Phonetics, phonology

English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language.

The book contains a collection of papers dealing with the question of how rhythm shapes language.

Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest.

This is the first volume concerned with the phonological typology of syllable and word languages, based on the model of a complex, multi-layered and hierarchically structured phonological system.

The book contains a collection of papers dealing with the question of how rhythm shapes language.

This volume seeks to reevaluate the nature of tone-segment interactions in phonology.

Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest.

The Sound Structure of Modern Irish contains a comprehensive description of the phonology of Irish.

English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language.

This book proposes that phonological contrast, in particular the robustness of a phonemic contrast, does not depend solely on the presence of minimal pairs, but is instead affected by a set of phonetic, usage-based, and systemic factors.

This volume aims at analyzing the relationship between the dialogical accomplishment of spoken talk-in-interaction on the one hand and entrenched patterns of linguistic and socio-cultural knowledge (constructions, frames, and communicative genres) on the other.

This is the first volume concerned with the phonological typology of syllable and word languages, based on the model of a complex, multi-layered and hierarchically structured phonological system.

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 volume seeks to reevaluate the nature of tone-segment interactions in phonology.

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

The 16 papers contained in this volume address a variety of phonological topics from different theoretical perspectives.

Studies in Interactional Linguistics have provided impressive evidence of the systematic use of vocal, verbal, and visual resources in social interaction.

This work proposes a definition of the notion of salience in sociolinguistics.

The volume represents a state-of-the-art snapshot of the research on prosody for phoneticians, linguists and speech technologists.

Tommo So is a Dogon language with approximately 60,000 speakers in Mali, West Africa.

Roman Jakobson's writings range over the entire field of general linguistics, as well as embracing Slavic linguistics and literature theory.

The volume brings together a well-selected collection of twelve articles providing a comprehensive and very informative summary of contemporary work on lexical blending.

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

The linguistic analysis of runic inscriptions on the Continent tends to focus on individual texts or on groups of texts seen as parallel.

As a result of globalization, higher education institutions throughout the world are adopting English for parts of their education.

Based on the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning in Barcelona on September 17-18, 2009, this volume brings together researchers working on issues of the prosodic encoding and expression of sentence-level meaning.

Sonority has a long and contentious history.

This volume addresses several claims about the two prominence patterns found in English nominal compounds in a rigorously empirical way.

This volume includes papers by leading figures in phonetics and phonology on two topics central to phonological theory: tones and phonological features.

Siraya is a Formosan language once spoken around Tainan City in southwest Taiwan.

This book reviews the history of the interface between morpho-syntax and phonology roughly since World War II.

The book offers a comprehensive overview of forms of modern Irish within a general linguistic framework.