Phonetics, Phonology

Parkinsons Disease affects not only gross motor but also speech motor control. Standard treatment options are drug treatment with levodopa and surg...

The Germanic language family ranges from national languages with standardized varieties, including German, Dutch and Danish, to minority languages ...

In Ancient Egyptian Phonology. James Allen studies the sounds of the language spoken by the ancient Egyptians through application of the most recen...

Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here,...

This path-breaking study of the standardisation of English goes well beyond the traditional prescriptivism versus descriptivism debate. It argues t...

Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here,...

Using an innovative approach, this book focuses on a widely debated area of phonetics and phonology: intonation, and specifically its relation to m...

Oscan was spoken in Southern Italy in the second half of the first millennium BC. Here, for the first time, all the evidence for the spelling of Os...

This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects ...

'Uptalk' is commonly used to refer to rising intonation at the end of declarative sentences, or (to put it more simply) the tendency for people to ...

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Prima...

This workbook includes easy-to-use phoneme study cards, which help students learn the symbol/sound association using the IPA, clear diagrams illust...

The second edition of An Introduction to Literary Chinese incorporates recent developments in linguistics and has been expanded to include a lesson...