Reading list

Here’s a list of books I highly recommend—some of which I use in my classes. Some are specific to linguistics (mostly to phonology and phonetics), and some are more general. The “data analysis” category lists all the books I have used and would recommend when it comes to statistics and/or R.

Linguistics

Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (William O’Grady et al)
The Sounds of Language (Elizabeth Zsiga)
Sounds Of The Worlds Languages (Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson)
A Course in Phonetics (Peter Ladefoged)
Introductory Phonology (Bruce Hayes)
Metrical Stress Theory (Bruce Hayes)
Word Stress (Harry van der Hulst)
Prosodic Weight Categories And Continua (Kevin Ryan)
Phonology in Generative Grammar (Michael Kenstowicz)
Doing Optimality Theory (John McCarthy)
Phonetically Based Phonology (Bruce Hayes et al)
Introductory Phonology (Bruce Hayes)
Phonological Typology (Matthew Gordon)
The Handbook of Phonological Theory (John Goldsmith)
Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Andrew Carnie)
Language Acquisition: The Growth of Grammar (Maria T. Guasti)
Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar (Lydia White)
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Ronald Wardhaugh and Janet M. Fuller)
The Price of Linguistic Productivity (Charles Yang)
The Origins of Grammar (James Hurford)
The Essential Chomsky (Noam Chomsky)

Data analysis

Data visualization and analysis in second language research (Guilherme D. Garcia)
Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R (Bodo Winter)
R for Data Science (Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund)
Statistical Rethinking (Richard McElreath)
Data Analysis Using Regression (Andrew Gelman and Jennifer Hill)
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis (John Kruschke)
Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach (Julia Silge and David Robinson)
Bayesian Data Analysis (Andrew Gelman et al)