Bibliography of Firthian Prosodic Analysis
—including references to ‘York’ papers and some material which forms a commentary on FPA.
Collections of papers
The first three are collections of papers of analyses. Firth’s writings are more theoretical and speculative.
Bazell, C.E., Catford, J.C., Halliday, M. A. K. & Robins, R. H. (eds.) (1966): In memory of J. R. Firth.  London: Longmans
Palmer, F. R. (ed.) (1970). Prosodic Analysis . London: Oxford University Press.
Studies in Linguistic Analysis (SLA) (1957): Special Volume of the Philological Society, 2nd edition, 1962.
Firth, J. R. (1937): The Tongues of Men and Speech. Reprinted, London: OUP, 1964, 1966.
Firth, J. R. (1957): Papers in Linguistics 1934-51. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Firth, J. R. (1968): Selected Papers of J.R. Firth 1952-1959. (Ed. by Palmer, F. R.).  London: Longmans. 
‘Classic’ material
Not all the papers that could be in this list are: in particular, several papers which are in the collections mentioned above are not lsited again here for the sake of economy.
Albrow, K. (1962). The phonology of the personal forms of the verb in Russian. Archivum Linguisticum 14. 146-56.
Albrow, K. (1966). Mutation in ‘Spoken North Welsh’. In Bazell, et al., 1-7.
Allen, W. S. (1951). Some prosodic aspects of retroflexion and aspiration in Sanskrit. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 13, 939-946. (Reprinted in Palmer (1970), 82-90.)
Carnochan, J. (1952): Glottalization in Hausa. Transactions of the Philological Society 1952. 78-109.
Carnochan, J. (1957). Gemination in Hausa. SLA, 49-81.
Carnochan, J. (1960). Vowel harmony in Igbo. African Language Studies. 155-163. (Reprinted in Palmer (1970), 222-229.)
Carnochan, J. (1961). Pitch, tone and intonation in Igbo. Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, Helsinki, 547-54.
Firth, J. R. (1935). The use and distribution of certain English sounds. English Studies 17. 2-12. (Reprinted in Papers in Linguistics 1934-51. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 34-46.)
Firth, J. R. (1948). Sounds and Prosodies. (Reprinted in Palmer (1970), 1-26.)
Firth, J. R. et al (1954 ms): Notes for a Handbook on Phonetics and Phonology. York Prosodic Archive.
Firth, J. R. (1957): A synopsis of Linguistic Theory, 1930-1955. SLA, 1-32.
Haas, W. (1966). Linguistic relevance. In Bazell et al., 116-147.
Halliday, M. A. K. (1959). Phonological (prosodic) analysis of the new Chinese syllable (modern Pekingese). Appendix to Secret History of the Mongols. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 192-204. (Reprinted in Palmer (1970), 201-213.)
Halliday, M. A. K. (1961): Categories of a theory of grammar. Word 17.3, 241-292. Gives formal definitions for many of the terms used by Firthian phonologists, eg. “system” and “structure”, but in a framework for syntaz.
Henderson, E. J. A. (1949). Prosodies in Siamese. Asia major I. 189-215. (Reprinted in Palmer (1970), 27-53)
Henderson, E. J. A. (1951). The phonology of loanwords in some South-East Asian languages. Transactions of the Philological Society. 131-158. (Reprinted in Palmer (1970), 54-81.)
Henderson, E. J. A. (1961): Tonal exponents of pronominal concord in Southern Vietnamese. Indian Linguistics 86-97.
Henderson, Eugénie J. A. (1966): Towards a Prosodic Statement of Vietnamese Syllable Structure. In Bazell et al., 163-197.
Mitchell, T. F. (1953): Particle-noun complexes in a Berber dialect. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, XV, 375-390.
Mitchell, T. F. (1957). Long consonants in phonology and phonetics. SLA, 182-205.
Mitchell, T. F. (1975). Principles of Firthian Linguistics. London: Longmans.
