Phonetics & Phonology

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

Phonetics, Phonology, and Cognition explores the cognitive and biological systems involved in speech. It offers challenging findings on the cognitive status of phonological representations and their relationship with phonetic implementations. The...

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...

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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...

This volume contains detailed surveys of the intonational phonology of fourteen typologically diverse languages, described in the Autosegmental-Metrical framework. Unlike the first volume, half of the languages, which vary in their word prosody as well...

This book illustrates an approach to prosodic typology through descriptions of the intonation and the prosodic structure of thirteen typologically different languages based on the same theoretical framework, the 'autosegmental-metrical' model of...

This book provides (a) the first comprehensive description of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian, known as the Halh (Khalkha) dialect and spoken in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Republic of Mongolia; and (b) the first account in any...

This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one meaningful sound from another. Since the mid-twentieth century they have been...

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...

For the first time in over thirty years a revolution is happening in phonology, with the advent of constraint-based approaches which directly oppose the rule-and-derivation tradition of mainstream Generative Phonology. The success of Optimality Theory...

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...

This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one meaningful sound from another. Since the mid-twentieth century they have been...

This book looks at the range of possible syllables in human languages. The syllable is a central notion in phonology, yet basic questions about it remain poorly understood and phonologists are divided on even the most elementary issues. For example, the...

This book presents Jorgen Rischel's most important work on language and sound structure. It includes some of the most original and groundbreaking research of four decades. The chapters focus on stress, syllabification, accent, and vowel harmony, and...

This book scrutinizes recent work in phonological theory from the perspective of Chomskyan generative linguistics and argues that progress in the field depends on taking seriously the idea that phonology is best studied as a mental computational system...

This book scrutinizes recent work in phonological theory from the perspective of Chomskyan generative linguistics and argues that progress in the field depends on taking seriously the idea that phonology is best studied as a mental computational system...

This book explores the role of phonological templates in early language use from the perspective of usage-based phonology and exemplar models and within the larger developmental framework of Dynamic Systems Theory. After analysing children's first words...

This volume contains detailed surveys of the intonational phonology of fourteen typologically diverse languages, described in the Autosegmental-Metrical framework. Unlike the first volume, half of the languages are understudied languages and/or...

This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of phonological weight to date, bringing together traditional notions of categorical, rime-based weight and new developments in statistical prosodic phonology. The book demonstrates that while some...

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 204Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter

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)...

This volume contains the revised texts of papers given at the Nordic Prosody XI conference that was held at the University of Tartu, Estonia, in August 2012. The 42 contributions deal mainly with the prosody of Scandinavian and Finno-Ugric languages, but...

De fonologie beschouwt het als haar taak, de klanksystemen der verschillende talen alsmede de functies van elk hunner elementen te bestuderen. En die taak vloeit voort uit het inzicht, dat de klanken ener taal een geordend systeem vormen, waarin elk...

This book is a comprehensive study on the phonetic characteristics of citation tones in Chaoshan Chinese. It presents the tonal patterns of 65 localities in the Chaoshan area under the "multiple-register and four-level" tonal model. Three case...