Phonetics, Phonology

The BBC's Advisory Committee on Spoken English was set up to provide an authoritative guide to pronunciation and the use of language for BBC announ...

An entertaining, informative, and elegantly designed guide that makes understanding punctuation marks and symbols simple and fun. ...

Un petit homme seul arpente les fictions de Jean Muno (1924-1988) depuis sa piece radiophonique eponyme. Sous son apparence d''anti-heros, plus...

Cet ouvrage presente les resultats d''un projet de recherche dans le domaine de l''histoire du francais en Espagne qui analyse l''enseignement de l...

Based on 30 years of research, this book presents a theory about the 'speech sounds' that occur in human spoken and signed languages. Identifying t...

This volume is a collection of advanced laboratory phonology research papers concerned with the interaction between the physical and the mental asp...

Intonation units have been notoriously difficult to identify in natural talk. Problems include fuzzy boundaries, lack of exhaustivity, and the pote...

The papers in this tightly focused collection all report recent research on aspects of rendaku (sequential voicing), the well-known m...

We are fascinated by what words sound like. This fascination also drives us to search for meaning in sound - thereby contradicting the principle of...

Some people say scohn, while others say schown.He says bath, while she says bahth.You say potayto. I say potahtoAnd--wait a second, no one says pot...

This is an experimental phonetic investigation into the vowel duration system of Civili, an indigenous language spoken in Gabon and some of its nei...

This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language var...