Phonetics & Phonology

This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to prosodic constituents according to well-formedness conditions. Using a...

Word stress has long presented challenges to phonologists, as they have sought to uncover patterns in its distribution, and devise models to account for its behaviour and formal representation both within single languages and cross-linguistically. In...

A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language acquisition and language creation. Working on sign languages not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556715228Author Donald A BurquestFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global...

Effects of morphological structure on phonetic detail present us with two challenges. The empirical challenge is that some predictors have produced inconsistent effects. The theoretical challenge is that it is unclear where morpho-phonetic effects...

Prosody as a system of suprasegmental linguistic information such as rhythm and intonation is a prime candidate for looking at the relation between language and music in a principled way. This claim is based on several aspects: First, prosody is...

This is the first comprehensive work on word and sentence prosody in Koshikijima Japanese, a dialect of Japanese not fully documented in the literature. It is an endangered dialect spoken by about 2,000 speakers on a small southern island in Japan...

No book has ever been published on tonal change and neutralization, two closely related topics in tonal phonology. This will be the first book to be devoted to both. The articles collected in this volume analyze a wide range of data concerning tonal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556715266Author Anita C BickfordFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725281066Author Franklin EdgertonFormat HardbackPage Count 34Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLarry M. Hyman, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Frans Plank, University of Konstanz, Germany. Book InformationISBN 9783110686371Author Larry M...

The book describes the sound system of Maaloula Aramaic, an under-researched and endangered Western Neo-Aramaic dialect. It provides solutions to previously unaddressed problems at the descriptive, methodological and theoretical levels. The analyzed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999550240Author Christopher WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bella FrostPublisher Bella FrostWeight(grams) 195g

This book intends to place Nick Clements' contribution to Feature Theory in a historical and contemporary context and to introduce some of his unpublished manuscripts as well as new work with colleagues collected in this book.About the AuthorAnnie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926585833Author Everett OforiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CCB PublishingPublisher CCB PublishingWeight(grams) 623g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556714146Author Keith L SniderFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498191586Author Henry SweetFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293962Author Susanne FuchsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692607640Author Andrew MiziniakFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Andrew MiziniakPublisher Andrew MiziniakWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...

Phonology as Human Behavior brings work in human cognition, behavior, and communication to bear on the study of phonology-the theory of sound systems in language. Yishai Tobin extends the ideas of William Diver-an influential linguist whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998085036Author Branton Burgess BairdFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Concrete - Abstract: Classroom Culture from BabbliPublisher Concrete -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987577351Author Rafael DomingosFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Hugoboo InkPublisher Hugoboo InkWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987398819Author Tristan DurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Tristan DuriePublisher Tristan DurieWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988978218Author Kerri Farrell FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Crack the SpinePublisher Crack the SpineWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988898608Author Ms Mary TiegreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Palisades LandingPublisher Palisades LandingWeight(grams) 367g

Do loanword adaptations apply on a phonological or a phonetic level? This study addresses this issue by investigating the adaptation of German and French loanwords and proper names with front rounded vowels into Japanese. The adaptation forms of front...

What is the role of prosody in the generation of sentence structure?A standard notion holds that prosody results from mapping a hierarchical syntactic structure onto a linear sequence of words. A radically different view conceives of certain...

This book offers new insights into the language gains of adult learners enrolled in an English-medium instruction (EMI) degree programme. It provides longitudinal empirical evidence of the phonological gains of the learners; discusses which individual...

This work, divided into two volumes, is the study of the history of words in the Austronesian (An) languages-their origin in Proto-Austronesian (PAn) or at later stages and how they developed into the forms that are attested in the current An languages...

Phonological Knowledge addresses central questions in the foundations of phonology and locates them within their larger linguistic and philosophical context. Phonology is a discipline grounded in observable facts, but like any discipline it rests on...

Unlike oral communication, reading is not an automatic or naturally acquired skill, and children do not learn to read in the same manner as they learn to speak. Reading requires that children be able to process letter sounds visually. There is a definite...

This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure. Its central thesis is that the position of sentential or nuclear stress, the element with the highest prominence in the sentence, is...

This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure. Its central thesis is that the position of sentential or nuclear stress, the element with the highest prominence in the sentence, is...

Nigerian English Phonology is a stimulating volume on the world concern for English as a global language. In addition to contributing to the sociolinguistics of New Englishes, it contributes to their pedagogy. It employs the theoretical model of...

Missouri lies at a regional crossroads where the Midwest meets the South and the West begins. The contemporary dialect picture of the state reflects this blend of influences. Depending on their backgrounds, Missourians may share speech features with...

'Book InformationISBN 9780226019161Author Stephen R. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 23mm * 15mm * 2mm

What is the relationship between phonetics and phonology? Are phonological features innate and universal, and do they have fixed phonetic correlates? These questions have recently received renewed prominence in theoretical debates, and this book explores...

Articulatory Phonetics presents a concise and non-technical introduction to the physiological processes involved in producing sounds in human speech. * Traces the path of the speech production system through to the point where simple vocal sounds are...

This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints. * Final version of the widely...

This revised second edition provides an introduction to the phonetics and phonology of English. It incorporates all central aspects of research in the phonology of English and involves the reader at every step, with over 80 exercises leading students to...