Phonology
Index of SIL publications on Phonology listed by country.
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General works
- Antworth, Evan L. 1975. Abstractness, rule ordering, and natural phonology.
- Antworth, Evan L. 1991. "Introduction to two-level phonology."
- Beal, Heather. 2008. Review of: Optimality theory: phonology, syntax, and acquisition, Joost Dekkers, Frank van der Leeuw, and Jeroen van de Weijer, editors.
- Bendor-Samuel, John T. 1991. Review of: African linguistics: Essays in memory of M. W. K. Semikenke, Didier L. Goyvaerts, editor.
- Boswell, Freddy. 2000. Review of: Introducing phonetics and phonology, by Mike Davenport and S. J. Hannahs.
- Burquest, Donald A. 1998. Phonological analysis: a functional approach.
- Burquest, Donald A. 2001. Phonological analysis: a functional approach.
- Burquest, Donald A. 2003. "Phonological analysis: a functional approach."
- Burquest, Donald A. 2006. Phonological analysis: a functional approach.
- Burquest, Donald A. and David L. Payne. 1993. Phonological analysis: a functional approach.
- Burquest, Donald A., editor. 1978. Topics in natural generative phonology.
- Cahill, Michael C. 2008. "Why labial-velar stops merge to /gb/*."
- Cahill, Michael. 1997. "Perception of consonant clusters and variable gap time."
- Cahill, Michael. 1997. Review of: Phonology and phonetic evidence, Bruce Connell and Amalia Arvanti, editors.
- Cahill, Michael. 1999. "‘Unruly’ phonology: An introduction to optimality theory."
- Cahill, Michael. 1999. "Aspects of the phonology of labial-velar stops."
- Cahill, Michael. 2000. "Positional contrast and labial-velars."
- Cahill, Michael. 2003. "The organization of phonological features."
- Cahill, Mike. 2001. Review of: Laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions, by Margaret R. MacEachern.
- Cahill, Mike. 2002. Review of: Distinctive feature theory, T. Alan Hall, editor.
- Cahill, Mike. 2003. "A sketch of labialvelar connsonants."
- Cahill, Mike. 2005. Review of: Principles of generative phonology, by John T. Jensen.
- Cahill, Mike. 2005. Review of:The internal organization of phonological segments, Marc van Oostendorp and Jeroen van de Weijer, editors.
- Cahill, Mike. 2007. Review of: The Cambridge handbook of phonology, Paul de Lacy, editor.
- Casali, Roderic F. 1996. "Vowel elision in hiatus contexts."
- Casali, Roderic F. 1998. "Predicting ATR activity."
- Casali, Roderic F. 1998. Review of: Natural phonology: the state of the art, Bernhard Hurch and Richard A. Rhodes, editors.
- Clifton, John M. 1993. Review of: Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, Michael J. Kenstowicz, editor.
- Clifton, John M. 1994. Review of: The phonology-syntax connection, Sharon Inkeles and Draga Zec, editors.
- Clifton, John M. 1995. Review of: Tonality in Austronesian languages, Jerold A. Edmondson and Kenneth J. Gregerson, editors.
- Eaton, Helen. 2007. Review of: Understanding phonology (second edition), by Carlos Gussenhoven and Haike Jacobs.
- Everett, Daniel L. 1996. Review of: Phonological analysis: a functional approach, by Donald A. Burquest and David L. Payne.
- Everett, Daniel Leonard. 1982. "Alguns comentários sobre pares mínimos."
- Grimes, Joseph E. 1969. Phonological analysis: Part one.
- Grimes, Joseph E., John R. Alsop, and Alan C. Wares. 1968. "Computer backup for field work in phonology."
- Hagberg, Lawrence R. 1993. An autosegmental theory of stress.
- Hansford, Keir. 2007. Review of: Guinea languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification, by William A. A. Wilson.
- Hunt, Geoffrey. 1992. "A good phonology program."
- Kindell, Gloria Elaine. 1977. Guia de análise fonológica.
- Kindell, Gloria Elaine. 1997. Guia de análise fonológica.
- Kroeger, Paul R. 1990. "Lexical phonology and the rebirth of the phoneme."
