About the series
Cambridge Elements in Phonology is an innovative series that presents a current and thorough state of the field of Phonology. Driven by questions of what constitutes phonological knowledge, spanning the phoneme to features and representations to rules and constraints, phonologists continue to explore these concepts in an ever-growing body of newly described and typologically diverse languages.
Phonological research has increasingly drawn insights from studies of phonetics, psychology, discourse, acquisition, and identity (among other factors). Advancements in computational and statistical tools have enabled a range of new kinds of methodologies to identify patterns that would not emerge in the methodology of nascent phonological analysis.
The series contains Elements in four conceptual domains. One set of contributions focuses on theoretical foundations of phonological research, covering the roots of the field, the emergence of representaitonal frameworks, typological analysis, and contemporary quantitative approaches. A second set covers a range of phonological phenomena, such as harmony, tone, stress, and segmental alternations, while the third set focuses on groups of languages (areal and familial) with notable phonological characteristics. The last set deals with interplay between phonology and other domains of linguistic analysis, such as phonetics, acquisition, sociolinguistics, language contact, and documentation.
This series will comprise original submissions that demonstrate the growth and trajectory in the field and its advancements in theory and methods.
Elements in this series
The target audience is broad and includes the following range of readership:
- Researchers and scholars in phonology looking for up-to-date summaries of current specialized topics
- Scholars in other domains of linguistics interested in ways that subfields of phonology interface with their own subfields
- Graduate students looking to strengthen their background in phonology or who are in search of state-of-the-art empirical coverage of the field
- Advanced undergraduate students hoping to explore foundational and empirical bases of the field
Series topics
- Why is there phonology?
- Theories and models of phonological representation and derivation
- Contemporary advances in phonological methods
- Phonological phenomena: segmental, prosodic, and intonational patterns and effects
- Notable phonological traits of language families and geographic areas
- Relationships between phonology and other domains of linguistic analysis
Contact the editors
If you are interested in publishing for the series, please contact the editors Robert Kennedy: [email protected] or Patrycja Strycharczuk: [email protected]
About the editors
Robert Kennedy is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research has focused on segmental and rhythmic alternations in reduplicative phonology, with an emphasis on interactions among stress patterns, morphological structure, and allomorphic phenomena, and socio-phonological variation within and across the vowel systems of varieties of English. His work has appeared in Linguistic Inquiry, Phonology, and American Speech. He is also the author of Phonology: A Coursebook (Cambridge University Press), an introductory textbook for students of phonology.
Patrycja Strycharczuk is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Manchester. Her research programme is centered on exploring the sound structure of language by using instrumental articulatory data. Her major research projects to date have examined the relationship between phonology and phonetics in the context of laryngeal processes, the morphology-phonetics interactions, and articulatory dynamics as a factor in sound change. The results of these investigations have appeared in journals such as Journal of Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, and Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. She has received funding from the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Editorial board members
- Diana Archangeli (University of Arizona)
- Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester)
- Jennifer Cole (Northwestern University)
- Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam)