Download or read book Studies in the Pronunciation of English written by Susan Ramsaran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, this collection celebrates the life and work of Professor A. C. Gimson, four years after his untimely death in 1985. A. C. Gimson, Professor of Phonetics at University College London, 1966-83, was the most distinguished and influential phonetician of his day concentrating specifically on English speech. This collection of essays on phonetics and phonology of English- written by linguists from all over the world – celebrates his life and work. The work is divided into five sections: prosody; phonology and phonetic description; accents of English and RP; other accents of English (focusing on those non-native speakers); and phonostylistics. The twenty-eight chapters cover a very wide range of topics and the contributors offer a stimulating variety of approaches, with the emphasis on data-based objectivity. Balancing description and theory with application, this volume provides a serious and coherent contribution to the academic study of English pronunciation.
Download or read book Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary written by Daniel Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of the classic work by Daniel Jones includes up-to-date entries and new study pages.
Download or read book A Singer s Manual of Foreign Language Dictions written by Richard Fort Sheil and published by YBK Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precise guides forlearning to sing in French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Roman Church Latin. No foreign Language expereince necessary
Download or read book English Lexicology written by Leonhard Lipka and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2002 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Headhood Elements Specification and Contrastivity written by Philip Carr and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03-18 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume focus on notions which are central to the work of John M. Anderson – the founder of Dependency Phonology – and to phonological theory: the idea of structural analogy between phonology and syntax; the head/dependent relation; the idea that phonological representations are best conceived of in terms of a set of privative elements (rather than as binary-valued features); and the related notions of contrastivity and specification (and non-specification). An important issue dealt with is the relationship between specification and derivationality, and the question whether derivations are necessary in phonological theory. Many of the contributions provide sound empirical support for the appeal to elements and to headhood at all levels of phonological analysis. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in current issues in phonological theory.
Download or read book Phonology written by Charles W. Kreidler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonology: Critical Concepts, the first such anthology to appear in thirty years and the largest ever published, brings together over a hundred previously published book chapters and articles from professional journals. These have been chosen for their importance in the exploration of theoretical questions, with some preference for essays that are not easily accessible.Divided into sections, each part is preceded by a brief introduction which aims to point out the problems addressed by the various articles and show their relations to one another.-
Download or read book Communication Therapy written by Scott J. Bally and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information presented in this book is excellent. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and practicing professionals.
Download or read book Current Approaches to African Linguistics Vol 7 written by John P. Hutchison and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigating English Pronunciation written by Jose A. Mompean and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book updates the latest research in the field of 'English pronunciation', providing readers with a number of original contributions that represent trends in the field. Topics include sociophonetic or sound-symbolic aspects of pronunciation English pronunciation teaching and learning.
Download or read book Proceedings of the 9th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics written by Stanford Linguistics Association and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1991 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the papers presented at the 1990 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics are included in this volume. This annual publication, not readily available in the past, makes the latest research in formal linguistics available to a wider audience. Aaron Halpern is a graduate student in linguistics at Stanford University.
Download or read book Generative and Non Linear Phonology written by Durand Jacques and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generative phonology is a developing field of linguistics, and is producing both rival interpretations and models. This book provides a clear and accessible evaluation of the debate. It provides a detailed overview of the main models, revealing that they are often complimentary rather than contradictory, and how these can be interconnect and be used together to explore the subject.
Download or read book Dictionary of Lexicography written by R. R. K. Hartmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionaries are among the most frequently consulted books, yet we know remarkably little about them. Who makes them? Where do they come from? What do they offer? How can we evaluate them? The Dictionary of Lexicography provides answers to all these questions and addresses a wide range of issues: * the traditions of dictionary-making * the different types of dictionaries and other reference works (such as thesaurus, encyclopedia, atlas and telephone directory) * the principles and concerns of lexicographers and other reference professionals * the standards of dictionary criticism and dictionary use. It is both a professional handbook and an easy-to-use reference work. This is the first time that the subject has been covered in such a comprehensive manner in the form of a reference book. All articles are self-contained, cross-referenced and uniformly structured. The whole is an up-to-date and forward-looking survey of lexicography.
Download or read book English Phonology written by Heinz J. Giegerich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the phonology of present-day English offers a systematic and detailed discussion of the features shared by three varieties of English: "General American," Southern British "Received Pronunciation" and "Scottish Standard English".
Download or read book Problems in Scottish English Phonology written by Tatiana Ewa Kamin¦ska and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an account of phonological data related to the study of sonorants in Scottish Standard English (SSE), as compared with Received Pronunciation (RP). These data are analysed and interpreted within the theoretical framework of 'Lexical Phonology' and according to recent non-linear, three-dimensional theories of phonological representation. The basic tenets of 'Lexical Phonology' as well as those of 'Three-Dimensional Phonology' (with particular reference to its application to syllable structure) are explained in chapter 1. In the same chaper, the distinction between Standard English spoken with a Scottish accent (SSE) and Scots, the traditional dialect spoken in southern, eastern and north-eastern Scotland is discussed. The presentation of the theoretical paradigms in question as tested against the linguistic material of SSE is organized around the issues of vowel length and the phonological processes pertaining to the sound [r]. More specifically, the analyses focuses on two lengthening processes operating in SSE, namely the 'Scottish Vowel Lengthening Rule' also referred to as 'Aitken's Law' (chaper 2), and the 'Allophonic Lengthening Rule', a phenomenon universal to accents of English (chapter 3). It is claimed that the former is an accent-specific lexicalization of the latter. Proposals concerning the phonological interpretation of [r]-related phenomena in both non-rhotic and rhotic accents are examined in chapters 4 and 5. In particular, various ways of accounting for the distribution of [r] in the pronunciation of non-rhotic accents (as exemplified by RP) are looked at and on the basis of evidence from rhotic accents (esp. SSE) an interpretation based on a gradient rule of [r]-weakening is proposed. Finally, Kaminska evaluates the success of the lexical framework in accounting for the data from SSE and RP investigated in the present study.
Download or read book The History of Lexicography written by Reinhard Hartmann and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most dictionaries have forerunners, and all have imitators; an understanding of the historical foundations of dictionary-making is therefore one of the preconditions of further progress in academic lexicography. The papers in this volume, which were presented at the 1986 Exeter Seminar, survey most of the lexicographical traditions in the world, some tracing them right back to their beginnings. The programme was divided into eight sessions, with the following concentrations of topics: (1) three classical traditions, (2) the early history of European lexicography, (3) the beginnings of English lexicography, (4) further aspects of English lexicography, (5) the background of diverse national developments, (6) specific features of national developments, (7) pioneers of three genres, (8) recent trends in the English dictionary.
Download or read book Accents of English Volume 1 written by John C. Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-04-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of how English is pronounced by different people in different places. It provides an integrated and unified framework for existing scholarly treatments of regional forms of speech and makes many original contributions to the field.
Download or read book Standard English in the United States and England written by Aleksandr Davidovich Shveĭt︠s︡er and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1978 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Standard English in the United States and England".
