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In my neverending quest to find a good phonology textbook to teach with, I found this LINGUIST List book announcement interesting:

Title:	Phonological Analysis : A Functional Approach (Third Edition)
Written By:	Donald A. Burquest

Here’s the more informative blurb and TOC at SIL.org. Anyone seen/used this book? If so, what did you think of it?

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From LINGUIST List:

Do you know of any processes where [constricted] or [spread] glottis spread at the same time as [voice]?

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New discussion initiated on LINGUIST List by Heriberto Avelino:

Recently, I was part of a discussion regarding an issue that I thought was uncontroversial. However, it seems that this is not as straightforward as I first thought. The debate is about the place of phonetics in the study of ‘grammar’. More precisely, whether the study of sound patterns using phonetic methodologies and techniques falls within the broad scope of the term ‘grammar’.

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[This is an expanded version of a query I posted to Linguist List a few days ago.]

I’m interested in what appears to be a sporadic but widespread pattern of liquid dissimilation in English. I’ll post here the data I’ve collected so far, in hopes that readers might think of more examples or just want to share their wisdom on the subject.

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This LINGUIST List post reminds me of two of the very first posts on phonoloblog two years ago (here and here).

Which reminds me — it’s almost phonoloblog’s second birthday!

Dear Colleagues,

Often the nature of a speech phenomenon can be communicated so much better
with the use of an example. Does anybody know of journals in linguistics
(or subfields of) that offer the option to embed sound files in the
electronic (pdf or html) version of papers?

I’ll post a summary.

Sincerely,

Bert Remijsen

In case you missed the announcement on the Optimal List of the posting on the Rutgers Optimality Archive, Junko Ito, John McCarthy and I recently finished editing an online collection of papers written in honor of Alan Prince on the occasion of his 60th birthday (on June 20).

This Festschrift is hosted on the University of California’s eScholarship Repository, under the banner of UC Santa Cruz’s Linguistics Research Center. Right now it is only available electronically, but we have plans to make hardcopies available on demand via BookSurge (preparation for which is much more complicated than you might think). [ Update, 8/31 -- the book can now be purchased for $18.99 (+ shipping) from Amazon.com. -- end update ]

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