Phonetics Phonics category: 210 books
Frontiers of Phonology
Atoms, Structures and Derivations
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Frontiers of Phonology is a collection of essays that present a selective overview of trends in the linguistic analysis of sound structure. The essays are written by specialists from Europe, Canada and the USA and discuss issues from three broad areas of phonology: the nature and representation of...
Principes de phonologie de Nikolaï Troubetzkoy
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Parus en allemand en 1939, les Principes de phonologie constituent le huitième volume des Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague, fondé en 1928 par Nikolaï Sergueïevitch Troubetzkoy (1890-1938) et Roman Jakobson, et décidé...
Phonological Awareness in Reading
The Evolution of Current Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this volumume prominent scholars from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds are brought together to review the empirical studies on the ability to reflect upon and manipulate the phonemic segments of speech, and to present their insights on the relationship of phonological aware- ness to the reading process.
Handbook of the International Phonetic Association
A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1999
This book is a comprehensive guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet, whose aim is to provide a universally agreed system of notation for the sounds of languages, and which has been widely used for over a century. The Handbook presents the basics of phonetic analysis so that the principles underlying...
Foundations of Voice Studies
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Voice Production and Perception
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Foundations of Voice Studies provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the multifaceted role that voice quality plays in human existence.
Offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on all facets of voice perception, illustrating why listeners hear what they do and how they reach...
by Daniel Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The function of language is to transmit information from speakers to listeners. This book investigates an aspect of linguistic sound patterning that has traditionally been assumed to interfere with this function – neutralization, a conditioned limitation on the distribution of a language's contrastive...
English Pronunciation Teaching and Research
Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
This book offers contemporary perspectives on English pronunciation teaching and research in the context of increasing multilingualism and English as an international language. It reviews current theory and practice in pronunciation pedagogy, language learning, language assessment, and technological...
Das Erste Englische Lesebuch für Medizinische Fachangestellte
Stufen A1 und A2 Zweisprachig mit Englisch-deutscher Übersetzung
Language: German
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Bei diesem Lehrbuch handelt es sich um ein Lesebuch speziell für medizinische Fachangestellte, und dementsprechend behandeln die Lektionstexte und Vokabeln auch Themen wie Patientengespräche, Diagnostik, die Beschreibung von Symptomen und vieles mehr, was man im Kontakt mit Ärzten und Patienten...
Second Language Pronunciation Assessment
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This book is open access under a CC BY licence. It spans the areas of assessment, second language acquisition (SLA) and pronunciation and examines topical issues and challenges that relate to formal and informal assessments of second language (L2) speech in classroom, research and real-world contexts....
Variation and Change in Aberdeen English
A Sociophonetic Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
This book is the first major sociophonetic work on the urban accent of Aberdeen in North-East Scotland. The study shows how the accent has changed following the large-scale immigration from other parts of Scotland and the UK since the 1970s. It is rooted in a dialect contact framework and based on...
Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English
Evidence from Educated Indian English and British English
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This book addresses the question whether Educated Indian English is more syllable-timed than British English from two standpoints: production and perception. Many post-colonial varieties of English, which are mostly spoken as a second language in countries such as India, Nigeria and the Philippines,...
A Corpus of Formal British English Speech
The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources. The introduction explains fully the transcription conventions, the structure of the corpus and its relationship to other computer corpora, and provides examples of different versions of texts.
Homophones: Sonic Wonders
H Ä M- ? - Fon Hom = Same Phone = Sound
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Homophones: Sonic Wonders presents 197 sets of words which are pronounced the same but have very different meanings. (I say, sets, because some sounds have 3 or even 4 different meanings, though most are pairs of words.) This is most definitely not an exhaustive list. I wrote Homophones: Sonic Wonders because the idea was good and like nothing else I had seen in the library.
The Morphosyntax-Phonology Connection
Locality and Directionality at the Interface
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The essays in this volume address a core question regarding the structure of linguistic systems: how much access do the grammatical components - syntax, morphology and phonology - have to each other? The book's fifteen essays make a powerful argument in favor of a particular view of the interaction...