Phonology in Context

MARTHA C. PENNINGTON is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, USA. She formerly held the positions of Powdrill Professor of English Language Acquisition and Head of the Language Research Centre at University of Luton, UK, and Professor of English at City University of Hog Kong. Her published works include Phonology in English Language Teaching: An International Approach and, as co-author with Rodney Jones, Researching and Teaching Pronunciation (forthcoming).

• Notes on Contributors The Context of Phonology; M.C.Pennington Phonology in Infancy and Early Childhood: Implications for Theories of Language Learning; S.L.Velleman & M.M.Vihman The Description and Acquisition of Variable Phonological Patterns: Phonology and Sociolinguistics; P.Kerswill & L.Shockey Contact Phonology; N.Smith Second-Language Phonology: The Role of Perception; P.Escudero The Visual Element in Phonological Perception and Learning; D.M.Hardison Sounds, Brain, and Evolution: Or, Why Phonology Is Plural; A.McMahon Situated Phonologies: Patterns of Phonology in Discourse Contexts; E.Couper-Kuhlen Phonology and Literacy; K.Koda Research and Practice in Developmental Phonological Disorders; F.E.Gibbon Technological Advances in Researching and Teaching Phonology; D.M.Chun Index

'Readers will experience the kind of intellectual excitement that comes with an academic subject being brought back to life for them. It is a must-read for graduate students and researchers, for whom it will be an indispensable reference.' - K. K. Luke, University of Hong Kong 'Martha Pennington has gathered here researchers at the cutting edge...enabling a synthesis which marks the vibrancy, theoretical sophistication, and broad applicability of phonology as it is understood today. Common to these new understandings are realizations of how phonology is shaped by dynamic processes of usage. This book will stimulate and inform experts and novices alike.' - Nick Ellis, University of Michigan