Phonetics, phonology

There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how, or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done.

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.

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneous speech, as well as texts read aloud.

Provides in-depth, nuanced and critical analyses of many theoretical approaches to neutralization in phonology.

This workbook combines methodology and practice for beginning translators with a solid proficiency in French.

The first comprehensive introduction to Auslan, exploring key aspects of its structure and use.

Explores the concept of tone, its physical properties and intricate patterning in phonology, to unravel key ''mysteries'' that have been subject to great debate in the field.

The author addresses a number of issues in German and general phonology, using a specific problem in German phonology (the ach/ich alternation) as a springboard.

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 volume brings together new research on theoretical Romance Linguistics; its intended audience is scholars in the field of formal grammar, especially those specializing in Romance languages.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to phonological theory and analysis, A Critical Introduction to Phonology introduces the key aspects of the discipline.

Topics in Phonological Theory is a six-chapter text that provides an explication of some of the most important problems in phonological theory, with a few, necessarily tentative, solutions.

This textbook shows students how to analyze phonological problems with a focus on practical tools, methodology and step-by-step instructions.

This book presents a phenomenon-oriented survey of the interaction between phonology and morphology.

The term 'Maya', in Indian traditions, refers to our sensory perception of the world and, as such, to a superficial reality (or 'un-reality') that we must look beyond to find the inner reality of things.

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

Das Ryukyuanische ist die einzig nachweisbar mit dem Japanischen verwandte Sprache und wird in einer Vielzahl von Dialekten auf dem gesamten Okinawa-Archipel gesprochen.

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This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on Hawaiian, Maori, Niuean, Samoan, and Tongan.

As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the Chinese rhyme tables, this book seeks to reconstruct the ancient rhyme tables based on the extant materials and findings.

This volume brings classic texts from the last thirty years together with contemporary, cutting-edge perspectives on child language.

A comprehensive textbook examining how both ''normal'' and brain-damaged speakers process language in the brain.

Provides in-depth, nuanced and critical analyses of many theoretical approaches to neutralization in phonology.

Prosodies, in the broad Firthian sense, covers phenomena that extend over stretches of segmental and featural units that must be examined with respect to their interaction with other features to fully appreciate their role in the phonetics and phonology of a given language.

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other.

At the end of 1998, Professor Pieter Muysken was awarded the Spinoza prize of the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NOW) and set up a research program entitled "e;Lexicon and Syntax"e;.

The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry starts from a simple fact: our written language does not represent the way we speak.

This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and characteristics of Icelandic and Faroese.

First published in 1985.

This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Spanish.

The traditional dialect spoken in the Shetland Isles, the northernmost part of Scotland and Britain, is highly distinct.

This accessible textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonetics, the study of speech.

Syllable and Segment in Latin offers new and detailed analyses of five long-standing problems in Latin historical phonology.