Palmer, F. R. (1955). The ‘broken plurals’ of Tigrinya. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 17. 548-66. In Palmer (1970), 133-151.
Palmer, F. R. (1956). ‘Openness’ in Tigre: a problem in prosodic statement. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 18. 561-577. (Reprinted in Palmer (1970), 157-173.)
Palmer, F. R. (1957). Gemination in Tigrinya. SLA, 134-148.
Palmer, F. R. (1958). Linguistic hierarchy. Lingua 7. 225-241.
Robins, R. H. (1957b). Vowel nasality in Sundanese: a phonological and grammatical study. SLA, 87-103.
Sharp, A. E. (1954). A tonal analysis of the disyllabic noun in the Machame dialect of Chaga. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 16. 157-69.
Sprigg, R. K. (1955). The tonal system of Tibetan and the nominal phrase. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 17. 134-53. (Reprinted in Palmer (1970), 112-132.)
Sprigg, R. K. (1957). Junction in spoken Burmese. SLA, 104-138.
Sprigg, R. K. (1961). Vowel harmony in Lhasa Tibetan: prosodic analysis applied to interrelated vocalic features of successive syllables. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 24. 116-138. (Reprinted in Palmer (1970), 230-252.)
Sprigg, R. K. (1966). Phonological formulae for the verb in Limbu as a contribution to Tibeto-Burman comparison. In Bazell et al., 431-53.
Sprigg, R. K. (1967). Prosodic analysis and Burmese syllable-initial features. Journal of the Burma Research Socitety  L. ii.
Sprigg, R. K. (1983). Newari as a language without vowel systems. Nepalese Linguistics 2. 1-22.
Sprigg, R. K. (1985). Alphabet or syllabary: ‘New wine into old bottles’. In Thurgood, G., Matisoff, J. A., Bradley, D., (eds.) Linguistics in the Sino-Tibetan area: the state of the art. Pacific linguistics, C-87. Canberra: The Australian National University,.
Sprigg, R. K. (1987a): The Nepali Language with reference to is relationship with the Rai, Limbu and Lepcha languages. Journal of the Linguistic Society of India 48. 87-100.
Sprigg, R. K. (1987b). Three problems in Bantawa Rai phonology (and three unorthodox solutions). Nepalese Linguistics 4. 1-33.
Sprigg, R. K. (1990). Tone in Tamang and Tibetan, and the advantages of keeping register-based tone systems separate from contour-based tone systems. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area 13.1. 33-56.
Sprigg, R. K. (1991). The spelling-style pronunciation of written Tibetan, and the hazards of using citation forms in the phonological analysis of spoken Tibetan. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area 14. 2. 93-131.
Sprigg, R. K. (1992). Bantawa Rai s- t- and z-final verb roots: transitives, intransitives, causatives, and directives. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area 15. 1. 39-52.
Waterson, N. (1956). Some aspects of the phonology of the nominal forms of the Turkish word. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 18. 578-591. (Reprinted in Palmer (1970), 174-187.)
Waterson, N. (1987). Prosodic phonology: the theory and its application to language acquisition and speech processing. Newcastle upon Tyne: Grevatt & Grevatt.
Waterson, N. (1991). Invariant auditory patterns in speech processing: an explanation for nomalisation. Perilus XIV. Stockholm. 119-124.
Whitley, Eileen (ms): Phonetic Analysis and Phonological Statement. Notes from a lecture course, taken by Eugénie Henderson. York: Firthian Prosodic Archive.
‘Modern’ material (incl. York material)
Abdoullaye, D. & Kelly J. (1985). On the ‘compound’ tone in Migaama. African Linguistics: essays in memory of M W K Semikenke. Studies in the Sciences of Languages 6. 1-7.
Coleman, J. C. (1991a). Non-pitch exponents of accent and structure in Japanese. York Papers in Linguitics 15. 41-92.
