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Understanding Phonology

book by Carlos Gussenhoven

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ111939795 ↗
Source-derived summary

Understanding Phonology is a textbook by Carlos Gussenhoven and Haike Jacobs designed for an introductory course in phonology for students with no prior knowledge.

Reception

The book was reviewed by Alain Thériault, Elizabeth Hume, Jeff Mielke, Ken Lodge and David Deterding.

Editorial summary

“Understanding Phonology” enters the record as book by Carlos Gussenhoven. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Understanding, Phonology and book can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current 41-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Understanding, Phonology and book.
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Why this record matters

“Understanding Phonology” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Understanding, Phonology and book provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111939795. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Understanding Phonology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.