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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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語音學(xué)與音系學(xué)早期經(jīng)典著作選讀

Selected Readings of Early Classics in Phonetics and Phonology

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

后 記 ...........................................................................................257