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Kuniya Nasukawa is Professor of English Linguistics at Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan. He is the author of A Unified Approach to Nasality and Voicing and has edited or co-edited several volumes including Strength Relations in Phonology and Morpheme-internal Recursion in Phonology. Bridget Samuels is Project Director in the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology at the University of Southern California. She has taught at Harvard University, the University of Maryland, and Pomona College. She is author of Phonological Architecture: A Biolinguistic Perspective and associate editor of Biolinguistics. Geoffrey Schwartz is Professor in the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä, Poland. His research focuses on the Onset Prominence representational framework and L2 phonological acquisition, with publications in the Journal of Linguistics, Phonology, Second Language Research, and Language Acquisition. Miklós Törkenczy is Professor in the Department of English Linguistics and the Department of Theoretical Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He is co-author of The Phonology of Hungarian and author of Hungarian Verbs and Essentials of Grammar.

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The field-defining phonology reference, now fully updated and expanded Now in its Second Edition, A Companion to Phonology remains the only multi-volume reference providing a full overview of the field. Prepared by a new editorial team, the second edition features 160 articles which include 81 fully updated articles and 43 wholly new articles reflecting major developments over the past 15 years. This major reference work is unique among works on phonology for its focus on engaging case studies which clearly connect theory to research practice. New chapters address language games, onomatopoeia, the syntax-phonology interface, neuroscience, lexical conservatism and defectiveness, phonological ambiguity, usage-based approaches, and tone across many languages, as well as in-depth examinations of additional phonological phenomena such as stridents, retroflexes, and phonation type. Contributors bring global perspectives to the study of phonology, with particular attention to non-Anglophone research contexts. Each entry strengthens connections between theory and practice, serving both as a theoretical reference and as a model for research methodology applicable to beginning and experienced researchers. Readers will find:

• Explicit demonstrations of how theoretical frameworks translate into practical research design and analytical methodology in each chapter
• An internationally diverse contributor base ensuring balanced representation of phonological traditions beyond Anglophone scholarship
• A reader-friendly structural design that welcomes students to advanced phonological scholarship An authoritative reference for scholars and advanced students in phonology, this work also serves researchers in phonetics, language acquisition, speech sciences, sociolinguistics, cognitive science, and neurolinguistics. Its integration of theory and case-study methodology makes it equally valuable for experienced phonologists and those entering the field.