Phonology

This unique and innovative textbook elevates phonological analysis by teaching it hand in hand with mathematical and logical reasoning. Every student of linguistics should read this book.

Jeffrey Heinz, Professor, Department of Linguistics, Institute of Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University; coauthor of Grammatical Inference for Computational Linguistics: Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies

This book, taking nothing for granted, meticulously captures the beauty of phonology as a formal system within the human mind. With vivid and memorable explanations, it opens new possibilities for the fully integrated teaching of phonology with mathematics, philosophy, and computer science.

Yuni Kim, Lecturer in Phonology, University of Essex

This is a unique and very successful textbook. It is formally rigorous, addressing many issues of how phonological analyses actually work that are left out of other books. But it is also very didactic in introducing all of the concepts in manageable servings and offers a generous number of practice problems tailored directly to the issues at hand.

William J. Idsardi, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland

Phonology was arguably the first among the cognitive sciences to receive rigorous mathematical formalization, but this is sometimes forgotten. In the first book to lay out the field's very precise logical modes of argumentation explicitly for the beginning student, Bale and Reiss show how much can be gained from a cognitive approach to phonology by means of formal tools.

Marc van Oostendorp, Meertens Instituut, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences