Phonetics, Phonology

Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and ...

This textbooks introduces the main arguments for an innate, domain specific capacity to learn human language. It guides you through the growth of l...

A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, ...

This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on ...

Ce recueil d''articles regroupe une selection des communications presentees au colloque international et pluridisciplinaire tenu a Oxford en janvie...

This volume presents a series of original papers focusing on the theme of phonological argumentation, set within the framework of Optimality Theory...

The processes of gemination, lenition, and vowel lengthening are central to the study of phonology, as they reveal much about the treatment of quan...

This title charts the historical development of the English phonological system. Phonological evolution is a major component of the overall history...

This volume brings together the eight papers presented by a panel on Arabic linguistics organized on the occasion of the 14th Italian Meeting of Af...

This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with s...

The word prosody of Tokyo Japanese is often labeled as pitch accent, and is characterized by a steep fall in F0 from the accented mora into the fol...

The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages is the most exhaustive treatment of the Romance languages available today. Leading international scholars...

This introduction to Medieval Spanish, or Old Spanish, closes a long-standing gap in the literature. Focusing on the internal history of the Spanis...

Warren Maguire examines Mid-Ulster English as a key case of new dialect formation, considering the roles of language shift and dialect contact in i...

Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Set...

This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on Lexical Functional Grammar. The authors provide detailed and extensive coverage of ...

This volume explores several recurring topics in Romance phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the segment, syllable, word, and phrase l...

According to a leading cognitive scientist, we've been teaching reading wrong. The latest science reveals how we can do it right.In 2011, when an i...

Phonology is a sub-discipline of linguistics that describes the way sounds function within a given language, or across languages. It can be quite a...

This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to...

Sociophonetics - the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics - is a field that has expanded rapidly in recent years. A subject that requires bo...

This book focuses on an increasingly attractive, yet controversial topic of non-native accentedness in speech. The contributors here are aware of t...

Barbarino''s orthographic study is a quantitative and comparative analysis of the alternation of B and V in Latin inscriptions. His data is drawn f...

What roles do the speaker and the listener play in communication processes? Providing an overall system view, this innovative textbook explains how...

Stress and accent are central, organizing features of grammar, but their precise nature continues to be a source of mystery and wonder. These issue...

The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thou...