- Kroeger, Paul R. 1997. Review of: The phonology-syntax connection, Sharon Inkelas and Draga Zec, editors.
- Ladefoged, Peter and Norris P. McKinney. 1963. "Loudness, sound pressure, and subglottal pressure in speech."
- Lehmann, Winfred P. 1984. "The glottalic theory."
- Leitch, Myles. 1995. "Report on ACAL 26."
- Leitch, Myles. 1995. "Report on CLA 1995."
- Manfredi, Victor. 1992. "Spreading and downstep: Prosodic government in tone languages."
- Marlett, Stephen A. 1995. "Distinctive features: a review and update."
- Marlett, Stephen A. 1995. Review of: Papers in laboratory phonology II: Gesture, segment, prosody, Gerard J. Docherty and D. Robert Ladd, editors.
- Marlett, Stephen. 2003. "An introduction to phonological analysis."
- Maxwell, Michael B. 1993. Review of: Conditions on phonological government, by Monik Charette.
- Maxwell, Michael B. 1994. "Parsing using linearly ordered phonological rules."
- Maxwell, Michael B. 1994. Review of: Phonologica 1988, Wolfgang U. Dressler and others, editors.
- Maxwell, Michael B. 1997. Review of: Computational phonology: a constraint-based approach, by Steven Bird.
- Maxwell, Michael B. 1999. Review of: Derivations and constraints in phonology, Iggy Roca, editor.
- Maxwell, Michael. 2003. "Hermit Crab: parsing and generating with classical generative phonology and morphology."
- Milliken, Stuart R. 1988. Protosyllables: a theory of underlying syllable structure in nonlinear phonology.
- Nichols, David S. 1978. "Natural generative phonology: Introduction and commentary."
- Parker, Stephen G. 1994. "On the motivation for feature geometry."
- Parker, Stephen G. 1995. Review of: Phonology in generative grammar, by Michael Kenstowicz.
- Parker, Steve. 1996. "Toward a universal form for "yes": or, rhinoglottophilia and the affirmation grunt."
- Parker, Steve. 2000. "Central vs. back vowels."
- Parker, Steve. 2002. Quantifying the sonority hierarchy.
- Parker, Steve. 2009. "The transparency and density of phonological rule interactions."
- Parkhurst, Stephen. 2000. Review of: a prosodic model of sign language phonology, by Diane Brentari.
- Pearce, Mary. 1996. "Report on 25th colloquium on African languages and linguistics, University of Leiden, 28-30 August 1995."
- Pike, Eunice V. 1954. "Phonetic rank and subordination in consonant patterning and historical change."
- Pike, Eunice V. 1970. Review of: Aspects of phonological theory, by Paul M. Postal.
- Pike, Eunice V. 1974. "A multiple stress system versus a tone system."
- Pike, Eunice V. 1974. Advanced phonology workbook: a hierarchical approach.
- Pike, Eunice V. 1984. Advanced phonology workbook: a hierarchical approach.
- Pike, Eunice V. 1990. Advanced phonology workbook: a hierarchical approach.
- Pike, Evelyn G. 1994. "The higher levels of the phonological structure of a poem."
- Pike, Evelyn G. and others. 1954. Laboratory manual for Pike’s Phonemics.
- Pike, Kenneth L. 1943. Phonetics: a critical analysis of phonetic theory and a technic for the practical description of sounds.
- Pike, Kenneth L. 1947. Phonemics: a technique for reducing languages to writing.
- Pike, Kenneth L. 1948. "Problems in the teaching of practical phonemics."
- Pike, Kenneth L. 1952. "More on grammatical prerequisites."
- Pike, Kenneth L. 1952. "Operational phonemics in reference to linguistic relativity."
- Pike, Kenneth L. 1994. "Paradigmatic and syntagmatic features or prosodies in sound, syllable, word, or poem."
- Pike, Kenneth L.; Kunihiko Imai, translator. 1964. Onseigaku: onseigaku riron no hihanteki kento narabini jissaiteki onsei kijutsu no ichi shuho.
- Pittman, Richard S. 1985. "Why is voice register theory hard to plug in to phonology?."
