Combining coverage of the key concepts and tools within phonetics and phonology with a systematic introduction to Praat, this textbook provides a lively and engaging 'way in' to the discipline.
This book presents the effects of perceptual training on the perception of English lexical stress in rising intonation by Mandarin-speaking EFL learners in Taiwan, and shows that these effects can be positive as well as negative.
This book aims to provide an account of both what and how onomatopoeia communicate by applying ideas from the relevance theoretic framework of utterance interpretation.
This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic.
Quel Canadien francophone, venant du Québec, du Nouveau-Brunswick ou de l'Ouest, ne s'est pas entendu dire, lors d'un voyage à Paris ou à Bruxelles, le fameux: «Mais ce que vous dites n'est pas français!
Connue pour son côté sombre que sont les manquements et les scandales qui la propulsent dans les manchettes, l'éthique est pourtant bien plus que cela: un outil précieux pour se réapproprier l'art de réfléchir et d'interagir avec les autres.
This book is the first hands-on roadmap for conducting rigorous experimental research on second language speech processing and spoken word recognition.
Comparative study of literature is an important discipline, which has opened several avenues of studying cultures of different religions, and countries.
Volume 1 of the most up-to-date and comprehensive description of the Spanish language's phonetic and phonological systemThough there has been considerable research on Spanish phonetics and phonology, until now, there has been no in-depth and complete descriptive reference work.
This book documents an understudied phenomenon in Austronesian languages, namely the existence of recurrent submorphemic sound-meaning associations of the general form -CVC.
In the late eighteenth century Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen, inspired by the success of his Mechanical Turk, which purported to be an automaton capable of playing chess, set out to create a machine that could actually speak, simulating the organs of speech by means of a series of bellows, pipes, and valves.
This book offers a comprehensive resource on the state-of-the-art in L2 pronunciation, surveying the most up-to-date theoretical and methodological developments to highlight the multidimensional nature of pronunciation scholarship and directions for future research.
