Phonetics, phonology

No book has ever been published on tonal change and neutralization, two closely related topics in tonal phonology.

A landmark survey of Turkic by a leading expert, covering structural, functional, historical, sociolinguistic, and literary aspects.

The traditional dialect spoken in the Shetland Isles, the northernmost part of Scotland and Britain, is highly distinct.

Initially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer.

What is known about the speech we use every day?

Sonority has a long and contentious history.

Routledge Revivals presents a reissue of Noam Chomksy's MA thesis, written in 1951, and first published in 1979.

This thorough analysis of documented Middle English spelling establishes when and where long-vowel change took place.

Constraint-based frameworks such as Optimality Theory (OT) have significantly altered phonologists' views on the nature of derivations and their role in linguistic theory.

This book was first published in 1904, How to Teach a Foreign Language is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

Speech Sounds:* helps develop the fundamental skills of the phonetician* investigates the various aspects involved in the production of speech sounds* uses data-based material to reinforce each new concept* includes examples from a wide range of languages* provides dozens of exercises with solutions and cross-references* can complement existing course or textbook material.

In this volumume prominent scholars from different culturaland linguistic backgrounds are brought together to reviewthe empirical studies on the ability to reflect upon andmanipulate the phonemic segments of speech, and to presenttheir insights on the relationship of phonological aware-ness to the reading process.

This volume presents current research in the formal treatment of linguistic phenomena in the Romance languages.

This book explores theoretical issues of the syntax-phonology interface within the Minimalist Program of linguistic theory and proposes an entirely new approach to prosodic categories.

Sociophonetics - the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics - is a field that has expanded rapidly in recent years.

First published in 1990.

This book presents the theory of output-driven maps and provides fresh perspectives in an accessible way for students and researchers.

Students of linguistics and English language with no previous knowledge of word-formation or of morphology at all will find English Word-Formation an accessible and stimulating textbook.

A state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, presenting revision of an influential model alongside new empirical studies.

An essential, comprehensive guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet, for phoneticians and others concerned with speech.

This volume presents the first full-scale biography of Daniel Jones, a preeminent scholar and leading British phonetician of the early twentieth century, and the first linguist to hold a chair at a British university.

This book presents a number of studies which focus on the [voice] grammar of Japanese, paying particular attention to historical background, dialectal diversity, phonetic experiment, and phonological analysis.

In keeping with the authors' belief that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to teachers and students alike, this volume presents a complete curriculum of word study for students who are in the syllables and affixes stage of spelling development.

The Sinitic Languages is the quintessence of Mieczyslaw Jerzy Kunstler's thirty years of research into the Chinese languages.

This book provides thorough descriptive and theory-neutral coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language.

This book presents a comprehensive and critical overview of historical phonology as it stands today.

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period.

This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic.

Turkisms in South Slavonic Literature is a comparative analysis of Turkish loanwords in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Bosnian and Bulgarian Franciscan sources.