Phonetics, phonology

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

This groundbreaking book highlights a phonological preference, the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation, as a factor in grammatical variation and change in English from the early modern period to the present.

The present volume is an edited collection of original contributions which all deal with the issue of recursion in human language(s).

The book consists of nine chapters dealing with the interaction of speech perception and phonology.

The volume presents recent results in the field of Information Structure based on research on Italian and Italian dialects, and on further studies on several typologically different languages.

Why does the accent jump back and forth in Russian words like golova 'head', acc.

This book puts together recent theoretical developments in prosodic phonology by leading specialists and presents language particular investigations on the morphosyntax-phonology interface by expert linguists working on diverse languages such as German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish.

This comprehensive project has the objective of describing and assessing pronunciation talent with special focus on its psychological and neural correlates.

This collection of papers focuses on the general theme of phonological strength, bringing together current work being undertaken in a variety of leading theoretical frameworks.

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

Despite the recent advances in the integration of lexical tone and intonation in phonological theory, all too often the study of intonation and the study of lexical tone are viewed as belonging to different research traditions.

Die vorgestellte Arbeit befasst sich mit der Sprechmelodie des (Standard-)Deutschen und untersucht drei zentrale sprechmelodische Einheiten, die zusammen mit betonten Wörtern auftreten.

In diesem Buch werden die sprachlichen Möglichkeiten für den Ausdruck von Schmerz im Deutschen analysiert.

The volume demonstrates the interdependence of man's language capacity and his other conceptual capacities.

This book takes contrast, an issue that has been central to phonological theory since Saussure, as its central theme, making explicit its importance to phonological theory, perception, and acquisition.

There are books on tone, coronals, the internal structure of segments, vowel harmony, and a couple of other topics in phonology.

This book is relevant for phonologists, morphologists, Slavists and cognitive linguists, and addresses two questions: How can the morphology-phonology interface be accommodated in cognitive linguistics?

Während die regionale Variation auf der Ebene der segmentellen Phonetik/Phonologie zu weiten Teilen beschrieben ist, steckt die dialektologische Intonationsforschung noch weitgehend in den Kinderschuhen, obwohl regionalspezifische Intonationsmerkmale sowohl in der Laien- als auch in der Forschermeinung als perzeptiv besonders signifikant gelten.

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.

This book will create greater public awareness of some recent exciting findings in the formal study of poetry.

This thorough study of the expression of contrast in the world's vowel systems examines phonetic and phonological differences between so-called strong and weak positions, bringing the full range of data from positional neutralization systems to bear on central questions at the interface between phonetics and phonology.

This book proposes a new model of phonology that integrates rules and repairs triggered by markedness constraints in a classical derivational model.

Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory covers the major issues in the generative analysis of vowel harmony and vowel harmony typology.

The comprehensive analysis of the segmental and metrical system of the Swiss German dialect of Thurgovian provides a significant contribution to both phonetic and phonological theory.

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.

This collection of recent papers in Laboratory Phonology approaches phonological theory from several different empirical directions.

This book argues that Carnatic music as it is practiced today can be traced to the musical practices of early/mid eighteenth century.

Non-Native Prosody: Phonetic Description and Teaching Practice is a response to the increasing interest in the field of prosody in second language acquisition and teaching.

This volume draws together papers that argue for a renewed focus on the role of hard constraints on phonological representations as well as the processes that operate on them.

Dieser Band versammelt zehn Aufsatze, in denen Monosyllaba in verschiedenen Sprachen Asiens, Afrikas und Europas aus unterschiedlichsten Perspektiven betrachtet werden.