Elementary phonology from an advanced point of view A gloss on K&K

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Arnold Zwicky

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The function of a textbook is to introduce concepts and principles and to motivate them. In some cases this is done explicitly; these are the official lessons of the text. But in many cases ideas are presented by assumption, by example, or by inference. There is nothing reprehensible in the latter practice. Indeed, in an introductory text it is absolutely necessary; the point is to induce a conceptual framework and a set of skills, not primarily to expose the foundations of the discipline, and a good textbook mixes explicit and implicit presentation in an artful way.

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