Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu published a second edition of his book, Generative Phonology-Theory and Usage, (China Social Sciences Publishing House, Beijing, 2007). This book covers the up-to-date theories and researches in generative phonology with the illustration of the data across Chinese dialects.
Topics include: Language and Linguistics, Phonology in Linguistics, Concepts in Phonology, Phonetics and Phonology, Distinctive Features, Phonological Symbols, Sound Change and Distribution, Syllables, Tones, Skeleton Layer and Harmony, Metrical Phonology, Lexical Phonology, Interface Study between Phonology and Syntax, and Optimality Theory. Aside from updating each chapter with recent developments and new findings, a new chapter on optimality theory has been added in this edition.
Since its first edition in 1999, Generative Phonology-Theory and Usage has been adopted as the textbook and major reference in phonological studies in both undergraduate and graduate programs in universities and linguistic institutes in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. The second edition is to meet the demand for this book in linguistics in the Chinese-speaking countries.
Topics include: Language and Linguistics, Phonology in Linguistics, Concepts in Phonology, Phonetics and Phonology, Distinctive Features, Phonological Symbols, Sound Change and Distribution, Syllables, Tones, Skeleton Layer and Harmony, Metrical Phonology, Lexical Phonology, Interface Study between Phonology and Syntax, and Optimality Theory. Aside from updating each chapter with recent developments and new findings, a new chapter on optimality theory has been added in this edition.
Since its first edition in 1999, Generative Phonology-Theory and Usage has been adopted as the textbook and major reference in phonological studies in both undergraduate and graduate programs in universities and linguistic institutes in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. The second edition is to meet the demand for this book in linguistics in the Chinese-speaking countries.