- Pittman, Richard S. 1989. "What is a ‘register’ language?."
- Quine, Willard V. 1990. "The phoneme’s long shadow."
- Rensch, Carolyn M. 1991. Course syllabus: Introduction to phonology.
- Sagart, Laurent. 1993. "Austronesian final consonants and the origin of Chinese tones."
- Sands, Kathy Lorraine. 2004. Patternings of vocalic sequences in the world’s languages.
- Schroeder, Leila. 2008. Bantu Orthography Manual.
- Snider, Keith. 1997. Review of: Bantu phonology and morphology, Francis Katamba, editor.
- Snider, Keith. 2000. Review of: Intonational phonology, by D. Robert Ladd.
- Van Otterloo, Roger. 1978. "Tagmemic phonology and natural generative phonology: a comparison."
- Walter, Stephen L. 1978. "Philosophical differences underlying variation in phonological theory."
- Weber, David. 1998. Review of: Ellipsis: Functional heads, licensing, and identification, by Anne Lobeck.
Works specific to particular countries
Africa
Burkina Faso
- Eenkhorn-Pilon, Jacqueline, Bart Eenkhoorn and Mama Djilla. 2004. Phonologie du jôwulu ("samogho"): langue mandé du Mali et du Burkina Faso.
- Naden, Anthony J. 1985. Review of: Études gulmance (Haute-Volta): Phonologie, classes nominales, lexiques, by Bernard Surugue.
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Showalter, Stuart D. 2007. "Ghost consonants: the glottal stop in Kaansa."
Cameroon
- Anonby, Erik John. 2007. "The labial flap in Mambay: phonological rarity or fundamental element."
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Anonby, Erik John. 2008. Phonology and morphology of Mambay (Niger-Congo, Adamawa).
- Roberts, James S. 1994. "Nontonal floating features as grammatical morphemes."
- Roberts, James S. 2001. "Phonological features of Central Chadic languages."
Chad
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Olson, Kenneth S. and Paul H. Schultz. 2002. "Can [sonorant] spread?."
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Pearce, Mary. 2007. "Iambicity in Kera."
- Roberts, James S. 1994. "Nontonal floating features as grammatical morphemes."
- Weiss, Doris. 2009. Phonologie et morphosyntaxe du Maba.
Ethiopia
- Joswig, Andreas. 2006. "The status of the high central vowel in Awngi."
- Unseth, Peter. 1983. Review of: Sketch of syntagmatic phonology, by Victor M. Zhivov.
Ghana
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Cahill, Michael C. 2007. Aspects of the morphology and phonology of Kɔnni.
- Cahill, Michael. 1998. "Tonal polarity in Kɔnni nouns: an optimal theoretical account."
- Cahill, Michael. 1999. "Triple splits from proto-Buli-Kɔnni."
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Cahill, Michael. 2009. "Kɔnni vowel feature spread across consonants."
- Cahill, Mike. 1998. "Nasal assimilation and labial-velar geometry."
- Snider, Keith L. 1990. "The consonants of Proto-Guang."
Mali
Nigeria
- Bendor-Samuel, Pamela M. 1965. "Phonemic interpretation problems in some West African languages."
- Casali, Rod. 2003. "An introduction to ATR vowel harmony in African languages."
- McKinney, Carol V. and Norris P. McKinney. 1978. "Instrumental phonetics: An aid with orthography problems."
Sudan
- Gilley, Leoma. 2003. "The feature of stress in Nilotic."
- Wedekind, Klaus. 2004. "Beja pronouns and glides: dialects in search of optima."
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Wise, Mary Ruth and Richard L. Watson, editors. 1985. Occasional papers in the study of Sudanese languages no. 4.
Togo
- Nicole, Jacques. 1981. Introduction à l’analyse phonologique.
- Pike, Kenneth L. 1983. "Quelques suggestions pour les premiers stades d’une analyse linguistique."
- Roberts, David. 2004. Tonal processes in the Kabiye verb phrase.
- Roberts, David. 2005. "The variable status of nasals as tone bearing units in Kabiyè."
- Roberts, David. 2005. The tone bearing unit in Kabiye: syllable or mora?.
- Wiesemann, Ursula. 1988. "CV-analysis."
Americas
Bolivia
- Key, Mary R. 1963. Comparative phonology of the Tacanan languages.
- Van Wynen, Donald and Mabel Van Wynen. 1962. Fonemas tacana y modelos de acentuación.
Brazil
- Bridgeman, Loraine I. 2008. "Os parágrafos gramaticais, fonológicos y léxicais na língua Kaiwá."
- Everett, Daniel L. 1982. "Some remarks on ‘minimal pairs’."
- Everett, Daniel L. 1985. "Dialogue and the selection of data for a grammar."
- Kindell, Gloria Elaine. 1981. Guia de análise fonológica.
- van der Meer, Tine H. 1982. Fonologia da língua Suruí.
- Wiesemann, Ursula. 1967. "A fonologia no ensino das línguas estrangeiras."
- Wiesemann, Ursula. 1974. "The relationships between phonology-grammar-meaning."
Colombia
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Author unknown. 1976. "Notas sobre fonología y ortografía cuiba."
- Frank, Paul S. 1993. "Proto-Arhuacan phonology."
- Frank, Paul S. 2004. "A más de 100 años de los primeros estudios del Ika."
- Malone, Terry, compiler; Rodney A. Kinch and Robert Reed, editors. 1979. Fonología: ejercicios en diferentes lenguas colombianas: manual de trabajo.
- Maxwell, Michael B. 1977. Word boundaries in fast speech.
- Maxwell, Michael B. 1984. "Resegmenting as unit or sequence: Do we really need it?."
Ecuador
- Maxwell, Michael B. 1977. Word boundaries in fast speech.
- Maxwell, Michael B. 1984. "Resegmenting as unit or sequence: Do we really need it?."
Guatemala
- Collins, Wesley M. 1979. "An unlikely marriage: a merger of prosodic and phonemic analysis."
- Mayers, Marvin K. and Joyce W. Park. 1978. Discourse phonology: a manual for field linguistics.
- Pike, Kenneth L. and Charles C. Fries. 1949. "Coexistent phonemic systems."
Honduras
- Humnick, Linda Anne. 1991. The phonology-morphology interface in Paya: a lexical phonology approach.
Mexico
- Biber, Douglas. 1978. "Evidence for rule re-ordering from the Otomanguean languages."
- Black, H. Andrew. 1993. Constraint-ranked derivation: a serial approach to optimization.
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Black, H. Andrew. 2006. Constraint-ranked derivation: a serial approach to optimization.
- Bull, Brian E. 1983. "The relevance of rank and subordination to the application of phonological rules."
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Dieterman, Julia Irene. 2008. Secondary palatalization in Isthmus Mixe: a phonetic and phonological account.
- Hollenbach, Barbara E. 1975. "On hard to teach phonological units."
- Kirk, Paul L. 1966. Proto-Mazatec phonology.
- Marlett, Stephen A. 1979. "On the importance of morphophonemic alternation in phonological analysis."
- Marlett, Stephen A. 1980. "Phonology, orthography, and diacritics."
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Marlett, Stephen A. 1997. "Empty consonants in root-medial position."
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Marlett, Stephen A. 2006. "El acento, la extrametricalidad y la palabra mínima en Seri."
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Marlett, Stephen A. 2008. "Stress, extrametricality and the minimal word in Seri."
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Merrill, Elizabeth D. 2008. "The formation of causatives in Tilquiapan Zapotec."
- Pike, Eunice V. 1976. "Phonology."
- Pike, Eunice V. 1985. Additions to advanced phonology workbook.
- Pike, Eunice V. 1989. "Some environments which may condition vowel length."
- Pike, Kenneth L. 1937. "Likenesses, differences and variation of phonemes in Mexican Indian languages and how to find them."
- Pike, Kenneth L. 1947. "Grammatical prerequisites to phonemic analysis."
- Pike, Kenneth L. 1979. "Universals and phonetic hierarchy."
- Pike, Kenneth L. 1982. "Phonological hierarchy in a four-cell tagmemic representation from discourse to phoneme class."
