Phonetics, phonology

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.

This Dictionary is the first etymological dictionary of English imitative (onomato-poeic, mimetic) words.

Leading researchers shed new light on the history of the standardisation of English.

This book explores the dynamics of language changes from sociolinguistic and historical linguistic perspectives.

Translating cutting-edge research into practical recommendations for assessment and instruction, this book has helped thousands of readers understand the key role of phonological awareness in the development of reading, writing, and spelling.

Phonology in Context takes a fresh look at phonology in a range of real-world contexts that go beyond traditional concerns and challenge existing assumptions and practices.

This book presents a contrastive linguistics study of Arabic and English for the dual purposes of improved language teaching and speech processing of Arabic via spectral analysis and neural networks.

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrainedWe use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways.

First published in 1939, this book provides a brief but comprehensive view of language in general, and of English and American language in particular.

The book focuses on the interaction of persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

The selected contributions in this volume bring together applications of pragmatics in speech and language pathology, as well as discussions of the applicability of different theoretical strands of the study of human linguistic interaction and its cognitive bases to the field of communication disorders.

Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that studies the syntactic structures of a particular language in order to better understand the semantic issues at play in that language.

This volume brings together articles by some major figures in various linguistics domains - phonology, morphology and syntax - aiming at explaining the form of linguistic items by exploring the structures that underlie them.

This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech.

The Handbook Varieties of English' is by far the most thorough reference work on phonology and the first-ever comprehensive overview of the morphology and syntax of varieties of English in the world.

Mini-set C: Language & Literature re-issues a century of publishing in 8 volumes originally published between 1896 and 1989 and covers phonetics, grammar and syntax of the Japanese language as well as some of its most iconic literature and drama.

A new edition of the popular introductory text on the phonological structure of present-day English.

Stuttering is an affliction that affects every ethnicity and every culture equally, some sixty million people worldwide.

There is currently a wealth of activity involving the analysis of complex segmental sequences from phonetic, phonological and psycholinguistic perspectives.

This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of Kurdish.

This book explores the nature of cognitive representations and processes in speech motor control, based primarily on evidence from speech timing.

This book explores theoretical issues of the syntax-phonology interface within the Minimalist Program of linguistic theory and proposes an entirely new approach to prosodic categories.

First published in 1994.

The book is the most comprehensive account of the phonology of Danish ever published in any language.

This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to the present day.

Picard's methodology has three stages: establishing the sound correspondences between a source language (such as Proto-Algonkian) and a target language (such as Arapaho); exploiting the concept of naturalness in phonological change to the fullest in order to construct working hypotheses as to what the most likely historical processes could have been, and to determine in a nonarbitrary fashion which processes could have taken place simultaneously; and ordering these processes in accordance with the various feeding, bleeding, counterfeeding, and counterbleeding relations that exist between a great many pairs of diachronic processes.

Leading researchers in the field of spoken discourse and language teaching offer an empirically informed, issues-based discussion of the present state of research into spoken language.

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.