Preface to the third edition Acknowledgements IPA chart 1. Structures in languages 2. The production of speech 3. Some typology: sameness and difference 4. Making the form fit 5. Underlying and surface representations 6. Distinctive features 7. A case study: the diminutive suffix in Dutch 8. Transparency and opacity with rules and constraints 9. Levels of representation 10. Representing tone 11. Between the segment and the syllable 12. Feature geometry 13. Exploiting the feature tree 14. Stress and feet 15. Further constraining stress 16. Phonology above the word Epilogue Key to questions References Language index Subject index