Author: Smith, Neil Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 canít produce the sounds involved? Neit...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The variation that a speech sound undergoes under the influence of neighbouring sounds has acquired the well-established label coarticulation. The phenomenon of coarticulation has become a central pro...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This outstanding volume presents a state-of-the-art overview of linguistic research into the acquisition of phonology. Bringing together well-known researchers in the field, it focuses on constraints ...
Author: Beck, William J. Publisher: Psychology Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Throughout the world, there are phoneticians who have been influenced by the teaching, research, and writings of John Laver. Many have worked with him personally, and most of the contributors to this ...
Author: Kreidler, Charles W. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Providing a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English, Describing Spoken English assumes no prior knowledge of phonetics and phonology.
Author: Crystal, David Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: David Crystal's A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field. Now available in its sixth edition, it has been revised and updated to refle...
Author: McCarthy, John J. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Doing Optimality Theory brings together examples and practical, detailed advice for undergraduates and graduate students working in linguistics. Given that the basic premises of Optimality Theory are ...
Author: Blevins, Juliette Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Evolutionary Phonology is a new theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical linguistics, phonetics, and phonological theory. In this groundbreaking book, Juliette Blevins explores...
Description: Foundations of Voice Studies provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the multifaceted role that voice quality plays in human existence.Offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on all...
Author: Ladd,D. Robert Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid 1990s. It contains a new...
Author: Odden, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This accessible textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonology, the study of sound patterns in language. Designed for students with only a basic knowledge of linguistics, it teaches...
Author: Fabb, Nigel Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How does a literary text get to have literary form, and what is the relation between literary form and linguistic form? This theoretical study of linguistic structure in literature focuses on verse an...
Author: McMahon, April Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book has two main goals: the re-establishment of a rule-based phonology as a viable alternative to current non-derivational models, and the rehabilitation of historical evidence as a focus of pho...
Author: de Lacy, Paul Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'Markedness' refers to the tendency of languages to show a preference for particular structures or sounds. This bias towards 'marked' elements is consistent within and across languages, and tells us ...
Author: Fabb,Nigel / Halle,Morris Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 simp...
Description: This book presents a new, universal script, denoted NAVLIPI, capable of expressing all the world's languages, from English and Arabic, to tonal languages such as Mandarin, to click languages such ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Parlor Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When modern discussions of technology arise in rhetoric and composition studies, the topic is almost always related to computers-despite their comparatively recent development and deployment in this m...
Author: Topintzi, Nina Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The concept of the ëonsetí, 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 sta...
Author: McCarthy, John J. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader is a collection of readings on this important new theory by leading figures in the field, including a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s never-b...
Author: Prince, Alan / Smolensky, Paul Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Phonetic Interpretation presents innovative work from four core areas: phonological representations and the lexicon, phonetic interpretation and phrasal structure, phonetic interpretation and syllable...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Phonetically based phonology is centered around the hypothesis that phonologies of languages are determined by phonetic principles; that is, phonetic patterns involving ease of articulation and percep...
Description: Companion website, featuring additional resources such as sound files, can be found here: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/phonetics/Providing a comprehensive overview of the four primary areas of p...
Author: Knight, Rachael-Anne Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A problem-based introduction to phonetics, with 300+ exercises integrated into the text to help the student discover and practice the subject interactively. It assumes no previous knowledge of the sub...
Author: Gussmann, Edmund Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Clear and concise, this textbook is an introduction to phonology for students which assumes no prior knowledge of this area of linguistics and provides an overall view of the field which can be covere...
Author: Gussenhoven, Carlos Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used by speakers of all languages in order to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes segments and morphemes, and into...
Author: Ofori, Everett Publisher: CCB Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Read Assure takes advantage of the best asset all children have in abundance: tremendous brain power hungry for challenges. Children as young as four have successfully mastered reading English through...
Author: Ritt, Nikolaus Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book takes an exciting perspective on language change, by explaining it in terms of Darwin's evolutionary theory. Looking at a number of developments in the history of sounds and words, Nikolaus ...
Author: Shockey, Linda Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sound Patterns of Spoken English is a concise, to-the-point compendium of information about the casual pronunciation of everyday English as compared to formal citation forms.Concise, to-the-point comp...
Author: Dresher, B. Elan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'Contrast' - the opposition between distinctive sounds in a language - is one of the most central concepts in linguistics. This book presents an original account of the logic and history of contrast i...
Description: The Handbook of Phonological Theory, Second Edition, is an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology. Revised from the ground up, the book is comprised almost entirely of...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Handbook of Phonological Theory, Second Edition, is an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology. Revised from the ground up, the book is comprised almost entirely of...
Author: Lawry, Matthew Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is about learning the phrases and sentences and getting to grips with saying the language, without going into the grammar first. In that way you can have fun in learning how to say certain t...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The syllable has always been a key concept in generative linguistics: the rules, representations, parameters, or constraints posited in diverse frameworks of theoretical phonology and morphology all m...
Author: Tench, Paul Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Do you have a fear of transcription? Are you daunted by the prospect of learning and handling unfamiliar symbols? This workbook is for students who are new to linguistics and phonetics, and offers a d...
Author: Walker, Rachel Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Linguists researching the sounds of languages do not just study lists of sounds but seek to discover generalizations about sound patterns by grouping them into categories. They study the common proper...
Author: Ladefoged, Peter / Ferrari Disner, Sandra Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, and expanded coverage of topics such as s...
Author: Kreiman, Jody / Van Lancker Sidtis, Diana Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Foundations of Voice Studies provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the multifaceted role that voice quality plays in human existence.Offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on all...
Author: N/A Publisher: Psychology Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Provides a comprehensive overview of the critical theoretical and empirical controversies in current research on the cognitive science of lexical processing and reading.
Author: Ashby, Patricia Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Routledge Language Workbooks "provide absolute beginners with practical introductions to core areas of language study. Books in the series provide comprehensive coverage of the area as well as a basi...
Author: Ladefoged, Peter / Ferrari Disner, Sandra Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, and expanded coverage of topics such as s...
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