The Oxford History of Phonology

B. Elan Dresher is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He has published on phonological theory, learnability, historical linguistics, West Germanic and Biblical Hebrew phonology and prosody, and the history of phonology. He is the author of Old English and the Theory of Phonology (1985/2019) and The Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology (2009). His research has been published in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry,Language, Linguistic Variation, Annual Review of Linguistics, and Transactions of the Philological Society, and in edited volumes from OUP and Wiley-Blackwell.Harry van der Hulst is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. His research interests include stress, syllabic structure, segmental structure, sign language, gesture, language evolution, and phonological acquisition. His many books include Word Stress: Theoretical and Typological Issues (CUP, 2014), Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony: A Representational Account (OUP, 2018), and Principles of Radical CV Phonology: A Theory of Segmental and SyllabicStructure (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal The Linguistic Review and co-editor of the Mouton de Gruyter series 'Studies in Generative Grammar'.