Phonetics category: 210 books
A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Finnish and Japanese Prosody
Perception, Production and Child Acquisition of Consonantal Quantity Distinctions
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Study Abroad and Second Language Use
Constructing the Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
Language plays an essential role in how we portray our personalities. Through social interaction, others develop a picture of us based on our linguistic cues. However, when we interact in a foreign language and in a new country, limitations in linguistic and cultural knowledge can make self-presentation...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Assessment in Second Language Pronunciation highlights the importance of pronunciation in the assessment of second language speaking proficiency. Leading researchers from around the world cover practical issues as well as theoretical principles, enabling the understanding and application of the theory...
A Critical Introduction to Phonology
Functional and Usage-Based Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
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 sound systems can only be understood in the context...
by M. Frascarelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This work discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail. It treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/ Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish and shows that the application of Optimality Theory allows for innovative and improved...
English Coordinate Constructions
A Processing Perspective on Constituent Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Drawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature and behavior of coordinate constructions in three case studies, covering order in copulative compounds, binomials (bare phrases), and more complex phrases. Historically, research on order in coordination has concentrated on...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates which...
Routledge Revivals: An Outline of Anglo-Saxon Grammar (1936)
Published as an Appendix to "An Anglo-Saxon Reader"
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
First published in 1936, this book is intended to provide an outline of Anglo-Saxon grammar for beginners, focusing on well-selected, succinctly stated rules rather than giving a detailed survey. It focuses on the West-Saxon dialect as this is best suited to beginners due to its uniformity in phonology...
Frontiers of Phonology
Atoms, Structures and Derivations
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Frontiers of Phonology is a collection of essays that present a selective overview of trends in the linguistic analysis of sound structure. The essays are written by specialists from Europe, Canada and the USA and discuss issues from three broad areas of phonology: the nature and representation of...
Principes de phonologie de Nikolaï Troubetzkoy
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Parus en allemand en 1939, les Principes de phonologie constituent le huitième volume des Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague, fondé en 1928 par Nikolaï Sergueïevitch Troubetzkoy (1890-1938) et Roman Jakobson, et décidé...
Phonological Awareness in Reading
The Evolution of Current Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this volumume prominent scholars from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds are brought together to review the empirical studies on the ability to reflect upon and manipulate the phonemic segments of speech, and to present their insights on the relationship of phonological aware- ness to the reading process.
Handbook of the International Phonetic Association
A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1999
This book is a comprehensive guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet, whose aim is to provide a universally agreed system of notation for the sounds of languages, and which has been widely used for over a century. The Handbook presents the basics of phonetic analysis so that the principles underlying...
Foundations of Voice Studies
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Voice Production and Perception
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
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 facets of voice perception, illustrating why listeners hear what they do and how they reach...