ABSTRACT

This textbook describes the approaches to phonology that are most relevant to communication disorders. It examines schools of thought in theoretical phonology, and their relevance to description, explanation and remediation in the clinical context.

A recurring theme throughout the book is the distinction between phonological theories that attempt elegant, parsimonious descriptions of phonological data, and those that attempt to provide a psycholinguistic model of speech production and perception.

This book introduces all the relevant areas of phonology to the students and practitioners of speech-language pathology and is a companion volume to the authors’ Phonetics for Communication Disorders.

chapter 1|17 pages

Introduction and Background

chapter 2|10 pages

Sonority Theory

chapter 3|14 pages

Distinctive Features

chapter 4|18 pages

Early Generative Phonology

chapter 5|12 pages

Developments with Features

chapter 6|10 pages

Developments with Derivations

Lexical and Prosodie Phonology

chapter 7|17 pages

Autosegmental Phonology

chapter 8|10 pages

Metrical Phonology

chapter 9|13 pages

Prosodic Analysis

chapter 10|10 pages

Natural Phonology

chapter 11|13 pages

Optimality Theory

chapter 12|14 pages

Articulatory Phonology

chapter 13|18 pages

Government Phonology

chapter 15|15 pages

Clinical Phonology