A history of the French language through texts By Wendy Ayres-Bennett (review)

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904 LANGUAGE, VOLUME 73, NUMBER 4 (1997) A dictionary of phonetics and phonology · By R· L- Trask. London & New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. xii, 424. Terms to describe speech sounds have proliferated over the years as phoneticians and linguists have freely created and redefined terminology as they saw fit. Recommendations of the IPA are often ignored, and each phonological theory develops new or redefines old terminology to express new concepts. While this creativity enables an author to provide a logically consistent presentation within his or her own work, it also challenges readers, whether they be beginning students or seasoned linguists, to figure out what is intended. Trask's dictionary will be enormously useful in learning unfamiliar terminology and may also help writers to select existing terms to meet their needs rather than adding new ones. The dictionary encompasses not only currently fashionable phonetic and phonological terms but also those in older works, including some wh

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