TABLE OF CONTENTSPart One
Phonetics in Britain and Continental Europe
Unit 1 Alexander John Ellis (1814–1890)..............................2
Reading From A Plea for Phonetic Spelling (1848).....................................4
Unit 2 Alexander Melville Bell (1819–1905)....................25
Reading From Visible Speech (1867).......................................................27
Unit 3 Henry Sweet (1845–1912).............................................38
Reading A On English Phonology (1877).................................................40
Reading B From A Handbook of Phonetics (1877).......................................44
Unit 4 Eduard Sievers (1850–1932)........................................52
Reading From Foundations of Phonetics (1901).......................................53
Unit 5 Otto Jespersen (1860–1943)........................................63
Reading A What Is the Use of Phonetics? (1910)......................................65
Reading B Sound Symbolism (1922).........................................................77
Unit 6 Daniel Jones (1881–1967).............................................99
Reading On Phonemes (1931).............................................................101
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Part Two
Phonemics in the United States
Unit 7 Franz Boas (1858–1942)..............................................110
Reading A On Alternating Sounds (1889)............................................... 112
Reading B From “Introduction to Handbook
of American Indian Languages” (1911).................................... 121
Unit 8 Edward Sapir (1884–1939).........................................133
Reading A Sound Patterns in Language (1925)....................................... 135
Reading B The Psychological Reality of Phonemes (1933)..................... 154
Unit 9 Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949)...........................173
Reading A From “A Set of Postulates for the Science of Language” (1926)..... 175
Reading B From Language (1933)............................................................ 179
Unit 10 Morris Swadesh (1909–1967)....................................202
Reading The Phonemic Principle (1934)............................................. 204
Part Three
The Prague School’s Phonology
Unit 11 Vilém Mathesius (1882–1945)...................................222
Reading On the Phonological System of Modern English (1929)......... 224
Unit 12 Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (1890–1938)...237
Reading A Theory of Phonological Oppositions (1936)...................... 239
A List of Sources from Which the Texts in This Book Are Taken.....253
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