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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 off...

No sound class requires so much basic knowledge of phonology, acoustics, aerodynamics, and speech production as obstruents (turbulent sounds) do. This book is intended to bridge a gap by introducin...

The monograph contains two case studies dealing with the phonetics and phonology of affricates and laryngeals from a survey of 281 languages. The empirical findings go counter to a number of assump...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 0. INTRODUCTION -- Part One. PHONOLOGY -- 1. COLLOQUIAL AND STANDARD PHONOLOGICAL SIMILARITIES -- 2. COLLOQUIAL AND LITERARY MORPHOPHONEMIC DIFFERENCES -- 3. E...

Complexity approaches, developed in physics and biology for almost two decades, show today a huge potential for investigating challenging issues in Humanities and Cognitive Sciences and obviously i...

Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION TO ROMAN JAKOBSON, SELECTED WRITINGS -- REFERENCES -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- The Concept of the Sound Law and the Teleological Criterion -- Proposition au Premier Congrè...

This study is an investigation into the comparative phonology and lexicon of six barely-known Bantu varieties spoken in Kenya. These varieties (Imenti, Igoji, Tharaka, Mwimbi, Muthambi and Chuka) b...

Tone is about melody and meaning, inflection is about grammar, and this book is about a bit of both. The contributions to this volume study possible and sometimes complex ways in which the tones of...

No book has ever been published on tonal change and neutralization, two closely related topics in tonal phonology. This will be the first book to be devoted to both. The articles collected in this ...

The status of grammaticalization has been the subject of many controversial discussions. The contributions to What makes Grammaticalization? approach the prevalent phenomenon from the angle of lang...

Tonal accents in Norwegian: Phonology, morphology and lexical specification breaks from the traditional and contemporary analyses of word accent in North Germanic with the goal of providing a more ...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 SURFACE PHONOLOGY -- 2 THE NOUN, ADJECTIVE AND PRONOUN -- 3 THE VERB -- 4 LOCAL VARIATION -- 5 STANDARD FORMS -- 6 SUM...

This book will create greater public awareness of some recent exciting findings in the formal study of poetry. The last influential volume on the subject, Rhythm and Meter , edited by Paul Kiparsky...

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PHONOLOGY: VOCALIC -- 3. PHONOLOGY:CONSONANTS -- 4. PHONOLOGY: SPORADIC CHANGE -- 5. CO...

Descriptive and Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics contains a selection of revised and peer-reviewed papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at Michigan State...