''Phonology in Generative Grammar'' is a 1994 book by
Michael Kenstowicz in which the author provides an introduction to
phonology
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...
in the framework of
generative grammar
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.
Reception
The book was reviewed by
Daniel A. Dinnsen, Stephen Parker,
Tracy Alan Hall
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and
Jolanta Szpyra
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.
Helen Fraser calls it a "very large, very thorough and very highly regarded phonology textbook."
References
External links
Phonology in Generative Grammar 1994 non-fiction books
Phonology books
Linguistics textbooks
Wiley-Blackwell books
Generative linguistics
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