Coleman, J. C. (1991b). Phonological representations — their names, forms and powers. D. Phil thesis, University of York.
Coleman, J. C. & Local, J. K. (1991): The “no crossing constraint” in autosegmental phonology. Linguistics and Philosophy 14. 295-338.
Kelly, J. (1985a). Phonograms for Sabaki: an experiment in method. In Maw, J. & Parkin, D. (eds). Swahili Language and Society. Veröffentlichungen der Institute für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie der Universität Wien 33, Beiträge zur Afrikanistik 23.
Kelly, J. (1985b). On junction in two Kisiu nasal classes. African linguistics: essays in memory of M W K Semikenke. Studies in the Sciences of Languages 6. 309-317.
Kelly, J. (1988): The velar labials in ChiDigo. In Bradley, D., Henderson, E. J. A. & Azaudon, M. (eds.) Prosodic analysis and Asian linguistics: to Honour R. K. Sprigg. Pacific linguistics C-104, 43-50.
Kelly, J. (1989). Swahili phonological structure: a prosodic view. In Rombi, M.-F. (ed.), Le Swahili et ses limites: Ambiguïté des notions reçues. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 25-31.
Kelly, J. (1991). Glides and phonological change in Mombasan Swahili. York Papers in Linguistics 15. 139-148.
Kelly, J. (1992a). Systems for open syllabics in North Welsh. In Tench P. (ed.)Studies in Systemic phonology   London & New York: Pinter Publishers. 87-97. 
Kelly, J. (1992b). Xhosa Isinkalakahliso again. York Papers in Linguistics 16. 19-35.
Kelly, J. & Local, J. K. (1986). Long-domain resonance patterns in English. Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Input/Output, Institute of Electronic Engineers. 304-308.
Kelly, J. & Local, J. K. (1989). Doing phonology. Manchester, Manchester University Press.
Local, J. K. (1990). Some rhythm, resonance and quality variations in urban Tyneside Speech. In Ramsaran S. (ed.) Studies in the pronunciation of English: A commemorative volume in honour of A.C.Gimson. London: Routledge. 286-292.
Local, J. K. (1992). Modelling assimilation in a non-segmental rule-free phonology. In Docherty G. J. & Ladd D. R. (eds.). Papers in laboratory phonology II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 190-223.
Local, J. K. (1993). The ‘segmental’ intelligibility of the YorkTalk non-segmental speech synthesis system. York Research Papers in Linguistics.
Local, J. K. & Kelly, J. (1986): Projection and ‘silences’: Notes on phonetic and conversational structure. Human Studies 9: 185-204.
Local, J. K., Kelly, J. & Wells, W. (1986): Towards a phonology of conversation: turn-taking in Tyneside English. Journal of Linguistics 22, 411-437.
Local, J. K. & Simpson, A. (1988): The domain of gemintion in Malayalam. In Bradley, D., Henderson, E. J. A. & Azaudon, M. (eds.) Prosodic analysis and Asian linguistics: to Honour R. K. Sprigg. Pacific linguistics C-104, 33-42.
Ogden, Richard (1992). Parametric interpretation in YorkTalk. York Papers in Linguistics 16. 81-99.
Ogden, Richard (1993). What Firthian Prosodic Analysis has to say to us. Edinburtgh Working Papers in Cognitive Science, Vol. 8: Computational Phonology. 107-127.
Ogden, Richard (1995): An exploration of phonetic exponency in Firthian Prosodic Analysis: form and substance in Finnish phonology. D.Phil. thesis, University of York.
Ogden, Richard & John Local (1994): Disentangling prosodies from autosegments: a note on the misrepresentation of a research tradition. JL. 
Simpson, A. (1992a). Casual speech rules and what the phonology of connected speech might really be like. Linguistics 30. 535-548.
Simpson, A. (1992b). Writing phonological statements from naturally occurring talk — an experiment in method. D. Phil thesis, University of York.
