Phonetics, phonology

Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that hinders the learning of literacy skills.

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This book provides a start of defining the uni- and multi-phonational tone systems of geographically-connected dialects under a phonation-pitch tonal model.

The Bloomsbury Companion To Phonetics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics.

Speech sound production is one of the most complex human activities: it is also one of the least well understood.

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

First published in 1994.

This book was first published in 1922, Language is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

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.

British English Phonetic Transcription provides an accessible introduction to phonemic, phonetic and intonational transcription with a focus on British English.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, and includes a synthesis of research findings relating to reading in the non-Roman alphabet.

First published in 1986.

Phonetically reduced forms are plentiful, theoretically interesting, and a key challenge for automatic speech recognition systems.

Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.

This book documents an understudied phenomenon in Austronesian languages, namely the existence of recurrent submorphemic sound-meaning associations of the general form -CVC.

This book investigates the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in spoken English and implications for a theory of the syntax-prosody interface.

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

In this book, some of today's leading neurolinguists and psycholinguists provide insight into the nature of phonological processing using behavioural measures, computational modeling, EEG and fMRI.

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

While it is commonly assumed that languages epenthesize context-free default vowels, this book shows that in loanword adaptation, several strategies are found which interact intricately.

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication.

This book presents a comparative reconstruction of the common phonology of the Chinese dialects using representative data from living dialects.

First published in 1995.

Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener.

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.

Now in its second edition, A Handbook of Diction for Singers is a complete guide to achieving professional levels of diction in Italian, German, and French, the three major languages of the classical vocal repertory.

This is an attempt to view historical phonological change as an ongoing, recurrent process.

This is a sequel to the author's Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies (1995).

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.

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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 book addresses important issues of speech processing and language learning in Chinese.