Phonetics, phonology

Aside from learning the alphabet, a preschooler must also be exposed to phonics.

Influence your child's vocabulary today and he/she will enjoy reading and writing tomorrow.

How important are sight words?

Learn about sight words, and prepare yourself for a wonderful reading adventure!

This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic.

This book presents the effects of perceptual training on the perception of English lexical stress in rising intonation by Mandarin-speaking EFL learners in Taiwan, and shows that these effects can be positive as well as negative.

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.

This book presents a detailed sociolinguistic study of the traditionally Catalan-speaking areas of Southern France, and sheds new light on language attitudes, phonetic variation, language ideologies and minority language rights.

This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives.

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.

This book conducts a thorough investigation of the variation in tone sandhi patterns of Shanghai and Wuxi Wu using quantitative rating experiments.

Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another language in speech communities across the Hispanophone world influences their manifestation.

This volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as ideophones, mimetics, and expressives.

In recent years, an increasing number of linguists have re-examined the question of whether markedness has explanatory power, or whether it is a phenomenon that begs explanation itself.

What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language?

This book provides a cutting-edge exploration of the social meaning of phonetic variation in the Spanish-speaking world.

This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description, study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish.

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

This book is a comprehensive study on the phonetic characteristics of citation tones in Chaoshan Chinese.

This is a self-contained monograph on human voice.

This book offers a laboratory phonological analysis of the sonority hierarchy and natural classes in nasal harmony using an artificial grammar-learning paradigm.

This accessible book provides an overview of fluency disorders.

A work to introduce linguists to dynamic systems focusing on serial order, speech perception, speech production, and phonological theory.

Written in a clear, approachable way, this is an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to phonetics, ideal for beginners.

In diesem Buch wird auf verständliche Weise das komplexe Thema der zwischenmenschlichen Kommunikation behandelt.

This book focuses on the linguistic perspective of classical Chinese poetry and its changes and development in diff erent historical periods.

This book focuses on the linguistic perspective of classical Chinese poetry and its changes and development in diff erent historical periods.

The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language brings together contributions on such issues as Cantonese textbooks, linguistic description, literacy and tone acquisition, supplemented by case studies from the Netherlands and Japan.

Concreteness in Generative Phonology presents major topics in French phonology and morphology within the theoretical framework of generative grammar.

As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the Chinese rhyme tables, this book seeks to reconstruct the ancient rhyme tables based on the extant materials and findings.

As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the Chinese rhyme tables, this book seeks to reconstruct the ancient rhyme tables based on the extant materials and findings.

The Element describes the continued technological transformations that are incrementally, but radically, changing everyday life practices.

Linguistics for Singers: An Introduction is a textbook and manual that provides singers with a foundation in linguistic features of four major singing languages-English, Italian, French, and German-and shows how these features can be used to inform vocal performance and interpretation.

Linguistics for Singers: An Introduction is a textbook and manual that provides singers with a foundation in linguistic features of four major singing languages-English, Italian, French, and German-and shows how these features can be used to inform vocal performance and interpretation.

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.

This volume, first published in 1960 to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of Jespersen, collects together as many of his writings as possible in order to allow students of the English language, or indeed of language in general, to read those shorter papers which have hitherto escaped their notice.

The Routledge Handbook of Portuguese Phonology provides an up-to-date description of the Portuguese phonological system, including a thorough account of the fundamental concepts, data, and previous explanations, as well as the status quaestionis, directions for future research, and further reading.

This accessible book provides an overview of fluency disorders.

Little children cannot be stuck with just learning letters.

At second grade, your child should already be quite a reader.

Make reading less boring by training your child to see and read sight words.

Make learning fun and easy through the early introduction of sight words.

Instead of forcing your child to read boring texts, why don't you the process a lot more fun and engaging?

This book discusses what sight words are, and how important the understanding of this key reading concept is.

This book presents the findings from original research about court interpreting in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences from a linguistic perspective.

Effects of morphological structure on phonetic detail present us with two challenges.

This resource supports TESOL preservice and in-service teachers and curriculum designers in teaching pronunciation more effectively.