Phonetics, phonology

An original new perspective on the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan, with a particular focus on their phonological development.

This volume is comprehensively designed to help prospective teachers of English Language (EL), and teachers specializing in English as a foreign language (EFL), mainly in South Asian countries.

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.

his Element provides an overview of existing descriptions of the pronunciation of Standard Malay and some dialects.

This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again.

The second edition of the popular English Phonetics and Phonology textbook has been extensively updated and expanded to offer greater flexibility for teachers and increased support for non-native speakers studying the sound systems of English.

This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent.

This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

The phonology, morphology and lexicon of late Zhou Chinese are examined in this volume.

Clear English Pronunciation provides students with the tools to effectively communicate in English without centring solely on native-speaker pronunciation models.

The two volumes of the Phonological Spectrum aim at giving a comprehensive overview of current developments in phonological theory, by providing a number of papers in different areas of current theorizing which reflect on particular problems from different angles.

The Glot International State-of-the-Article books constitute the ideal solution for every-one who wants to have a good idea of what the others are doing but does not have time to follow the developments in all other parts of the field on a day to day basis.

Explores the role of linguistics in promoting justice and equality with regard to ethnic minorities, legal matters and civil rights.

This book sheds new light on the form and function of morphemes in construction of words in the Bengali language.

The book analyzes the articulatory motivation of several adaptation processes (place assimilations, blending, coarticulation) involving consecutive consonants in heterosyllabic consonant sequences within the framework of the degree of articulatory constraint model of coarticulation.

An entertaining, informative, and elegantly designed guide that makes understanding punctuation marks and symbols simple and fun.

The overall aim of the book is to provide an integrated view of the separate stages of the speech chain, covering the production process, speech data analysis and speech perception.

The negros congos of Panama's Caribbean coast are a unique cultural manifestation of Afro-Hispanic contact.

Explores the nature of stress and accent patterns in natural language using a diverse range of theories, methods and data.

This volume showcases recent sociolinguistic research about Wales and offers contributions from scholars working on Welsh, English and other languages spoken in the country.

Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson and Greenberg, phonological typology is often underrepresented in typology textbooks.

A state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, presenting revision of an influential model alongside new empirical studies.

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.

Integrated practice and discovery problems in various languages encourage students to think analytically and scientifically about language.

English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice provides a unique introduction to basic articulatory phonetics for students of English.

This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources.

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period.

In putting ‘morphonology’ up for adoption as a chapitre particulier in 1929, Trubetzkoy started a debate regarding the boundary between phonology and morphology that has not ended yet.