Phonology: A Cognitive View (Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Sciences Series)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 184 pages
• Published by: Lawrence Erlbaum
• Edition: 1st Edition August 1, 1989
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0805804668
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0805804669
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Weighs: 10.7 ounces

Product Review


I think this is a good book that just about any reader will profit from reading, and one that I would recommend.
—Journal of Linguistics

this is a useful and important book for phonology as a field, with the potential to affect the direction of phonological research.of great use to the practising phonologist in that it presents a lucid and current report on the status of research in the field.provides the reader with just enough background to understand the arguments and gets quickly into the issues which phonologists presently find of interest.Kaye is masterful at explaining why non-linear phonology is not just notationally different from linear theories and the reader gets a real sense of where phonological theory is heading.The book makes interesting, enjoyable reading.
—Phonology

stimulates thinking about possible links between phonology and cognitive science.
—Contemporary Psychology



I think this is a good book that just about any reader will profit from reading, and one that I would recommend.
—Journal of Linguistics

this is a useful and important book for phonology as a field, with the potential to affect the direction of phonological research.of great use to the practising phonologist in that it presents a lucid and current report on the status of research in the field.provides the reader with just enough background to understand the arguments and gets quickly into the issues which phonologists presently find of interest.Kaye is masterful at explaining why non-linear phonology is not just notationally different from linear theories and the reader gets a real sense of where phonological theory is heading.The book makes interesting, enjoyable reading.
—Phonology

stimulates thinking about possible links between phonology andcognitive science.
—Contemporary Psychology

Product Description
Designed to acquaint the reader with the field of phonology -- the study of the systems of linguistically significant sounds -- this book begins with a brief introduction to linguistics and a discussion of phonology's place within that field. It then goes on to cover a variety of topics including the nature of phonological units, phonological rules, which types of phenomena interest phonologists, and the evolution of phonological theory.

Suitable for many applications, this volume assumes no previous knowledge of linguistics. An great text for use in first or second year phonology courses, it will also be of value to those involved in cognitive science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and computer science.


Reader Reviews
This rather terse volume is described as being for a non-specialist audience. Yet, specialities in linguistics tend to be so very narrow that I imagine even linguists who have not studied phonology recently might benefit from it. I read it as an EFL teacher with an interest in this area of linguistics as APPLIED linguistics. If you don't know the difference between phonology and phonetics. Or if you have no idea what a phoneme is or why it is such an important but ultimately non-existent thing, this book will get you to a new state of knowledge. I liked this book because it clearly explains linguistics in that highly technical way that follows from Chomsky and Halle, but it also draws on psycholinguistic research in the way the popular writer, Pinker, might. As I often do, I recommend this type of book for people in language teaching and literacy education, since the actual level of linguistic awareness in these professions is often appallingly low. Books like this might help those deciding language policy in education to know something about language. Perhaps there is a list in the making here: books that language and literacy educators ought to read so that they are not ignorant about language. This book would definitely make the short list.