In recent years, an increasing number of linguists have re-examined the question of whether markedness has explanatory power, or whether it is a phenomenon that

The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory provides a comprehensive overview of the major contemporary approaches to phonology. Phonology is frequently defin

This book brings together phonologists working in different areas to explore key questions relating to phonological primitives, the basic building blocks that a

This volume is the first to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive history of phonology from the earliest known examples of phonological thinking, through the

Generative phonology aims to formalise two distinct aspects of phonological processes: the functional and the representational. Since functions operate on repre