Sommerstein A.H. The Sound Pattern of Ancient Greek

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973. — 215 p.This book is about the phonology of Ancient Greek. It consists of an account of the most important rules (so far as they are known) governing the pronunciation of sentences in that language, and a consideration of some of the implications of evidence from Greek for general phonological theory. Interest will be concentrated primarily on the rules themselves rather than on the actual pronunciation; the reader seeking more detailed information about the latter is referred to Allen (1968), whose well documented and argued conclusions I have followed except where I indicate disagreement.