{"id":2282,"date":"2012-09-08T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2012-09-05T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T09:47:29","slug":"the-handbook-of-phonological-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=2282","title":{"rendered":"The handbook of phonological theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>The handbook of phonological theory.<\/strong> 2nd edn. Ed. by <strong>John Goldsmith<\/strong>, <strong>Jason Riggle<\/strong>, and <strong>Alan C. L. Yu<\/strong>. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Pp. 970. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/handbook-of-phonological-theory\/oclc\/704557546&amp;referer=brief_results\">ISBN 9781405157681<\/a>. $219.95 (Hb).<\/div>\n<p align=\"right\">Reviewed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlist.org\/people\/personal\/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=83165\">Alejandrina Cristia<\/a><\/strong>, <em>Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since it has been a mere fifteen years after the first edition of this book, readers of this review may wonder if they should buy it again. The question turns out to be ill-posed, as it presupposes a constant \u2018it\u2019. The current edition is a radically different selection of essays. Below is a succinct overview of its chapters.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of phonological units, only \u2018The syllable\u2019 (<strong>John Goldsmith<\/strong>) and \u2018Tone: Is it different?\u2019 (<strong>Larry Hyman<\/strong>) are discussed. Suprasegmentals are addressed in \u2018Quantity\u2019 (<strong>Stuart Davis<\/strong>), \u2018Stress systems\u2019 (<strong>Matthew Gordon<\/strong>), and \u2018Intonation\u2019 (<strong>Mary E. Beckman<\/strong> and <strong>Jennifer J. Venditti<\/strong>). In-depth discussion of types of synchronic phenomena are limited to \u2018Harmony systems\u2019 (<strong>Sharon Rose<\/strong> and <strong>Rachel Walker<\/strong>) and \u2018Opacity and ordering\u2019 (<strong>Eric Bakovi\u0107<\/strong>), with \u2018Contrast reduction\u2019 (<strong>Alan C. L. Yu<\/strong>) covering both mergers and neutralization. Interfaces between phonology and other linguistic components are covered in \u2018The interaction between morphology and phonology\u2019 (<strong>Sharon Inkelas<\/strong>) and \u2018The syntax-phonology interface\u2019 (<strong>Elisabeth Selkirk<\/strong>). Notably, <strong>D. R. Ladd<\/strong> prefers to speak of \u2018Phonetics <em>in<\/em> phonology\u2019 (emphasis added).<\/p>\n<p>Another group of chapters focuses on kinds of evidence feeding phonological theory, including \u2018Language games\u2019 (<strong>Bert Vaux<\/strong>), \u2018Loanword adaptation\u2019 (<strong>Carole Paradis<\/strong> and <strong>Darlene LaCharit\u00e9<\/strong>), developmental data (<strong>Katherine Demuth<\/strong>), and psycholinguistic data (<strong>Matt Goldrick<\/strong>). Also on acquisition, <strong>Adam Albright<\/strong> and <strong>Bruce Hayes <\/strong>integrate formal and experimental approaches in \u2018Learning and learnability in phonology\u2019. The incorporation of the chapter by <strong>Mirjam Ernestus<\/strong> and <strong>R. Harald Baayen<\/strong> reflects recent tendencies to integrate quantitative analyses of large corpora into the phonological evidence toolkit, which typically also require linguists to bear in mind ideas presented in the chapter \u2018The place of variation in phonological theory\u2019 (<strong>Andries W. Coetzee<\/strong> and <strong>Joe Pater<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Three chapters discuss the basic structure of current phonological theories. <strong>David Odden<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Rules v. constraints\u2019 argues against the rule versus constraint dichotomy. The chapter by <strong>Harry van der Hulst<\/strong> describes the properties of a number of \u2018Dependency-based phonologies\u2019. Finally, <strong>Gunnar \u00d3lafur Hansson<\/strong> provides a general review of \u2018Diachronic explanations of sound patterns\u2019. From a different approach, <strong>John Coleman<\/strong> provides a brief history of computational modeling in \u2018Phonology as computation\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>This overview may suffice to illustrate the markedly different approaches in the two editions. Nearly a third of the chapters in the first edition documented current issues in specific language families, whereas only the chapter on \u2018Sign language phonology\u2019 (<strong>Diane Brentari<\/strong>) could arguably be classified as such. In contrast, insights from large corpora, theoretical approaches to variation, and psycholinguistic considerations are uniquely represented in the 2011 edition. Even in chapters that have a counterpart in the first edition, there are important perspective changes from the particulars of a language or language group to general phonological principles, possibly as a response of the editors\u2019 challenge to \u2018ask what the broader questions are [and] pass judgment [&#8230;] on the degree to which the field had succeeded in providing answers\u2019. As the previous edition proved to be, this edition will doubtless be a key reference in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The handbook of phonological theory. 2nd edn. Ed. by John Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, and Alan C. L. Yu. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Pp. 970. ISBN 9781405157681. $219.95 (Hb). Reviewed by Alejandrina Cristia, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Since it has been a mere fifteen years after the first edition of this book, readers of this review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}