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Pronouncing English is a textbook for teaching English phonetics and phonology, offering an original "stress-based" approach while incorporating all the standard course topics. Drawing on current linguistic theory, it uniquely analyzes prosody first, and then discusses its effec…
This textbook is a basic introduction to phonetics as a subdiscipline of general linguistics. All areas of phonetics are presented in depth (phonation, articulation, acoustics, perception, etc.), along with a short history of the discipline. The main objective of this introducti…
"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."--Publisher description.
Das Buch untersucht Vokalepenthese unter dem Gesichtspunkt, welcher Vokal eingefügt wird. Lehnwortkorpora des Shona, Sranan, Samoanischen und Kinyarwanda werden statistisch analysiert, und die Ergebnisse optimalitätstheoretisch modelliert. Alle untersuchten Sprachen zeigen eine …
This volume presents a full-scale biography of Daniel Jones, a preeminent scholar and Britsih phonetician of the early 20th century, and the first linguist to hold a chair at a British university. This book traces Jone's life and career, including his contacts with other linguis…
"Reading this volume transported me back to Harvard and MIT lecture halls of the 1960s, where weekly Roman Jakobson would spellbind his audience (this reviewer included), developing his vision of language through impassioned exposition, deft and devastating allusions to critical…