Phonetics, phonology Books

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies human speech and sounds, their production, acoustic properties and auditory perception. It also explores the properties of meaningful sound contrasts as well as the social meaning pertaining to the sound...

The term 'Maya', in Indian traditions, refers to our sensory perception of the world and, as such, to a superficial reality (or 'un-reality') that we must look beyond to find the inner reality of things. Applied to the study of language, we perceive...

Das Buch ""Johann Hubners Poetisches Handbuch: Das Ist, Ein Vollst�����ndiges Reim-Register (1696)"" von Johann Hubner ist ein umfassendes Nachschlagewerk f�����r Dichter und Schriftsteller. Es enth�����lt eine alphabetische Liste von Reimen, die nach...

Les Vrais Principes De La Lecture, De L�������Orthographe, Part 1-2: Et De La Prononciation Francoises (1778) est un livre �����crit par Nicolas-Antoine Viard. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage qui traite des principes fondamentaux de la lecture, de l'orthographe...

Zur Ermittlung von kontextspezifischen Korrespondenzbeziehungen entwickelt die Autorin ein graphotaktisches Verfahren und wendet es exemplarisch an. Der Analyseapparat ermöglicht es, existente Korrespondenzentsprechungen zwischen lautlichen und...

The National Pronouncing Speller is a book written by Richard Green Parker and published in 1858. The book is designed to help people learn how to spell words correctly and to pronounce them accurately. It contains a comprehensive list of words, arranged...

""A Dictionary In Persian And English: With The Pronunciation Of Persian Words In The Roman Character"" is a reference book written by Sen Ramdhun and published in 1841. The book contains a comprehensive list of Persian words with their English...

Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Ausspracheproblemen chinesischer Deutschlernender im Rahmen von Einzelfallstudien. Die Untersuchung konzentrierte sich auf die Problembereiche Phonotaktik, suprasegmentale und segmentale Abweichungen unter...

Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist die spezifische Ausprägung des Stimmhaftigkeitskontrastes deutscher Plosive beim Flüstern als einem Sprechmodus, der durch das Fehlen von Stimmton gekennzeichnet ist. Anhand akustischer Daten sieben deutscher Sprecher...

The field of South Asian linguistics has undergone considerable growth and advancement in recent years, as a wider and more diverse range of languages have become subject to serious linguistic study, and as advancements in theoretical linguistics are...

Read Assure takes advantage of the best asset all children have in abundance: tremendous brain power hungry for challenges. Children as young as four have successfully mastered reading English through phonics using Read Assure. The ability to read raises...

Southern Mǐn refers to a group of Chinese dialects spoken mainly in Southeast China and Taiwan. This group occupies a special position in the study of Chinese dialects, not only because of its large population of speakers (around 48 million) but also...

The book focuses on the interaction of persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ASD is a neurobiological developmental disorder, characterized by problems with social interaction, over-sensitivity to sensory stimuli and restricted interest (APA 2013)...

This book presents a comparative reconstruction of the common phonology of the Chinese dialects using representative data from living dialects. The resulting phonology includes all categories and phonological distinctions that are represented in the...

This book contrasts variations in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation, using as a reference for discussion the mainstream careful speech of news anchors at the national level or the equivalent type of speech: a well-educated style that...

This work is based on my 1983 doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University, although it represents an extensive revision and reorganization of that work. Large amounts of material that...

"...this work represents a key case study in the study of the prosody and syntax interactions." (Pilar Prieto, Lingua 115, 2005)  

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. Since 1988, the Yearbook of Morphology book series has proven to be an eminent platform for the growth of morphological research, containing articles on...

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The aim of the Yearbook of Morphology series is to support and enforce this upswing of morphological research and to give an overview of the current issues...

This book takes you on a journey of three months that will change the rest of your life. You will be inspired by the experiences of famous orators from history. The key concepts will become clear and correct speaking will become a second nature as you...

The Advanced Rhyming Dictionary represents the culmination of more than seven years of work. It is the first of its kind and is a compendium of two and three syllable multisyllabic rhyme schemes aimed at rappers, poets, educators and academics.Adam...

