Phonetics, phonology

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.

This book includes the work of experts from a wide range of backgrounds who share the desire to understand how the human brain represents words.

The present volume contains a selection of the papers and commentaries which were originally presented at the Tenth Conference of Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon10) held in Paris from June 29 to July 1, 2006.

Dieses Studienbuch ist eine grundlegende Einführung in das Fach Phonetik als Teildisziplin der Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft.

Complexity approaches, developed in physics and biology for almost two decades, show today a huge potential for investigating challenging issues in Humanities and Cognitive Sciences and obviously in the study of language(s).

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

No sound class requires so much basic knowledge of phonology, acoustics, aerodynamics, and speech production as obstruents (turbulent sounds) do.

The aim of this book is to demonstrate that, in a representation-based model, the phonological organization of speech sounds within a word is reducible to the licensing properties of nuclei with respect to structurally defined complexities which pose varying demands on the licenser.

The book is concerned with the interaction of syntax, information structure and prosody in the history of English, demonstrating this with a case study of object topicalization.

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.