- Pike, Kenneth L. 1985. "Systematic emic pattern above abstract etic universals: a query."
- Pike, Kenneth L. and Charles C. Fries. 1949. "Coexistent phonemic systems."
- Piper, Michael J. and Doris A. Bartholomew, editors. 1995. El protozapoteco.
- Pittman, Richard S. 1948. "Nuclear structure in linguistics."
- Rensch, Calvin R. 1968. Proto Chinantec phonology.
- Rensch, Calvin R. 1976. Comparative Otomanguean phonology.
- Robinson, Dow F. 1970. Manual for analytical procedures in phonology.
- Robinson, Dow F. 1970. Teacher’s guide to the Workbook for phonological analysis.
- Robinson, Dow F. 1970. Workbook for phonological analysis.
- Robinson, Dow F. 1980. Manual de procedimientos analíticos en fonología.
- Saporta, Sol and Donald Olson. 1958. "Classification of intervocalic clusters."
- Tuggy, David H. 1979. "On angle brackets."
- Wonderly, William L. 1948. Review of: Phonemics: a technique for reducing languages to writing, by Kenneth L. Pike.
Peru
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Black, H. Andrew. 2006. Constraint-ranked derivation: a serial approach to optimization.
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Coombs, Heidi and Ågot Bergli, editors. 2008. Estudios quechuas II.
- Hintz, Diane M. 2006. "Stress in South Conchucos Quechua: a phonetic and phonological study."
- Landerman, Peter N. 1982. "Las sibilantes castellanas, quechuas y aimaras en el siglo XVI: Un enigma tridimensional."
- Loos, Eugene E. 1969. "El nacimiento de un alfabeto."
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Loos, Eugene E., editor. 1976. Materiales para estudios fonológicos.
- Parker, Stephen G. 1992. "Geminate alterability: Another OCP violation."
- Parker, Steve. 1995. "Chamicuro laterals: a case for radical underspecification."
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Toliver, Ralph H. 1992. "¿Fonéticos o fonémicos? Cambios lingüísticos en los dialectos quechuas de Pasco y Huánuco."
- Toliver, Ralph H. 2008. "Procesos de préstamo y el proceso de afecto en sobrenombres de quechua."
- Wise, Mary Ruth. 2007. "Algunas preguntas sobre la metátesis y fenómenos relacionados en el Amuesha."
Suriname
United States
- Davis, Irvine. 1989. "A new look at Aztec-Tanoan."
- Kuhn, Hanna, Noreen Pym, and John C. Tuggy. 1981. Discourse phonology.
- Law, Howard W. 1990. "The Indians do say ugh-ugh!."
- Milliken, Margaret E. 1988. Phonological divergence and intelligibility: a case study of English and Scots.
Asia
Bhutan
China
- Matisoff, James A. 1988. "Proto-Hlai initials and tones: a first approximation."
- Pelkey, Jamin R. 2007. "Muji's mirrored merger: correlative redistribution of checked tone classes in a newly defined Burmic cluster."
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Theraphan L.- Thonkum. 1992. "A preliminary reconstruction of Proto-Lakkja (Cha Shan Yao)."
India
Indonesia
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Anderbeck, Karl. 2006. "An initial reconstruction of proto-Lampungic: phonology and basic vocabulary."
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Burung, Willem. 2007. "The Phonology of Wano."
- Gasaway, Eileen. 1980. Review of: Woiskia II: Phonemics, by W. A. L. Stokhof.
- Grimes, Charles E. 1997. "Compounding and semantic bleaching in languages of eastern Indonesia."
- Loski, Russell A. 1982. Subject deaccenting and the rhythm rule.
- Martens, Michael P. 1979. Review of: Foundations of theoretical phonology, by James Foley.
- Mead, David. 1998. Proto-Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax.
- Schane, Sanford A. and Birgitte Bendixen. 1992. Buku latihan fonologi generatif.
- Shelden, Deidre B. 1980. Review of: Current approaches to phonological theory, Daniel A. Dinnsen, editor.
- van den Berg, René. 1991. "Muna historical phonology."
Japan
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines
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Jacobson, Marc R. 1979. "Phones in Philippine languages."
