Phonetics, phonology

This book investigates syllable structure and phonotactic restructuring in six Caribbean creoles with Dutch, English and French as main lexifier languages.

This book presents a collection of papers from the Spring 1995 Work- shop on Computational Approaches to Processing the Prosody of Spon- taneous Speech, hosted by the ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Re- search Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan.

This volume presents novel analyses of morphosyntax and phonology by well-known scholars in their respective fields.

Much of the work currently conducted within the framework of Universal Grammar and language learnability focuses on the acquisition of syntax.

This textbook focuses on second language speech - how individuals perceive and produce the sounds of their second language.

This Element connects phonetics knowledge and language teaching practice, informing effective teaching techniques and strategies.

Die Arbeit zur regionalen Variation der Intonation bietet einen Forschungsüberblick über existierende Studien zum Thema und widmet sich dann der Analyse der Intonation der kölnischen Regionalvarietät auf der Basis von spontansprachlichen Daten.

Reinvestigates how a speaker/hearer''s experience with language affects the representation of phonology.

The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction.

First published in 1952.

This is the first book devoted to the effects of orthographic forms (spellings) on second language phonology.

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

Anybody who reads or writes Chinese characters knows that they obey a grammar of sorts: though numerous, they are built out of a much smaller set of constituents, often interpretable in meaning or pronunciation, that are themselves built out of an even smaller set of strokes.

First published in 1990.

Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has lagged behind that of monolinguals.

The book is concerned with the acquisition of English phonology, both segmental and suprasegmental, by learners of English as a second language, as a third language and by speakers of a postcolonial ("e;new"e;) variety of English.

This book was first published in 1947, Mankind, Nation and Individual is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

Offers a new model of vocal tract articulation that explains laryngeal and oral voice quality, both auditorily and visually, through language examples and familiar voices.

This book is a compilation of manuscripts and publications from 2001-2010 by Jean-Roger Vergnaud, in collaboration with colleagues and students.

This book presents a detailed sociolinguistic study of the traditionally Catalan-speaking areas of Southern France, and sheds new light on language attitudes, phonetic variation, language ideologies and minority language rights.

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

The universalist view that acquisition of phonology is guided by universal principles has been the dominant position for decades.

Poets, academics, and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech.

The first typological study of Afroasiatic languages.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

First published in 1991.

A study of how humans weave the sound-patterns of language, informed by insights from linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience and genetics.

A loanword, or wailaici, is a word with similar meaning and phonetic form to a word from a foreign language that has been naturalized in the recipient language.

This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, and expanded coverage of topics such as speech technology.

First published in 1989.

This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description, study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish.