Phonetics and Phonology

Lecture List and Readings for MA Linguistics

Professor Shi Baohui
School of Foreign Languages, Beijing Forestry University
September 2005
1. Key Readings:
The basic text is:
Shi Baohui. 2005. Introducing Phonetics and Phonology. Handout.
The required readings are:
Clark, John & Colin Yallop. 1995. An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. 2/e. Oxford:
Blackwell. Reprinted by FLTRP, 2001.
Durand, Jacques & Bernard Laks. 2002. Phonology, Phonetics, and Cognition. In Durand &
Laks (eds.), pp. 10-50.
Kager, Ren. 1999. Optimality Theory. Chapters 1-2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reprinted by FLTRP, 2001.
Odden, David. 2005. Introducing Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Yava, Mehmet. 2006. Applied English Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
As I am working on an Introduction to Phonology book for Peking University Press, written in
Chinese, parts of it will be available to you during the course as they come out.
(See overleaf for a longer list of references.)
2. Lecture List
Week

Content

Readings

Introduction

Shi: Ch. 1; Clark & Yallop: Ch. 1; Durand & Laks.

Speech Production,
Notation

Consonants

Vowels, Coarticulation

Shi: Ch. 2; Clark & Yallop: Ch. 6; Odden: Ch. 1; Yava:

Chs. 1 & 5.
Shi: Ch. 3; Clark & Yallop: Ch. 2; Odden: Ch. 2.2;
Yava: Ch. 3.
Shi: Chs. 4-5; Clark & Yallop: Chs. 2-3; Odden: Ch. 2.1,
2.3; Yava: Ch. 4.

National Holiday & Reading Week

Phonological Theories,
Phonological Processes

Shi: Ch. 6; Clark & Yallop: Ch. 4; Odden: Chs. 3-4;

Yava: Ch. 2.

Generative Phonology

Clark & Yallop: Ch.5; Odden: Ch. 5.

Feature Theory

Shi: Ch. 7; Clark & Yallop: Ch. 10; Odden: Chs. 6-9.

10

Suprasegmentals

Shi: Chs. 8-9; Clark & Yallop: Ch. 9; Yava: Chs. 6-7.

11

Non-linear Theories

Clark & Yallop: Ch. 11; Odden: Ch. 10.

12

Optimality Theory

Shi: Ch. 10; Kager: Chs. 1-2.

3. Assessment
This is based on attendance, coursework, and mainly a take-home exam at the end of the course.

4. Bibliography
(* has been reprinted by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press; ** has been reprinted by
Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press; *** has been reprinted by Peking University Press.)
Abercrombie, David. 1967. Elements of General Phonetics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press.
Ashby, Michael & John Maidment. 2005. Introducing Phonetic Science. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Bolinger, Dwight L. 1989. Intonation and Its Uses. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Brakel, Arthur. 1983. Phonological Markedness and Distinctive Features. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press.
Catford, J.C. 2001. A Practical Introduction to Phonetics. 2/e. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Celce-Murcia, Marianne, Donna M. Brinton & Janet M. Goodwin. 1996. Teaching Pronunciation:
A Reference for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Chomsky, Noam & Morris Halle. 1968. The Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper & Row.
*Clark, John & Colin Yallop. 1995. An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. 2/e. Oxford:
Blackwell.
***Cruttenden, Alan. 1997. Intonation. 2/e. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Duanmu, San. 2000. The Phonology of Standard Chinese. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Durand, Jacques. 1990. Generative and Non-Linear Phonology. London: Longman.
Durand, Jacques & Bernard Laks. (eds.) 2002a. Phonetics, Phonology, and Cognition. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Durand, Jacques & Bernard Laks. 2002b. Phonology, Phonetics, and Cognition. In Durand & Laks
(eds.), pp. 10-50.
Ewen, Colin J. & Harry van der Hulst. 2001. The Phonological Structure of Words: An
Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Giegerich, Heinz J. 1992. English Phonology: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
*Gimson, A. C. & Alan Cruttenden. 2001. Gimsons Pronunciation of English. 6th ed. London:
Arnold.
Goldsmith, J. A. 1990. Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Goldsmith, J. A. (ed.) 1995. The Handbook of Phonological Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
Goldsmith, J. A. (ed.) 1999. Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell.
Gussenhoven, Carlos. 2004. The Phonology of Tone and Intonation. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
*Gussenhoven, Carlos & Haike Jacobs. 1998. Understanding Phonology. London: Arnold.
Gussmann, Edmund. 2002. Phonology: Analysis and Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Halle, Morris & G. N. Clements. 1983. Problem Book in Phonology. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT.
Halle, Morris & Jean-Roger Vergnaud. 1990. An Essay on Stress. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT.
Hammond, Michael. 1999. The Phonology of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hardcastle, William J. & John Laver. 1997. The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences. Oxford:
Blackwell.
Hyman, Larry M. 1975. Phonology: Theory and Analysis. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
International Phonetic Association. 1999. Handbook of the International Phonetic Association.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Jones, Daniel. 1962. Outline of English Phonetics. Cambridge: Heffer.

**Jones, Daniel. 1997. English Pronouncing Dictionary. 15/e. (edited by Peter Roach and James
Hartman). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
*Kager, Ren. 1999. Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kenstowicz, Michael. 1994. Phonology in Generative Grammar. Oxford: Blackwell.
Ladefoged, Peter. 1996. Elements of Acoustic Phonetics. 2/e. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
Ladefoged, Peter. 2001. A Course in Phonetics. 4/e. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College Publishers.
Ladefoged, Peter. 2005a. A Course in Phonetics. 5th ed. New York: Harcourt.
Ladefoged, Peter. 2005b. Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Languages.
2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell.
Lass, Roger. 1984. Phonology: An Introduction to Basic Concepts. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Laver, John. 1994. Principles of Phonetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Makkai, Valerie Becker. 1978. Phonological Theory: Evolution and Current Practice. Lake Bluff,
Illinois: Jupiter Press.
McCarthy, John J. 2002. A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
McCarthy, John J. 2004. Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.
Odden, David. 2005. Introducing Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Prince, Alan & Paul Smolensky. 2004. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative
Grammar. Oxford: Blackwell.
Ramsaran, Susan. (ed.) 1990. Studies in the Pronunciation of English: A Commemorative Volume
in Honour of A. C. Gimson. London: Routledge.
*Roach, Peter. 2000. English Phonetics and Phonology. 3/e. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.

**Roach, Peter. 2001. Phonetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Roca, Iggy. 1994. Generative Phonology. London: Routledge.
Roca, Iggy & Wyn Johnson. 1999. A Course in Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Schane, Sanford A. 1973. Generative Phonology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
Schmerling, S. F. 1976. Aspects of English Sentence Stress. Austin & London: University of Texas
Press.
Sloat, Clarence, Sharon Henderson Taylor & James E. Hoard. 1978. Introduction to Phonology.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
Spencer, Andrew. 1996. Phonology: Theory and Application. Oxford: Blackwell.
*Upton, Clive, William Kretzschmar, & Rafal Konopka. 2003. Oxford Dictionary of
Pronunciation for Current English. New edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wells, John. 2000. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. 2/e. Harlow: Pearson. Reprinted by the
Commercial Press, Beijing, 2005.
Yavas, Mehmet. 2006. Applied English Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
***Yip, Moira. 2002. Tone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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