- Newell, Leonard E. 1962. "Minimizing dialect distinctions through phonemics."
Russian Federation
Thailand
- Chalermchai, Chaichompoo. 2006. "Segmental variation of Vietnamese in northeastern Thailand."
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Paulsen, Debbie. 1992. "A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Plang."
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Preecha Sukkasem. 2005. "Phonological variations and changes due to language contact: a case study of consonants in four Kuai-Kui (Suai) dialects."
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Siripen Ungsitipoonporn. 2009. "The Bangkok Hakka phonology."
- Thomas, David D. 1981. "Phonemics and polysystemic phonology."
Viet Nam
- Banker, John E. 1984. Review of: Mon-Khmer studies XI, Philip N. Jenner, editor.
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Ferlus, Michel. 1992. "Histoire abregée de l’évolution des consonnes initiales du Vietnamien et du Sino-Vietnamien."
- Friberg, Barbara. 1972. Generative phonology as applied to Vietnamese dialects: a study based on Middle Vietnamese, comparing the three major dialects of Modern Vietnamese.
- Gregerson, Kenneth J. 1976. "Tongue-root and register in Mon-Khmer."
- Lee, Ernest W. 1966. Proto-Chamic phonologic word and vocabulary.
- Pelkey, Jamin R. 2007. "Muji's mirrored merger: correlative redistribution of checked tone classes in a newly defined Burmic cluster."
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Pittman, Richard S. 1996. "Southeast Asian refinement to phonological theory."
- Thomas, David D. 1966. "Checking vowel contrasts by rhyming."
Europe
Russian Federation
Pacific
Australia
- Elliott, George, compiler. 1983. Phonemics assignment book.
- Elliott, George, compiler. 1983. Phonemics handbook.
- Oates, William J. 1967. "Syllable patterning and phonetically complex consonants in some Australian languages."
Papua New Guinea
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Årsjö, Britten and Sören Årsjö. 2009. Organised phonology data Konai (Kala̱i̱) language.
- Baron, Wietze. 1979. "Light from the dark ages of Chomsky and Halle’s ‘Abstract phonology’."
- Clifton, John M. 1988. "Nonsyllabic vocoids."
- Drew, Julia. 2008. "Kwomtari phonology essentials."
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Ezard, Janet. 2008. Iamalele phonemics.
- Firchow, Irwin B. and Jacqueline Firchow. 1969. "An abbreviated phoneme inventory."
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Hardwick, Roma. [1967]. Manga Buang phonological hierarchy part I.
- Hemmilä, Ritva, compiler. 1999. Orthography and phonology database: highlands and Papuan regions.
- Hemmilä, Ritva. 1998. Orthography and phonology database: Islands and Momase regions.
- Hooley, Bruce A. 1975. "Are there prenasalized stops in Oceania?."
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Lindstrom, John. 2008. Organised phonology data (Hote).
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McGuckin, Catherine and C. Edward McGuckin. 2008. Gapapaiwa organised phonology data - updated April 2008.
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Parker, Steve. 2009. "An affix-specific phoneme in Arammba."
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Pearson, Greg. 2009. Organised phonology data: Lote (Uvol language).
- Phillips, Donald J. 1973. "The influence of English on a tribal alphabet; or, The phoneme or the allophone?."
- Pike, Eunice V. 1964. "The phonology of New Guinea Highlands languages."
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Potts, Denise, Dorothy James and Ellis Deibler. 1974. Yaweyuha phonemes.
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Sampson, Nancy and Joyce Huckett. 1965. Vivigana phonemes.
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Speece, Richard F. 1987. "How shall we write what was left when the labialized post velar lost its velar?."
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Stober, Scot. 2009. Mato organised phonology data.
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Van der Meer, Hans. 2008. Bau organized phonology data.
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Wearne, Helen and Pat Wilson. 2008. Ambulas phonemes.
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Weimer, Harry and Natalia Weimer. 1977. Phoneme comparisons of the Yareban languages.
- Wood, Joyce and others. 2008. Organised phonology data: Banoni (Tsunari) Mabes dialect [bcm] - North Solomons province.