Phonetics, phonology

Pronunciation plays a crucial role in learning English as an international language, yet often remains marginalised by educators due to a lack of required phonetic and phonological knowledge.

This volume advances our understanding of how word structure in terms of affix ordering is organized in the languages of the world.

The papers in this tightly focused collection all report recent research on aspects of rendaku ('sequential voicing'), the well-known morphophonemic phenomenon in Japanese that affects initial consonants of non-initial elements in complex words (mostly compounds).

Top researchers explore the nature of stress and accent patterns in languages, especially the nature of their representations and how people learn them.

This text uses machine data of poetry readings to discover features of rhythm and intonation and to clear away methodological problems that hamper the teaching of poetic melody.

First published in 1986.

First published in 1985.

This monograph proposes a new interpretation of the intrasegmental structure of consonants and provides the first systematic intra- and cross-linguistic study of consonant prevocalization.

This volume is comprehensively designed to help prospective teachers of English Language (EL), and teachers specializing in English as a foreign language (EFL), mainly in South Asian countries.

This collection of papers from Eighth Conference on Laboratory Phonology (held in New Haven, CT) explores what laboratory data that can tell us about the nature of speakers' phonological competence and how they acquire it, and outlines models of the human phonological capacity that can meet the challenge of formalizing that competence.

A comprehensive overview of how we use prosody to do things in conversation, such as persuade, suggest, flatter, take turns and reach agreement.

This book was first published in 1929, International Language is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family.

The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English is the most up-to-date record of the pronunciation of British and American English.

This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect: Domains and Rule Application is the first attempt to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the Fuzhou phonological system from the perspective of prosodic phonology.

Enjoy developing skills in phonetics with easy explanations, ''can''t-go-wrong'' exercises, audio back-up, real life talk and words to intonation.

This book provides an overview of current issues in variation and gradience in phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics.

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly known as Old or Medieval Spanish, as preserved in texts from Spain from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries.

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

The present collection of articles grew out of a workshop on Vietnamese linguistics in 2009 at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

The phenomena discussed by the authors range from synthetic compounding in English to agreement alternations in Arabic and complementizer agreement in dialects of Dutch.

This accessible textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonetics, the study of speech.

This book provides a detailed, informative description of fluent aphasia, a disorder that severely impairs language.

The ideal stage-specific companion to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction 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 prepared sorts and activities covering the full curriculum of word study for students who are in the emergent stage of spelling development.

First published in 1986.

Phonetically reduced forms are plentiful, theoretically interesting, and a key challenge for automatic speech recognition systems.

This volume presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages.

A work to introduce linguists to dynamic systems focusing on serial order, speech perception, speech production, and phonological theory.

First published in 1989.

This is the first comprehensive work on word and sentence prosody in Koshikijima Japanese, a dialect of Japanese not fully documented in the literature.

A phonetic analysis of accents in North American film and television: how they vary and how they have changed.

This book presents a theory of ''markedness'', the way in which languages demonstrate bias towards particular sounds.

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 that are now part of standard practice.

This book aims to provide an account of both what and how onomatopoeia communicate by applying ideas from the relevance theoretic framework of utterance interpretation.

First published in 1980.