This text is an introduction to practical phonetics - the description and classification of the sounds of speech. It describes over 120 introspective experiments for readers to carry out.
Descriptive English Linguistics: An Introduction
This introduction to linguistics is especially designed for students of English with a German-speaking background. It concentrates on the traditional core areas of linguistics, without neglecting interdisciplinary and applied branches. For this 4th, revised edition all chapters …
Descriptive English linguistics: an introduction
Poets, academics and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. Such intuitions are the point of departure in this investigation into the expressive effect of sound patter…
Poets, academics and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. Such intuitions are the point of departure in this investigation into the expressive effect of sound patter…