Phonetics, phonology

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

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.

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

Tonal accents in Norwegian: Phonology, morphology and lexical specification breaks from the traditional and contemporary analyses of word accent in North Germanic with the goal of providing a more simplex and unified morphophonological analysis of word accents in North Germanic.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.