The Phonology of English: A Prosodic Optimality-theoretic Approach

Michael Hammond

Oxford University Press, 1999 - Science - 368 pages

The Phonology of English offers a new approach to English phonology. It focuses on the prosody of the language, i.e. syllable and foot structure, and does so from an optimality-theoretic (OT) perspective. The book is thus intended as a detailed presentation of novel empirical results about the sound system of English, along with important theoretical results about phonological theory.

About the author

Michael Hammond is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona. He has also held the position of Assistant Professor at the Universities of Arizona, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Minnesota.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Phonology of English: A Prosodic Optimality-theoretic Approach; Oxford linguistics; Oxford textbooks in linguistics; Phonology of the world's languages; The Phonology of English: A Prosodic Optimality-theoretic Approach, Michael Hammond
• Author: Michael Hammond
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0198237979, 9780198237976
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Science / Astronomy