This book is a comprehensive study on the phonetic characteristics of citation tones in Chaoshan Chinese. It presents the tonal patterns of 65 localities in the Chaoshan area under the "multiple-register and four-level" tonal model. Three case studies...

This book presents cutting-edge research on the production and perception of speech rhythm by speakers of English in countries where it is used as a foreign language or an institutionalised second language (also sometimes known as the Expanding and Outer...

This book brings together selected revised papers representing a multidisciplinary approach to language, music, and gesture, as well as their interaction. Among the number of multidisciplinary and comparative studies of the structure and organization of...

This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description, study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish. What are the sources of phonotactic complexity? What properties or principles motivate the phonological structure of initial and...

This book offers a laboratory phonological analysis of the sonority hierarchy and natural classes in nasal harmony using an artificial grammar-learning paradigm. It is aimed at postgraduate students and linguists in general whose research interests lie...

This volume explores the elusive subject of English prosody-the stress, rhythm and intonation of the language-, and its relevance for English language teaching. Its sharp focus will be especially welcomed by teachers of English to non-native speakers,...

This book contains some of the material which originally appeared in my Ph. D. thesis Lexical Phonology, submitted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but it can hardly be called a revised version of the thesis. The...

This book is a revised version of my Ph.D. dissertation that was submitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. Although much of the analysis and argumentation of the dissertation has survived rewriting, the...

De fonologie beschouwt het als haar taak, de klanksystemen der verschillende talen alsmede de functies van elk hunner elementen te bestuderen. En die taak vloeit voort uit het inzicht, dat de klanken ener taal een geordend...

Second language phonology is approached in this book from the perspective of data-based studies into the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers of the language. The book offers a unique combination of psycholinguistic,...

The current volume is a collection of papers representing the most recent developments in linguistics, specifically in the fields of language, discourse and translation studies. It includes papers representative of traditionally distinguished linguistic...

In this work, the authors present a fully statistical approach to model non--native speakers' pronunciation. Second-language speakers pronounce words in multiple different ways compared to the native speakers. Those deviations, may it be phoneme...

It has been traditional in phonetic research to characterize monophthongs using a set of static formant frequencies, i.e., formant frequencies taken from a single time-point in the vowel or averaged over the time-course of the vowel. However, over the...

This book examines the names by which we refer to the letters of the English alphabet, arguing that these letter names provide unrivalled insights into the phonological structure of English, present and past, as well as the many peculiarities of English...

Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters...

stimme und Gehör sind die beiden Endpunkte derjenigen interhumanen Kom­ munikationskette, die sich akustischer Signale zur Übermittelung von In­ formationen bedient. Stimme und Gehör allein und ein zwischen dem Stimm­ organ und...

The book argues for the underlying status of the vowel y on the basis of palatalization processes in Polish. It is shown that the absence of y is empirically unfeasible as it leads to morphologization of completely regular phonological rules and demands...

The Fifth International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology took place in 2009 at the Silesian University in Opava (Czech Republic). This volume contains papers presented at the workshop. The papers treat thematically various aspects of Baltic and...

Representing Phonological DetailPart I: Segmental Structure and RepresentationsPart II: Syllable, Stress and Sign Part II of Representing Phonological Detail focuses on the latest phonological research on suprasegmental structure and sign language. The...

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. The first main theme in this...

There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how, or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done. This book presents a comprehensive methodology for syntactic reconstruction, grounded in a constructional understanding of...

The choice of a pronunciation model for the 21st century learner has become a major issue of debate among applied linguists concerned with teaching English. The standard pronunciation models - Received Pronunciation and General American - have recently...

The Phonology / Paraphonology Interface and the Sounds of German Across Time is an excursion into the phonology of the German language in the present, the remote prehistoric past (Indo-European and Germanic), and throughout the almost thousand-year...

Das Buch ""Anatomie und Physiologie des menschlichen Stimm- und Sprach-Organs, Teil 2"" von Carl Ludwig Merkel wurde im Jahr 1863 ver������ffentlicht. Es ist ein umfassendes Werk, das sich mit der Anatomie und Physiologie des Stimm- und Sprachapparats...