"Children often mispronounce words when learning their first language. Is it because they cannot perceive the differences that adults make or is it because they can't produce the sounds involved? Neither hypothesis is sufficient on its own to explain the facts. On the basis of d…
"Aimed principally at the undergraduate student, this exciting new textbook provides a compact presentation of the fundamental concepts of phonology." "The four main themes - syllable structure, feature structure, rules and stress/rhythm - include illuminating references to a va…
"Aimed principally at the undergraduate student, this exciting new textbook provides a compact presentation of the fundamental concepts of phonology." "The four main themes - syllable structure, feature structure, rules and stress/rhythm - include illuminating references to a va…
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 last twenty years a growing…
This book provides a unique and accessible account of current research on reading and dyslexia in different orthographies. While most research has been conducted in English, this text presents cross-language comparisons to provide insights into universal aspects of reading devel…
This document is one of 17 volumes on indigenous Mexican languages and is the result of a project undertaken by the Archivo de Lenguas Indigenas de Mexico. This volume contains information on Mayo, an indigenous language of Mexico spoken in Los Capomos, in the state of Sinaloa. …
For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is …
