Phonetics, phonology

This book investigates the acquisition of intonation by German/English bilingual children.

Why does the accent jump back and forth in Russian words like golova 'head', acc.

This book was first published in 1947, Mankind, Nation and Individual is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

The first introduction to clitics, providing a complete summary of their properties and their uses.

In this first book-length study of synchronic umlaut, a comprehensive comparative analysis of the phonology and morphology of the umlaut alternation in present-day German and the Austronesian language Chamorro is presented in the framework of Optimality Theory.

Siraya is a Formosan language once spoken around Tainan City in southwest Taiwan.

This book investigates syllable structure and phonotactic restructuring in six Caribbean creoles with Dutch, English and French as main lexifier languages.

This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosody from a phonological perspective, for advanced students and researchers in phonology.

Ce livre présente quatre études sur la phonologie du schwa français.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.

This book is a revised version of my Ph.

The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory provides a comprehensive overview of the major contemporary approaches to phonology.

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?

This volume draws together papers that argue for a renewed focus on the role of hard constraints on phonological representations as well as the processes that operate on them.

Optimality Theory and Language Change: -discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail; -treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish; -shows that the application of OT allows for innovative and improved analyses; -allows researchers that appeal to OT to see the connections of their (usually synchronic) work with diachronic studies; -contains a complete bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change.

The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences provides an authoritative account of the key topics in both theoretical and applied areas of speech communication, written by an international team of leading scholars and practitioners.

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

THIS book is intended for the beginning student in Germanic Philology and, in particular, for students of Old English.

Championing Science shows scientists how to persuasively communicate complex scientific ideas to decision makers in government, industry, and education.

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.

What is the role of prosody in the generation of sentence structure?

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use.

This is a new and revised edition of the title first published by OUP in 2000.

A comprehensive and detailed overview of the field of phonology, written by the world''s leading experts in the field.

This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity.

First published in 1988.

Representing Phonological DetailPart I: Segmental Structure and RepresentationsPart II: Syllable, Stress and Sign Part I of Representing Phonological Detail focuses on the latest phonological research on a range of issues.

Doing Optimality Theory brings together examples and practical, detailed advice for undergraduates and graduate students working in linguistics.

This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure.