As an accompanying volume to A Course in Phonology or as a separate text, this book provides the user with a wealth of exercises in phonology covering a range of topics, including optimality theory, in a concise and accessible form.

Iggy Roca is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. He specializes in phonology and is the author of Generative Phonology (1994). Among the volumes he has edited is Derivations and Constraints in Phonology (1997).

Wyn Johnson wrote her doctorate on the lexical phonology of French, and has been teaching phonology at the University of Essex since 1983.