Features in Phonology and Phonetics

This book intends to place Nick Clements' contribution to Feature Theory in a historical and contemporary context and to introduce some of his unpublished manuscripts as well as new work with colleagues collected in this book.

Autorentext

Annie Rialland; Rachid Ridouane, CNRS, Paris, France, and Harry van der Hulst, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA.

Klappentext

Phonology and Phonetics have had a tumultuous, if not always unequivocal, relationship in the past. This relationship between natural partners is now being invigorated from both sides and novel research techniques and methodologies are fostering new interdisciplinary questions. Consequently, a major issue today is whether it is necessary to draw a line between phonology and phonetics at all. This series aims to stabilize and strengthen the rapport and, by facing the big challenges, to ensure that phonetically grounded phonology and phonologically informed phonetics will have a sound future. The series is intended as a forum for the interaction of phonology and phonetics within linguistics. It welcomes joint phonological-phonetic ventures as well as initiatives from either discipline, as long as they are made with a view of the other. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

Zusammenfassung
"[...] the articles in this book serve as excellent background material for anyone whose research interest is concerned with the motivation of, historical use of, and the phonological and phonetic grounding of features. In addition, the reader is introduced to the theoretical framework and the kinds of questions about phonological features that Clements, his colleagues, and his students were seeking to answer."
Janet Leonard in: Linguist List 27.2969