The Handbook of Phonological Theory

The Handbook of Phonological Theory, Second Edition, is an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology. Revised from the ground up, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chapters.

• Offers new and unique contributions reflecting the advances in phonological theory since publication of the first edition in 1995
• Addresses the important questions in the field including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation, and assesses the findings and accomplishments in these domains
• Features contributions by an international team of leading phonologists
• Along with the first edition, currently available in paperback, forms the most complete and current look at the subject in print

Keywords: Phonology, phonetics, learnability, optimality theory, tone, computational linguistics, prosody