
• 10 The Other Hand in Sign Language Phonology, Onno Crasborn
• 11 The Phoneme, B. Elan Dresher
• 12 Coronals, T. A. Hall
• 13 The Stricture Features, Ellen M. Kaisse
• 14 Autosegments, William R. Leben
• 15 Glides, Susannah V. Levi
• 16 Affricates, Yen-Hwei Lin
• 17 Distinctive Features, Jeff Mielke
• 18 The Representation of Clicks, Amanda Miller
• 19 Vowel Place, Bruce Morén-Duolljá
• 20 The Representation of Vowel Length, David Odden
• 21 Vowel Height, Douglas Pulleyblank
• 22 Consonantal Place of Articulation, Keren Rice
• 23 Partially Nasal Segments, Anastasia K. Riehl & Abigail C. Cohn
• 24 The Phonology of Movement in Sign Language, Wendy Sandler
• 25 Pharyngeals, Kimary Shahin
• 26 Schwa, Daniel Silverman
• 27 The Organization of Features, Christian Uffmann
• 28 The Representation of Fricatives, Bert Vaux & Brett Miller
• 29 Secondary and Double Articulation, Jeroen van de Weijer
• 30 The Representation of Rhotics, Richard Wiese
• 31 Lateral Consonants, Moira Yip
• Suprasegmental and Prosodic Phonology
• 32 The Representation of Intonation, Amalia Arvaniti
• 33 Syllable-internal Structure, Anna R. K. Bosch
• 34 Precedence Relations in Phonology, Charles Cairns & Eric Raimy
• 35 Downstep, Bruce Connell
• 36 Final Consonants, Marie-Hélène Côté
• 37 Geminates, Stuart Davis
• 38 The Representation of sC Clusters, Heather Goad
• 39 Stress: Phonotactic and Phonetic Evidence, Matthew Gordon
• 40 The Foot, Michael Hammond
• 41 The Representation of Word Stress, Ben Hermans
• 42 Pitch Accent Systems, Harry van der Hulst
• 43 Extrametricality and Non-finality, Brett Hyde
• 44 The Iambic—Trochaic Law, Brett Hyde
• 45 The Representation of Tone, Larry M. Hyman
• 46 Positional Effects in Consonant Clusters, Jongho Jun
• 47 Initial Geminates, Astrid Kraehenmann
• 48 Stress-timed vs. Syllable-timed Languages, Marina Nespor, Mohinish Shukla & Jacques Mehler
• 49 Sonority, Steve Parker
• 50 Tonal Alignment, Pilar Prieto
• 51 The Phonological Word, Anthi Revithiadou
• 52 Ternary Rhythm, Curt Rice
• 53 Syllable Contact, Misun Seo
• 54 The Skeleton, Péter Szigetvári
• 55 Onsets, Nina Topintzi
• 56 Sign Syllables, Ronnie Wilbur
• 57 Quantity-sensitivity, Draga Zec
• Phonological Processes
• 58 The Emergence of the Unmarked, Michael Becker & Kathryn Flack Potts
• 59 Metathesis, Eugene Buckley
• 60 Dissimilation, Patrik Bye
• 61 Hiatus Resolution, Roderic F. Casali
• 62 Constraint Conjunction, Megan J. Crowhurst
• 63 Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints, Paul de Lacy
• 64 Compensatory Lengthening, Randall Gess
• 65 Consonant Mutation, Janet Grijzenhout
• 66 Lenition, Naomi Gurevich
• 67 Vowel Epenthesis, Nancy Hall
• 68 Deletion, John Harris
• 69 Final Devoicing and Final Laryngeal Neutralization, Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph C. Salmons
• 70 Conspiracies, Charles W. Kisseberth
• 71 Palatalization, Alexei Kochetov
• 72 Consonant Harmony in Child Language, Clara C. Levelt
• 73 Chain Shifts, Anna Łubowicz
• 74 Rule Ordering, Joan Mascaró
• 75 Consonant–Vowel Place Feature Interactions, Jaye Padgett
• 76 Structure Preservation: The Resilience of Distinctive Information, Carole Paradis & Darlene LaCharité
• 77 Long-distance Assimilation of Consonants, Sharon Rose
• 78 Nasal Harmony, Rachel Walker
• 79 Reduction, Natasha Warner
• 80 Mergers and Neutralization, Alan C. L. Yu
• 81 Local Assimilation, Elizabeth C. Zsiga
• Phonological Interfaces
• 82 Featural Affixes, Akinbiyi Akinlabi
• 83 Paradigms, Adam Albright
• 84 Clitics, Stephen R. Anderson
• 85 Cyclicity, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
• 86 Morpheme Structure Constraints, Geert Booij
• 87 Neighborhood Effects, Adam Buchwald
• 88 Derived Environment Effects, Luigi Burzio
• 89 Gradience and Categoricality in Phonological Theory, Mirjam Ernestus
• 90 Frequency Effects, Stefan A. Frisch
• 91 Vowel Harmony: Opaque and Transparent Vowels, Adamantios I. Gafos & Amanda Dye
• 92 Variability, Gregory R. Guy
• 93 Sound Change, José Ignacio Hualde
• 94 Lexical Phonology and the Lexical Syndrome, Ellen M. Kaisse & April McMahon
• 95 Loanword Phonology, Yoonjung Kang
• 96 Experimental Approaches in Theoretical Phonology, Shigeto Kawahara
• 97 Tonogenesis, John Kingston
• 98 Speech Perception and Phonology, Andrew Martin & Sharon Peperkamp
• 99 Phonologically Conditioned Allomorph Selection, Andrew Nevins
• 100 Reduplication, Eric Raimy
• 101 The Interpretation of Phonological Patterns in First Language Acquisition, Yvan Rose & Sharon Inkelas
• 102 Category-specific Effects, Jennifer L. Smith
• 103 Phonological Sensitivity to Morphological Structure, Jochen Trommer
• 104 Root-Affix Asymmetries, Suzanne Urbanczyk
• 105 Tier Segregation, Adam Ussishkin
• 106 Exceptionality, Matthew Wolf
• Phonology across Languages,
• 107 Chinese Tone Sandhi, Bao Zhiming
• 108 Semitic Templates, Outi Bat-El
• 109 Polish Syllable Structure, Christina Y. Bethin
• 110 Metaphony in Romance, Andrea Calabrese
• 111 Laryngeal Contrast in Korean, Young-mee Yu Cho
• 112 French Liaison, Marie-Hélène Côté
• 113 Flapping in American English, Kenneth J. de Jong
• 114 Bantu Tone, Laura J. Downing
• 115 Chinese Syllable Structure, San Duanmu
• 116 Sentential Prominence in English, Carlos Gussenhoven
• 117 Celtic Mutations, S. J. Hannahs
• 118 Turkish Vowel Harmony, Baris Kabak
• 119 Reduplication in Sanskrit, Robert Kennedy
• 120 Japanese Pitch Accent, Haruo Kubozono
• 121 Slavic Palatalization, Jerzy Rubach
• 122 Slavic Yers, Tobias Scheer
• 123 Hungarian Vowel Harmony, Miklós Törkenczy
• 124 Word Stress in Arabic, Janet C. E. Watson