Phonetics, phonology

This unique book examines how children learn to read across seventeen languages and their orthographies.

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

First published in 1990.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Einführung in die experimentelle Phonetik" verfügbar.

A comprehensive 2007 survey of the development and present-day features of English in Northern and the Republic of Ireland.

Anybody who reads or writes Chinese characters knows that they obey a grammar of sorts: though numerous, they are built out of a much smaller set of constituents, often interpretable in meaning or pronunciation, that are themselves built out of an even smaller set of strokes.

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.

Initially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer.

First published in 1994.

Tone: A Linguistic Survey is a nine-chapter text that considers the phonetics and phonology of tone from both a synchronic and a diachronic point of view.

This book is the first volume specifically devoted to the phonetics and phonology of geminate consonants, a feature of many of the world's languages including Arabic, Bengali, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Malayalam, Persian, Saami, Swiss German, and Turkish.

The "e;smart mobile"e; has become an essential and inseparable part of our lives.

David Crystal's A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field.

This descriptive reference grammar of Nishnaabemwin (Odawa and Eastern Ojibwe), a major dialect group within contemporary Ojibwe spoken in the vicinity of Lake Huron in Southern Ontario, represents the most comprehensive works on an Algonquin language published to date.

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

This book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English, focusing specifically on linguistic structure.

A study of how humans weave the sound-patterns of language, informed by insights from linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience and genetics.

This book is the first comprehensive account of the phonology and morphology of Arabic.

The essays in this volume address a core question regarding the structure of linguistic systems: how much access do the grammatical components - syntax, morphology and phonology - have to each other?

Generative phonology is a developing field of linguistics, and is producing both rival interpretations and models.

The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents.

First published in 1994.

The clear and easy way to get a handle on the science of speech The science of how people produce and perceive speech, phonetics has an array of real-world applications, from helping engineers create an authentic sounding Irish or Canadian accent for a GPS voice, to assisting forensics investigators identifying the person whose voice was caught on tape, to helping a film actor make the transition to the stage.

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

This book presents a formal framework for the analysis of word structure in human language.

First published in 1985.

First published in 1989.

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

Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect: Domains and Rule Application is the first attempt to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the Fuzhou phonological system from the perspective of prosodic phonology.

On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition's History and Pedagogy tells the stories of composition's techno-history, from the roads of the ancient world, which allowed students to travel to school, to the audio-visual aids that populate the classrooms of the modern world.

This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on Lexical Functional Grammar.

The Handbook of English Pronunciation presents a comprehensive exploration of English pronunciation with essential topics for applied linguistics researchers and teachers, including language acquisition, varieties of English, historical perspectives, accent s changing role, and connections to discourse, technology, and pedagogy.

This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, the mother language of modern Basque varieties, historical Basque, and Aquitanian, grounded in traditional methods of historical linguistics.

Sounds Interesting explores a range of current and widely researched topics such as pronunciation, teaching, intonation, spelling, and accents.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Das Phänomen der Nasalität" verfügbar.

Phonetics is the scientific study of sounds used in language- how the sounds are produced, how they are transferred from the speaker to the hearer and how they are heard and perceived.

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.

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

Writing Systems and Phonetics provides students with a critical understanding of the writing systems of the world.

In this comprehensive introduction, Anne-Michelle Tessier examines how we acquire the sounds and sound patterns of language.

This book is the seventh and last volume of that great work by Otto Jespersen the first volume of which was published in 1909.

A fascinating (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigationan entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time (The New York Times Book Review).

First published in 1988, Language, Speech and Mind consists of 18 specially invited contributions to mark Professor Fromkin's 65th birthday in 1988.

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

The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of research, history and techniques in phonetics.

Understanding Phonology, Fourth Edition provides a clear, accessible and broad introduction to Phonology.

Pronunciaciones del espanol es una introduccion accesible a la fonetica y la fonologia del espanol que destaca la diversidad de pronunciaciones empleadas en el mundo hispanohablante.