Noel Burton-Roberts is Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His interests include semantics, pragmatics, the architecture of the language faculty, the nature/status of phonology, and sign theory. He is the author of 'The Limits to Debate: A revised theory of semantic presupposition' (1989) and 'Analysing Sentences' (1997).Philip Carr is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University Paul Valery (Montpellier III), France. His interests include phonology and the philosophy of linguistics. He is the author of 'Linguistics Realities' (1990), 'Phonology' (1993), and 'English Phonetics and Phonology' (1999).Gerard Docherty is Senior Lecturer, Department of Speech, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His interests include phonetics, phonological variation, and disordered speech production. He is the author of 'The Timing of Voicing in British English Obstruents' (1992), and co-editor of 'Urban Voices: Phonological variation and change in the British Isles' (2000).

The volume has appeared at a specially opportune moment ... In the Introduction the editors do an admirable job not only of summarizing the content of each paper, but also of identifying and highlighting recurrent themes, and of locating each contribution within a taxonomy of approaches to the nature of phonology ... a volume of intellectual richness.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Ontology of Phonology ; 3. Where and What is Phonology? A representational perspective ; 4. Scientific Realism, Sociophonetic Variation, and Innate Endowments in Phonology ; 5. Speaker, Speech, and Knowledge of Sounds ; 6. Phonology and Phonetics in Psycholinguistic Models of Speech Perception ; 7. Phonology as Cognition ; 8. Vowel Patterns in Mind and Sound ; 9. Boundary Disputes: The distinction between phonetic and phonological sound patterns ; 10. Conceptual Foundations of Phonology as a Laboratory Science ; 11. Modularity and Modality in Phonology ; 12. Phonetics and the Origin of Phonology

Noel Burton-Roberts is Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His interests include semantics, pragmatics, the architecture of the language faculty, the nature/status of phonology, and sign theory. He is the author of 'The Limits to Debate: A revised theory of semantic presupposition' (1989) and 'Analysing Sentences' (1997).Philip Carr is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University Paul Valery (Montpellier III), France. His interests include phonology and the philosophy of linguistics. He is the author of 'Linguistics Realities' (1990), 'Phonology' (1993), and 'English Phonetics and Phonology' (1999).Gerard Docherty is Senior Lecturer, Department of Speech, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His interests include phonetics, phonological variation, and disordered speech production. He is the author of 'The Timing of Voicing in British English Obstruents' (1992), and co-editor of 'Urban Voices: Phonological variation and change in the British Isles' (2000).

The volume has appeared at a specially opportune moment ... In the Introduction the editors do an admirable job not only of summarizing the content of each paper, but also of identifying and highlighting recurrent themes, and of locating each contribution within a taxonomy of approaches to the nature of phonology ... a volume of intellectual richness.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Ontology of Phonology ; 3. Where and What is Phonology? A representational perspective ; 4. Scientific Realism, Sociophonetic Variation, and Innate Endowments in Phonology ; 5. Speaker, Speech, and Knowledge of Sounds ; 6. Phonology and Phonetics in Psycholinguistic Models of Speech Perception ; 7. Phonology as Cognition ; 8. Vowel Patterns in Mind and Sound ; 9. Boundary Disputes: The distinction between phonetic and phonological sound patterns ; 10. Conceptual Foundations of Phonology as a Laboratory Science ; 11. Modularity and Modality in Phonology ; 12. Phonetics and the Origin of Phonology