Phonetics & Phonology

Prosody is generally studied at a separate linguistic level from syntax and semantics. It analyses phonetic properties of utterances such as pitch and prominence, and orders them into phonological categories such as pitch accent, boundary tone, and...

Many of the great works of world literature are composed in metrical verse, that is, in lines which are measured and patterned. Meter in Poetry: A New Theory is the first book to present a single simple account of all known types of metrical verse, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAditi Lahiri, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Book InformationISBN 9783110634921Author Aditi LahiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint De Gruyter...

This book explores questions about the nature of an interlanguage grammar, i.e. the grammar of a bilingual. John Archibald approaches these questions within a cognitive science perspective that draws upon abstract representational structures in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068314137Author T. AkamatsuFormat PaperbackPage Count 193Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters Publishers

This Element addresses the challenges and opportunities that arise in the study of sound systems of understudied languages within the context of language documentation, an expanding field that seeks to develop records of the world's languages and their...

This Element addresses the challenges and opportunities that arise in the study of sound systems of understudied languages within the context of language documentation, an expanding field that seeks to develop records of the world's languages and their...

How do languages capture and represent the sounds of the world? Is this a universal phenomenon? Drawing from data taken from 124 different languages, this innovative book offers a detailed exploration of onomatopoeia, that are imagic icons of sound...

By studying the emergence, development, structure, and pattern, the two-volume set seeks to reconstruct the ancient rhyme Chinese tables based on extant materials and findings.A rhyme table is a tabulated tool constituted by phonological properties,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783346091130Author Isabel RichterFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 36g

The articles in this volume contribute to the joint enterprise between theoretical linguistics and research in the development of phonology and morphology. When it comes to the acquisition of phonology, Hebrew is a new member in the limited pool of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845532215Author Steve ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1g

The new, third, edition of this indispensable guide for speech pathology and therapy students is completely updated, applying the results of the most recent research into speech disorders. Phonetics for Speech Pathology introduces normative aspects of...

Spellbound considers the history of English spelling and provides suggestions for modern day reform of its irregularities.The first half of the book reviews the history of English spelling and the reasons for the many irregularities of our modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845530518Author John J. McCarthyFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Harmonic Grammar and Harmonic Serialism introduces readers to current research in Optimality Theory that involves a reconsideration of two of Prince and Smolensky's (1993/2004) basic architectural decisions. One is the choice of constraint ranking over...

Haitian Creole is the creole language with the largest number of speakers: about ten million in Haiti and two million in diaspora communities in North American, France, and the Caribbean, including the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the French overseas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845539061Author Ikuko Patricia YuasaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1g

Spoken interaction is impossible without prosody. Intonation, pitch register, tempo, rhythm, pausing, loudness and voice quality all contribute to the spontaneous negotiation process that is everyday talk. This highly accessible introduction to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788185163512Author R. N. SrivastavaFormat HardbackPage Count 195Imprint Kalinga PublicationsPublisher Kalinga Publications

First published in 1988, Language, Speech and Mind consists of 18 specially invited contributions to mark Professor Fromkin’s 65th birthday in 1988. It reflects her very special interdisciplinary interests and flair, thereby celebrating her own important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447122054Author Ilknur Civan BicerFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 667g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910886182Author Fakhraddin VeysalliFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Hertfordshire PressPublisher Silk Road MediaWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854650061Author Hubert DevonishFormat PaperbackImprint Karia PressPublisher Karia Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798201093846Author Dominic SaboridoFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Writers Sidekick PublishingPublisher Writers Sidekick PublishingWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800502758Author Jennifer BellikFormat HardbackPage Count 558Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 3116g

The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of research, history and techniques in phonetics. With contributions from 41 prominent authors from North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, and including over 130...

The book offers a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the ongoing vigorous debate on loanword phonology, its major mechanisms and various interpretations. It provides an in-depth analysis of a rich body of novel experimental data on...

Tocharian and Indo-Eu-ropean Studies is the central publication for the study of two closely related languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Found in many Buddhist manuscripts from central Asia, Tocharian dates back to the second half of the first...

This volume contains articles based on the presentations given at the Nordic Prosody XII conference, which was held at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway) in August 2016. The contributors investigate various prosodic...

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to phonological theory and analysis, A Critical Introduction to Phonology introduces the key aspects of the discipline. Departing from the mainstream tradition, Daniel Silverman argues that the nature of linguistic...

The present volume is a collection of 14 papers written by several international scholars who examine a variety of descriptive and theoretical issues topical in current phonetic and phonological research. This is done through a meticulous analysis of a...

This book aims to expose a panchronic outlook on motivation behind the word within the paradigm of cognitive linguistics. On the example of girl and woman used in "Dubliners", the author emphasises the impact of culture on human conceptualisation which,...

The topic of the book is the relationship between mind and language on all levels of linguistic research. Over the past decade, the cognitive approach to language and its methodology have started to permeate other areas of linguistic study, which, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112420034Author Lou BovesFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 523g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926906065Author Nathan Oyori OgechiFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Nsemia Inc.Publisher Nsemia Inc.Weight(grams) 152g

In this book, some of today's leading neurolinguists and psycholinguists provide insight into the nature of phonological processing using behavioural measures, computational modeling, EEG and fMRI. The essays cover a range of topics including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781792827Author Mehmet Yava?Format HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm)...