Simpson, A. (1992c). The phonologies of the English auxiliary system. In Tracy, R. (ed.). Who Climbs the grammar tree? Tübingen: Niemeyer. 209-219.
Wells, W. H. G. (1992). Junction in developmental speech disorder. National Hospital's College of Speech Sciences: Work in Progress  2. 83-108.
Wells, W. H. G. & Local, J. K. (1993). The sense of an ending: a case of prosodic delay. Clinical linguistics and phonetics 7. 59-73.
Background material (history etc.)
These are chosen because they are primarily descriptive and don’t offer much in the way of appraisal; but the overlap between things that could go in this section and the next is rather large. I have restricted myself here to things that are more personal and less theoretical, though Anderson is an especially good description of FPA.
Anderson, S. R. (1985). Phonology in the twentieth century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter on Firth.
De Beaugrande, Robert (1991): Linguistic theory: the discourse of fundamental works. London: Longman. Chapter on Firth (and Halliday).
Commentaries on FPA
Broe, M. (1991): A unification-based approach to Prosodic Analysis. Edinburgh Working Papers in Cognitive Science 7, 27-44. Contains a reworking of Allen (1957) (Harauti aspiration) in UG terms; unfortunately he misinterprets ‘prosody’ and confuses phonetic exponents with phonological features.
Broe, M. (1993): Specification theory: the treatment of redundancy in generative phonology. Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh. Contains some discussion of FPA; principally Allen. Ch. 3 = Broe (1991)
Fromkin, V. (1965). On system-structure phonology. Language 41. 601-610.
Fudge, Erik C. (1972): Phonology and Phonetics. In Current Trends in Linguistics 9. Mouton. pp. 266-276 are about “Prosodic Phonology”.
Goldsmith, J. A. (1992). A note on the genealogy of research tradition in modern phonology. Journal of Linguistics  28 1. 149-63. A paper comparing FPA and autosegmental phonology; cf. Ogden & Local 1994.
Griffen, Toby D. (1985): Aspects of Dynamic Phonology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science IV, Vol. 37.) Chapters 1 & 2 in particular contain material about FPA; something like Coleman 1992, but a concrete view of phonology (phonological categories = a subset of phonetic features.) Also Ch. 12 about ‘vowels’ in Chinese picks up FPA theme and discussion.
Henderson, Eugénie J. A. (1982): Phonetics and Phonology in the Eighties: Prospects and Problems. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Linguists. The Hague: CIPL. 209-219.
Henderson, Eugénie J. A. (1987): J. R. Firth in retrospect: a view from the eighties. In R. Steele & T. Threadgold (eds.) Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Hill, T. (1966). The technique of prosodic analysis. In Bazell et al., 198-226.
Kohler, K. (1967): Firthian Linguistics and the generative approach. Phonetica 17: 193-201.
Langendoen, D. T. (1968). The London school of linguistics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. A highly unsympathetic view. Criticised somewhat in Henderson (1987).
Lass, Roger (1984): Phonology: An introduction to basic concepts. Cambridge: CUP. Chapter 10 in particular. This isn’t great, but it’s better than many. Reminiscent of Lyons (1962).
Lyons, J. (1962): Phonemic and non-phonemic phonology: some typological reflections. IJAL 28, 127-34. This paper is universally detested by the Prosodic Analysts: it was a paper in a major journal, and it misrepresents FPA. 
Ogden, Richard & John Local (1994): Disentangling prosodies from autosegments: a note on the misrepresentation of a research tradition. JL. 
Roberts, E. Wyn (1979): Perspectives in Prosodic Phonology II: Eugénie J. A. Henderson. Lingua 48, 101-122. Contains many useful personal communications of EJAH, but pretty unfathomable commentary on her work.
Robins, R. H. (1957a). Aspects of Prosodic Analysis. Proceedings of the University of Durham Philosophical Society 1. 1-12. (Reprinted in Palmer 1970.)