Phonetics & Phonology

This is the first full-scale discussion of English phonology since Chomsky and Halle's seminal The Sound Pattern of English (SPE). The book enphasizes the analysis using ordered rules and builds on SPE by incorporating lexical and metrical and prosodic...

The overall aim of the book is to provide an integrated view of the separate stages of the speech chain, covering the production process, speech data analysis and speech perception. Analysis of information bearing elements of the speech signal have found...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434401489Author William Homer AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789990802436Author Songiso MvaloFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Mzuni PressPublisher Mzuni PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789027925060Author Adelyn DoughertyFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 419g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112327357Author M. MoortgatFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De Gruyter

Reading is considered as one of the most challenging and difficult abilities in learning a foreign language which also serves as a basis for developing other competences. The monograph presents and discusses in detail a novel multi-stage research study...

Stress and accent are central, organizing features of grammar, but their precise nature continues to be a source of mystery and wonder. These issues come to the forefront in acquisition, where the tension between the abstract mental representations and...

This book contains some of the material which originally appeared in my Ph. D. thesis Lexical Phonology, submitted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but it can hardly be called a revised version of the thesis. The theory that I propose here...

This work is based on my 1983 doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University, although it represents an extensive revision and reorganization of that work. Large amounts of material that were not contained in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112419977Author Harry van der HulstFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter

This is the first comprehensive account of Hungarian stress and intonation to appear in English. The emphasis is on description, but a large number of theoretical issues are also dealt with in an original way. Hungarian is a Uralic or Finno-Ugric...

According to well-established views, language has several subsystems where each subsystem (e.g. syntax, morphology, phonology) operates on the basis of hierarchically organised units. When it comes to the graphematic structure of words, however, the...

Originally published in 1913, this book contains a proposed universal alphabet for all forms of speech. Johnston includes sample sentences from a variety of languages spelled out in his phonetic alphabet at the conclusion of the text. This book will be...

If Phonetics is a comparatively recent subject for European students of foreign languages and is eyed by them with some sus picion as an invention that is meant to make their studies difficult, it is even more so with English Phonetics for African...

How well have classic ideas on whole-word phonology stood the test of time? Waterson claimed that each child has a system of their own; Ferguson and Farwell emphasized the relative accuracy of first words; Menn noted the occurrence of regression and the...

This book presents a morphosyntactic account of vowel length in contemporary Czech. The present approach is strictly decompositional on both the phonological and the morphosyntactic side. It assumes prosodic affixes in contemporary Czech. The focus is on...

This book conducts a thorough investigation of the variation in tone sandhi patterns of Shanghai and Wuxi Wu using quantitative rating experiments. Although Shanghai Wu has been well documented, to date there has never been any quantitative study that...

Children often mispronounce words when learning their first language. Is it because they cannot perceive the differences that adults make or is it because they can't produce the sounds involved? Neither hypothesis is sufficient on its own to explain the...

This study is an investigation into the comparative phonology and lexicon of six barely-known Bantu varieties spoken in Kenya. These varieties (Imenti, Igoji, Tharaka, Mwimbi, Muthambi and Chuka) belong to the so-called Meru group. The study develops a...

This volume was inspired by the 9th edition of the Phonetik & Phonologie conference, held in Zurich in October 2013. It includes state of the art research on phonetics and phonology in various languages and from interdisciplinary contributors. The...

This volume is a novel approach to the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. Based on qualitative data as well as on linguistic features extracted from the Corpus of Galway City Spoken English, this...

From an integrative perspective this study analyses the evolution of ethnolinguistic variability in Cameroon English (CamE) pronunciation along the educational echelon. Focus is on the phonetic/phonological variables of ethnolects distinctive from...

How do you pronounce omega, tortoise and sloth, and why? Do charted and chartered sound the same? How do people pronounce the names Charon, Punjab and Sexwale? In this engaging book, John Wells, a world-renowned phonetician and phonologist, explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112327234Author Teun HoekstraFormat HardbackPage Count 323Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 733g

This book investigates inconsistencies in the accent adopted by advanced German learners of English with respect to differences between standard American and British English (rhoticity, t-voicing, the vowels in the lexical sets "bath",...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906770987Author Cornelia TschicholdFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 580g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466985568Author Douglas T RomanFormat PaperbackImprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 386g

The10th Public Relations World Congress "Between People andPower" washeldin Amsterdam, theNetherlands, from 3-7 June1985. Thecongress wassponsored by IPRA (International Public Relations Association), in conjunction with NGPR (Netherlands...

The concept of the 'onset', i.e. the consonant(s) before the vowel of a syllable, is critical within phonology. While phonologists have examined the segmental behaviour of onsets, their prosodic status has instead been largely overlooked. In fact, most...

Learning and memory processes are basic features of human existence. They allow us to (un)consciously adapt to changes in our social and physical environment in a variety of ways and may have been a precursor for survival in human evolution. Through...

The papers collected in this volume explore the major mechanisms, that is derivations and constraints, claimed to be responsible for various aspects of the linguistic systems, their syntax, phonology and morphology. The contributors approach these issues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604500356Author Joseph DevlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint ARC ManorPublisher ARC ManorWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

It seems as if the fundamentals of how we produce vowels and how they are acoustically represented have been clarified: we phonate and articulate. Using our vocal chords, we produce a vocal sound or noise which is then shaped into a specific vowel sound...

This book offers a concise introduction to synchronic English linguistics. Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, it provides detailed descriptions of the different language levels: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and...

This study investigates the oral and written story productions of 56 10-12-year-old Greek-German and Greek-English bilingual children in order find out to which extent their narrative abilities develop conjointly across their two languages and which...

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This volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 percent of the world's languages, only few have been explored for intonation. And even though one third of the world's languages are...

This work is based on my 1983 doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University, although it represents an extensive revision and reorganization of that work. Large amounts of material that were not contained in the...