Phonetics category: 210 books

The function of language is to transmit information from speakers to listeners. This book investigates an aspect of linguistic sound patterning that has traditionally been assumed to interfere with this function – neutralization, a conditioned limitation on the distribution of a language's contrastive...

This book offers contemporary perspectives on English pronunciation teaching and research in the context of increasing multilingualism and English as an international language. It reviews current theory and practice in pronunciation pedagogy, language learning, language assessment, and technological...

Bei diesem Lehrbuch handelt es sich um ein Lesebuch speziell für medizinische Fachangestellte, und dementsprechend behandeln die Lektionstexte und Vokabeln auch Themen wie Patientengespräche, Diagnostik, die Beschreibung von Symptomen und vieles mehr, was man im Kontakt mit Ärzten und Patienten...

This book is open access under a CC BY licence. It spans the areas of assessment, second language acquisition (SLA) and pronunciation and examines topical issues and challenges that relate to formal and informal assessments of second language (L2) speech in classroom, research and real-world contexts....

The Letter Itself Becomes the Tutor To firmly establish the sound of the letters of the alphabet in the mind of your child, we created and instituted a completely new and unusual approach. In the A Different Approach to Phonics the letter itself becomes the tutor and the tool for learning the sound...

This book is the first major sociophonetic work on the urban accent of Aberdeen in North-East Scotland. The study shows how the accent has changed following the large-scale immigration from other parts of Scotland and the UK since the 1970s. It is rooted in a dialect contact framework and based on...

This book addresses the question whether Educated Indian English is more syllable-timed than British English from two standpoints: production and perception. Many post-colonial varieties of English, which are mostly spoken as a second language in countries such as India, Nigeria and the Philippines,...

This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources. The introduction explains fully the transcription conventions, the structure of the corpus and its relationship to other computer corpora, and provides examples of different versions of texts.

Use strategies developed by Dr. Timothy Rasinski to help students improve their phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, and vocabulary skills.

Co-authored by fluency expert, Timothy Rasinski, this resource aids in teaching literacy skills through poetry with word study activities based on poems that develop phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and spelling skills.

Use strategies developed by Dr. Timothy Rasinski to help students improve their phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, and vocabulary skills.

Homophones: Sonic Wonders presents 197 sets of words which are pronounced the same but have very different meanings. (I say, sets, because some sounds have 3 or even 4 different meanings, though most are pairs of words.) This is most definitely not an exhaustive list. I wrote Homophones: Sonic Wonders because the idea was good and like nothing else I had seen in the library.

The essays in this volume address a core question regarding the structure of linguistic systems: how much access do the grammatical components - syntax, morphology and phonology - have to each other? The book's fifteen essays make a powerful argument in favor of a particular view of the interaction...

Within the past forty years, the field of phonology—a branch of linguistics that explores both the sound structures of spoken language and the analogous phonemes of sign language, as well as how these features of language are used to convey meaning—has undergone several important shifts in theory...