语音学和音系学属理论语言学的核心领域。本书选编19世纪中期至20世纪30年代12位具有代表性的语言学家在这两个领域的论著17篇，向读者直观展示语音学和音系学的早期发展轨迹，为当代的语言学研究者和学习者了解语音学和音系学发展史中的这一关键阶段提供了手资料。本书可作为语言学专业研究生及英语类专业高年级本科生“语音学” “音系学” “语言学流派” “语言学史”等课程的文本阅读教材，对于其他对西方语言学思想史感兴趣的读者，亦是有价值的参考资料。

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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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 记 257