Phonetics Phonics category: 210 books

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Routledge Revivals presents a reissue of Noam Chomksy’s MA thesis, written in 1951, and first published in 1979. Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew is a landmark study in linguistics and generative phonology, which provides not only an analysis of morphophonemics but of the entire grammar of Modern...

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period. It offers an in-depth study of the growth of vocabulary through literature and social interaction, bringing out the fact that it is chiefly words that foreign...

Code-switching – the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a bilingual speaker – is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that generates a great deal of pointed discussion in the public domain. This handbook provides the most comprehensive...

This volume showcases recent sociolinguistic research about Wales and offers contributions from scholars working on Welsh, English and other languages spoken in the country. The chapters present a range of frameworks and methodologies used in sociolinguistics and apply them to the Welsh linguistic...

This book provides a fascinating account of the psycholinguistic and social factors behind variation in speech timing in US English. With detailed discussions of its methods and data, it also acts as a valuable model for conducting corpus (socio)phonetic research.

Accessible, succinct, and including numerous student-friendly features, this introductory textbook offers an exceptional foundation to the field for those who are coming to it for the first time. Provides an ideal first course book in phonology, written by a renowned phonologist Developed...

Speech Sounds: * helps develop the fundamental skills of the phonetician * investigates the various aspects involved in the production of speech sounds * uses data-based material to reinforce each new concept * includes examples from a wide range of languages * provides...

This sight word list includes 52 Kindergarten level sight words and 20 sight nouns.  Sight words can be known by many names including  High-frequency words, Dolch words, Fry words, Instant words and Star words. To make it easy and fun to practice reading with your child these flash...

This book deals with the expression of emotions in Igala – a Nigerian minority language with about two million speakers – from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The author investigates the network of the Igala language of emotions using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework as developed...

These sight word flash cards include 50 Pre-School (or Pre-Primer) sight words.  Sight words can be known by many names including high-frequency words, Dolch words, Fry words, instant words or even Star words.  This list includes 40 of the most common sight words, plus 10 common sight nouns....

Uno degli ostacoli maggiori nell'approcciarsi alla lingua Inglese è il fatto di dover pronunciare suoni spesso distanti - se non addirittura assenti - nella fonetica della nostra lingua madre. Purtroppo non ci sono regole ferree per imparare la pronuncia dell'Inglese. In questo ebook analizzeremo...

I have often been frustrated and amused by natives who want to be understood only by the collusive, other natives and thus resort to the use of esoteric expressions the meanings of which are only privy to their people or even group. The most enduring manner to memorialize the truth is to render the...

The only rhyming helper in existence that takes into account the use of one or more words to form a rhyme, pronunciation differences and includes cross-references, and suggestions.  Listed alphabetically according to how the word sounds (phonetically) as opposed to how it is spelt.  An ideal...