Phonetics Phonics category: 210 books
Rules and Exceptions
Using Exceptions for Empirical Research in Theoretical Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book assembles a collection of papers first presented at the Summer School and Conference on the Method of Lexical Exceptions held at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, 2-8 September 2007, which explored an area of linguistics now referred to as ‘the method of exceptions and their correlations’.
Recognition...
You Say Potato
A Book About Accents
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Some people say scohn, while others say schown.
He says bath, while she says bahth.
You say potayto. I say potahto
And-
-wait a second, no one says potahto. No one's ever said potahto.
Have they?
From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall...
300+ BASIC SIGHT WORDS
A Vocabulary List Every School Aged Child Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
These sight word flash cards include OVER 300 sight words that all school aged children should know!
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 make it fun and easy to practice...
Encoding and Decoding of Emotional Speech
A Cross-Cultural and Multimodal Study between Chinese and Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
This book addresses the subject of emotional speech, especially its encoding and decoding process during interactive communication, based on an improved version of Brunswik’s Lens Model. The process is shown to be influenced by the speaker’s and the listener’s linguistic and cultural backgrounds,...
Analyzing Sound Patterns
An Introduction to Phonology
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Analyzing Sound Patterns is a clear and concise introduction to phonological phenomena, covering a wide range of issues from segmental to suprasegmental problems and prosodic morphology. Assuming no prior knowledge of problem solving, this textbook shows students how to analyze phonological problems...
by Edith A. Moravcsik
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. This textbook provides an introduction to the subject which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics. It offers the broadest coverage of any introductory book, including sections on historical change, language...
by David Odden
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Designed for students with only a basic knowledge of linguistics, this leading textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonology, the study of sound patterns in language. It teaches in a step-by-step fashion the logical techniques of phonological analysis and the fundamental theories...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines.
Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the book is comprised almost...
Acquiring Phonology
A Cross-Generational Case-Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
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 can't produce the sounds involved? Neither hypothesis is sufficient on its own to explain the facts. On the basis of detailed analyses of...
by Martin Krämer
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
At the heart of generative phonology lies the assumption that the sounds of every language have abstract underlying representations, which undergo various changes in order to generate the 'surface' representations; that is, the sounds we actually pronounce. The existence, status and form of underlying...
Word Stress
Theoretical and Typological Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Word stress has long presented challenges to phonologists, as they have sought to uncover patterns in its distribution, and devise models to account for its behaviour and formal representation both within single languages and cross-linguistically. In this collection, a team of world-renowned researchers...
Reduplication
Doubling in Morphology
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2005
This groundbreaking new study takes a novel approach to reduplication, a phenomenon whereby languages use repetition to create new words. Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll argue that the driving force in reduplication is identity at the morphosyntactic, not the phonological level, and present a new model...
Linguistic Change in Galway City English
A Variationist Sociolinguistic Study of (th) and (dh) in Urban Western Irish English
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This volume is a novel approach to the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. Based on qualitative data as well as on linguistic features extracted from the Corpus of Galway City Spoken English, this study approaches the major sociolinguistic characteristics...
Ontology and Phenomenology of Speech
An Existential Theory of Speech
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again. Rapid development of linguistic science in the second half of the 20th century, and cognitive science in the beginning of the...