Stephen R.Anderson所著的《二十世纪音系学》(Phonology in the Twentieth Century)1985年由美国芝加哥大学出版社出版。本书全面回顾了自1880到1979这一百年来音系理论发展的历史,比较详实地描述了各派音系理论的内容、特点及其历史地位。这是一本不可多得的音系学史专著,全书共有373页,其中包括一个序言、十三个章节的正文、参考文献及索引。在序言中,作者主要交待了为什么要写这本书及为什么要把范围限定在二十世纪音系学之内的原因。他认为,结构主义的兴起首先是从对音系描写的成功开始的,追溯二十世纪音系 Stephen R. Anderson’s Phonology in the Twentieth Century was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1985. This book provides a comprehensive review of the history of phonology theory development from 1880 to 1979, and describes in more detail the content, characteristics and historical status of phonological theory of each school. This is a rare monograph on phonology, which contains a total of 373 pages, including a preface, the text of the thirteen chapters, references and indexes. In the preface, the author mainly accounts for the reason why the book should be written and why it should be limited to phonology in the twentieth century. In his opinion, the rise of structuralism starts with the success of phonetic delineation, tracing the twentieth century phonology