Phonetics category: 210 books

Transcription is the act of representing words with phonetic symbols. Transcription is the assigning of a particular phonetic symbol to a particular sound. Symbol represents sounds and spoken words are reduced to written forms in transcription. It is in this lucid manner that this book will...

Vowel is a sound produced without obstruction to the flow of air from the lungs. Vowels are twenty sounds represented by these phonetic symbols: /i/, /e/, /æ/, /ɒ/, /u/, /ʌ/, /ə/, /i:/, /a:/, /ɔ:/, /u:/, /3:/, /əi/, /ai/, /ɔi/, /əu/, /au/, /iə/, /eə/, and /uə/. It is in this lucid...

Rhyme is the quality shared by two or more words that end with the same sound. Rhyme is a repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in some poems and songs. It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you rhymes. It clearly explains the two major types...

These sight word flash cards include 61 First Grade sight words - 41 of the most common sight words - Plus 20 common sight nouns Sight words can be known by many names including high-frequency words, Dolch words, Fry words, instant words or even Star words. These flash cards have been designed...

This book aims to aid English teachers at the junior and senior secondary school levels in teaching pronunciation within a regular EFL syllabus. It presents such a way of incorporating the phonetic and lexical components so as to facilitate students’ acquisition of a standard phonetic system and...

This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives. Combining theoretical and psycholinguistic questions concerning the nature of alternative sets, it sheds new light on the theory of focus and the cognitive mechanisms underlying...

The New Way to Read Chinese ShaoLan Hsueh, a Taiwanese entrepreneur based in London, couldn’t find an effective way to teach her children Chinese, so she developed a groundbreaking visual method to make reading characters fun and easy. By learning the most commonly occurring characters—the...

Rhythms, conceptual metaphors, and political language convey meanings of which Chinese speakers themselves may not be aware. Link’s Anatomy of Chinese contributes to the debate over whether language shapes thought or vice versa, and its comparison of English with Chinese lends support to theories that locate the origins of language in the brain.

How well have classic ideas on whole-word phonology stood the test of time? Waterson claimed that each child has a system of their own; Ferguson and Farwell emphasised the relative accuracy of first words; Menn noted the occurrence of regression and the emergence of phonological systematicity. This...

Combining intellectual history with literary analysis, this study of Whitman's language experiment from 1855 to 1892 offers a refreshing new look at his theory of language especially the English language in America—as an expression of a "national spirit" and relates that theory to the...

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the various breathing techniques employed by singers and public speakers. Written in simple, clear language and full of useful information, this timeless handbook is highly recommended for modern readers with a practical interest in singing. Contents...

The processes of gemination, lenition, and vowel lengthening are central to the study of phonology, as they reveal much about the treatment of quantity in a given language. Using data from older language stages, modern dialects and standard languages, this study examines the interdependence of vowel...

This is an attempt to view historical phonological change as an ongoing, recurrent process. The author sees like events occurring at all periods, a phenomenon which he considers is disguised by too great a reliance upon certain characteristics of the scholarly tradition. Thus he argues that those...

The most comprehensive work on dissimilation (the avoidance or repair of combinations of similar sounds) to date, this book proposes a novel analysis that handles dissimilation as the avoidance of surface correspondence relationships. It draws on recent work in Agreement By Correspondence to show...