Analyzing Sound Patterns An Introduction to Phonology

Analyzing Sound Patterns is a clear and concise introduction to phonological phenomena, covering a wide range of issues from segmental to suprasegmental problems and prosodic morphology. Assuming no prior knowledge of problem solving, this textbook shows students how to analyze phonological problems with a focus on practical tools, methodology and step-by-step instructions. It is aimed at undergraduate and beginning graduate students and places an instructional focus on developing students' analytical abilities. It includes extensive exercises of various types which engage students in reading and evaluating competing analyses, and involves students in a variety of analytical tasks. This textbook: • is designed around related phonological problems and demonstrates how they are analyzed step by step • presents and compares competing accounts of identical problems, and discusses and evaluates the arguments that distinguish one analysis from another • details how a broad array of sound patterns are identified and analyzed.

Introduction; Part I. Distribution: 1. Patterns of sounds: vowel co-occurrence in Kikuyu; 2. The distribution of English nasals; 3. Luganda liquids and the analysis of complementary distribution; 4. Contrast and complementarity: multiple complementation in Thai; Part II. Alternation: 5. Alternation and the case of English nasals; 6. Tibetan numerals and underlying representation; 7. Tonkawa stem alternation; 8. Yawelmani and interacting processes; Part III. Syllable: 9. The distribution of syllable in Ponapean; 10. Syllable and vowel epenthesis in Ponapean; 11. Ponapean syllable and vowel epenthesis; an optimal-theoretic analysis; 12. Syllable and segmental processes in Diola-Fogny; Part IV. Tone: 13. Tonal distribution in Mende and autosegmental representation; 14. Tonal alternation in Mende; 15. Yoruba tone asymmetry and derivational accounts of asymmetry; 16. Yoruba tone asymmetry and optimality theory; Part V. Stress: 17. Pintupi, Wargamay and Choctaw stress and metrical theory; 18. Pintupi, Wargamay and Choctaw stress and optimality theory; 19. To stress or not to stress: stress-epenthesis interactions in Yimas; Part VI. Prosodic Morphology: 20. Templatic morphology and Arabic broken plurals; 21. The emergence of the unmarked and Swati verb reduplication; 22. Prosodic misalignment: LuGanda glide epenthesis.and Swati reduplication; Appendix A. Sample instructions for the reading response assignment; Appendix B. Sample instructions for a problem: vowel co-occurrence in Kikuyu bi-syllabic roots and root-suffix forms; Index of constraints and rules; Language index; Subject Index.

Analyzing Sound Patterns is a clear and concise introduction to phonological phenomena, it includes extensive exercises which involve students in a variety of analytical tasks and shows students how to analyze phonological problems with a focus on practical tools, methodology and step-by-step instructions.