SIL Publications by Category
Phonology

Aspects of the Morphology and Phonology of Konni by Michael C Cahill, PL 141, 2007, 537 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-184-8 $50.00

This study combines a descriptive and theoretical presentation of Kɔnni, a Gur language of northern Ghana. It presents an Optimality Theory analysis of the entire phonological system.

Aspects of Zaiwa Prosody: An Autosegmental Account by Mark W. Wannemacher, PL 129,1998, 168 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-054-4, $30.50

Presents a generative and autosegmental phonological analysis of the Zaiwa language with emphasis on prosodic components.

An Autosegmental Approach to Shilluk Phonology by Leoma G. Gilley, PL 103, 1992, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-106-1, $18.00

Analyzes Shilluk (Western Nilotic, southern Sudan) using an autosegmental approach based on lexical phonology.

The Dong Language in Guizhou Province, China by Guoqiao Zheng;Yaohong Long; translated by D. Norman Geary, PL 126, 1998, 284 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-051-3, $30.50

Presents studies of Dong (2.5 million in southwestern China) history, culture, tonal language, grammar, phonology, lexicon and orthography.

The Doyayo Language: Selected Studies by Marinus Wiering; Elisabeth Wiering, PL 121, 1994, 309 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-620-2, $29.00

Presents five articles about the features of Doyayo: phonology, indicative verb structure, tone patterns of nominals, major syntactic structures and folk tales.

The Kifuliiru Language, Volume 1: Phonology, Tone, and Morphological Derivation, by Karen Van Otterloo, PL 146, 2011, 516 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-261-6, $52.99

This volume on Kifuliiru, a Bantu (J) language of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and its companion volume, The Kifuliiru Language: Volume 2: A Descriptive Grammar, is one of the most thorough and yet readable Bantu grammars available.

Mamaindé Stress: The Need for Strata by David Eberhard, PL 122, 1995, 169 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-003-2, $26.50

Analyzes the stress, phonology, aand morphology system of Mamaindé. Uses metrical and lexical phonology.
The Mamainde, a language of Brazil is also known as Northern Nambikuára (Ethnologue, 15th Ed.2005)

Notes on Mada Phonology by Norman Price, LDAFS 23, 1989, 55 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-600-4, $9.00

Mada is spoken in southeastern Nigeria and is a member of the Benue-Congo subfamily of languages.

The Phonicon 1.0, 1 CD-ROM, developed jointly by Dr. M. Stanley Whitley & Bakhit Kourman, and produced & published by SIL, 2004, ISBN 978-1-55671-136-7, $39.95

The Phonicon is an electronic encyclopedia of the speech sounds or phones of the world’s languages and ways those sounds are described and analyzed. This product is for Windows only.

Phonological Analysis: A Functional Approach by Donald A. Burquest, 3rd edition, 2006, 335 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-168-8, $34.95

Intended for use in an upper division introductory course in phonology, preparing the student to further study aspects of current theory.

Phonological Studies in Four Languages of Maluku edited by Wyn D. Laidig; Donald A. Burquest, PL 108, 1992, 235 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-803-9, $18.00

Describes the phonologies of Sawai, Kisar, Larike and West Tarangan (Indonesia).

A Phonological Study of the Gwari Lects by Heidi James Rosendall, LDAFS 24, 1992, 128 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-186-3, $10.50

A phonological study of the four Gwari lects (Nigeria): Northern and Southern Gbagyi and Northern and Southern Gbari.

The Phonology of Mono by Kenneth Olson, PL 140, 2005, 311 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-160-2, $29.00

This describes the sound system of Mono, a Banda language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Phonology of Two Central Chadic Languages, by Tony Smith and Richard Gravina, PL 144, 2010, 267 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-231-9 $32.00

The Muyang and Mbuko phonologies present typologically unusual data, the bulk of which is found in the vowel systems. The works in this volume are the result of years of intensive contact with the speakers of Muyang and Mbuko by the authors.