Talk:The Sound Pattern of English

The Sound Pattern of English is currently a Language and literature good article nominee. Nominated by Kisseran (talk) at 19:58, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

This article is ready to be reviewed in accordance with the good article criteria. Any editor who has not nominated or contributed significantly to this article may review the article and decide if it should be listed as a good article. To start the review process, click start review and then save the page. See the instructions.

Note: I pledge that when this article gets reviewed, I will review two other articles.

This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (center, color, defense, realize, traveled) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Books

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate in the project, please visit its page, where you can join the project and discuss matters related to book articles. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. To improve this article, please refer to the relevant guideline for the type of work.BooksWikipedia:WikiProject BooksTemplate:WikiProject BooksBook

Linguistics: Phonetics High‑importance

	Linguistics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Linguistics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of linguistics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LinguisticsWikipedia:WikiProject LinguisticsTemplate:WikiProject LinguisticsLinguistics
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by Phonetics Task Force.

[Untitled]

Latest comment: 13 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I moved these draft notes here from the article; looks like an outline of some proposed additions:

...the transformational cycle

...what kind of phonomena get explained: where stresses fall in an utterance, vocalic shift

...influence on modern phonology

sɪzlæk [ +t, +c ] 07:36, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

Ha, I love how the picture is of an old and wrinkled copy of SPE...seems fitting, somehow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.89.158.132 (talk) 17:20, 7 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

What's this about Lee Hartman?

Latest comment: 20 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

It's not that Hartman's work doesn't belong in Wikipedia, but I've never heard of it and it certainly doesn't merit a mention alongside Chomsky and Halle in the history of phonology. Someone should move it to its own page, it deserves a link at most from this page. Putting it here isn't information, it's advertising. The only reason I didn't move it already is that I don't know enough about it to go putting up a new page for it, and I didn't want to delete it outright without discussion.

Ncmc 11:19, 24 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

This page was redesigned at the edge.

A page that knows where it met you.

Talk:The Sound Pattern of English

[Untitled]

What's this about Lee Hartman?