Martin Krämer is Associate Professor in Linguistics in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Tromsø.

'A timely and timeless topic ripe for in-depth investigation, with important and fundamental implications for rule- and constraint-based theories alike. A book that every theoretical phonologist should read and debate.' Bert Vaux, University of Cambridge

• 1. Getting started; 2. Arbitrariness and opposition; 3. Derivation and abstractness; 4. Underspecification returns; 5. The devil is in the detail: usage-based phonology; 6. Psycho- and neurolinguistic evidence; 7. On the form and contents of contrastive features; 8. Underlying representations in optimality theory; 9. Preliminary results.

Martin Krämer is Associate Professor in Linguistics in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Tromsø.

'A timely and timeless topic ripe for in-depth investigation, with important and fundamental implications for rule- and constraint-based theories alike. A book that every theoretical phonologist should read and debate.' Bert Vaux, University of Cambridge

• 1. Getting started; 2. Arbitrariness and opposition; 3. Derivation and abstractness; 4. Underspecification returns; 5. The devil is in the detail: usage-based phonology; 6. Psycho- and neurolinguistic evidence; 7. On the form and contents of contrastive features; 8. Underlying representations in optimality theory; 9. Preliminary results.

Martin Krämer is Associate Professor in Linguistics in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Tromsø.

'A timely and timeless topic ripe for in-depth investigation, with important and fundamental implications for rule- and constraint-based theories alike. A book that every theoretical phonologist should read and debate.' Bert Vaux, University of Cambridge

• 1. Getting started; 2. Arbitrariness and opposition; 3. Derivation and abstractness; 4. Underspecification returns; 5. The devil is in the detail: usage-based phonology; 6. Psycho- and neurolinguistic evidence; 7. On the form and contents of contrastive features; 8. Underlying representations in optimality theory; 9. Preliminary results.