Download or read book Phonological Variation in French written by Randall Scott Gess and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical, social, and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language use. Each chapter is based on original surveys conducted within the framework of the Phonology of Contemporary French project, described in the Introduction. These surveys constitute an invaluable source of new data for researchers, as many of the varieties included are otherwise undocumented in any systematic way. The chapters follow a similar format: presentation of the survey(s) and the sociolinguistic dimensions of the variety studied; description of the phonological inventory of the system(s), principal allophonic realizations, phonotactic constraints, behavior of schwa, behavior of liaison consonants, and other notable characteristics. The book opens with an informative introduction and closes with a chapter providing a synthesis of the major findings by continent.

Download or read book French prosodics and phonotactics written by Jürgen Klausenburger and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each collected volume should be as uniform as possible in its contents and in the choice of languages.

Download or read book Prosody and Syntax written by Yuji Kawaguchi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers is the third volume of the series “Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics” (UBLI), a product of the 21st Century COE Program of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). Prosody, as used in this text, appears in units larger than segments and generally refers to the field that studies various phonological properties connected to utterances involving pitch, intensity, and length. These phonetic features almost always appear within complex combinations such as word and sentence accents and intonation. The subtitle, Cross-Linguistic perspectives, does not imply mere, cross-linguistic comparison and contrast of the prosodic phenomena. Rather, it implies that there are a variety of approaches which are unique to each language for prosodic analysis. In fact, the volume consists of prosodic analyses in 12 different languages : French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Makonde, Indonesian, Tagalog and Turkish.

Download or read book Prosody and Language in Contact written by Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides new insights into various issues on prosody in contact situations, contact referring here to the L2 acquisition process as well as to situations where two language systems may co-exist. A wide array of phenomena are dealt with (prosodic description of linguistic systems in contact situations, analysis of prosodic changes, language development processes, etc.), and the results obtained may give an indication of what is more or less stable in phonological and prosodic systems. In addition, the selected papers clearly show how languages may have influenced or may have been influenced by other language varieties (in multilingual situations where different languages are in constant contact with one another, but also in the process of L2 acquisition). Unlike previous volumes on related topics, which focus in general either on L2 acquisition or on the description and analyses of different varieties of a given language, this volume considers both topics in parallel, allowing comparison and discussion of the results, which may shed new light on more far-reaching theoretical questions such as the role of markedness in prosody and the causes of prosodic changes.

Download or read book Prosodic Categories Production Perception and Comprehension written by Sónia Frota and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located at the intersection of phonology, psycholinguistics and phonetics, this volume offers the latest research findings in key areas of prosodic theory, including: •The relationship between intonation and pragmatics in speech production •Sentence modality prosody characterization •The role of pitch in quantity-based sound systems •Consonant-conditioned tone depression phonology across languages •The encoding of intonational contrasts in both intonational and tonal languages Featuring new data and ground-breaking results, the papers draw on empirical approaches that analyze production, perception and comprehension experiments such as the prepared speech paradigm and semantic scaling tasks. These are discussed in a variety of languages, some underrepresented in the literature (such as French and Estonian) while others, such as Shekgalagari, are examined in this way for the first time. This collection of cutting-edge material will be of interest to a broad range of language researchers.

Download or read book Language Music and the Brain written by Michael A. Arbib and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A presentation of music and language within an integrative, embodied perspective of brain mechanisms for action, emotion, and social coordination. This book explores the relationships between language, music, and the brain by pursuing four key themes and the crosstalk among them: song and dance as a bridge between music and language; multiple levels of structure from brain to behavior to culture; the semantics of internal and external worlds and the role of emotion; and the evolution and development of language. The book offers specially commissioned expositions of current research accessible both to experts across disciplines and to non-experts. These chapters provide the background for reports by groups of specialists that chart current controversies and future directions of research on each theme. The book looks beyond mere auditory experience, probing the embodiment that links speech to gesture and music to dance. The study of the brains of monkeys and songbirds illuminates hypotheses on the evolution of brain mechanisms that support music and language, while the study of infants calibrates the developmental timetable of their capacities. The result is a unique book that will interest any reader seeking to learn more about language or music and will appeal especially to readers intrigued by the relationships of language and music with each other and with the brain. Contributors Francisco Aboitiz, Michael A. Arbib, Annabel J. Cohen, Ian Cross, Peter Ford Dominey, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Leonardo Fogassi, Jonathan Fritz, Thomas Fritz, Peter Hagoort, John Halle, Henkjan Honing, Atsushi Iriki, Petr Janata, Erich Jarvis, Stefan Koelsch, Gina Kuperberg, D. Robert Ladd, Fred Lerdahl, Stephen C. Levinson, Jerome Lewis, Katja Liebal, Jônatas Manzolli, Bjorn Merker, Lawrence M. Parsons, Aniruddh D. Patel, Isabelle Peretz, David Poeppel, Josef P. Rauschecker, Nikki Rickard, Klaus Scherer, Gottfried Schlaug, Uwe Seifert, Mark Steedman, Dietrich Stout, Francesca Stregapede, Sharon Thompson-Schill, Laurel Trainor, Sandra E. Trehub, Paul Verschure

Download or read book The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody written by Sun-Ah Jun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. This book examines the phonetics and phonology of Korean prosody. Based on phonetic experiments, it proposes intonationally marked prosodic constituents above the word which condition various connected speech phenomena. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

Download or read book Phonological Projection written by Marc van Oostendorp and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody written by Carlos Gussenhoven and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.

Download or read book A Manual of French Prosody written by Arthur Henry Gosset and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... ON SOME MISCELLANEOUS POINTS OF PRONUNCIATION, DICTION, AND STYLE. ONE of the difficulties in the way of an Englishman's appreciating French poetry is the treatment of words and names from his own and other accented languages. Words from German, English, Italian, Latin, Greek, or Hebrew, if pronounced with the proper accent, are essentially incompatible with French in a way that they are not with other languages. Accordingly, they are in French verse deprived of the tonic accent, and pronounced as far as possible as if they were French words of similar spelling, except that final consonants are usually sounded. Thus, since ei in peine --a. short open e, ei in Heine is pronounced in the same way. The au in Faust is treated as 3, and so is the o in lost. and accordingly these words can rhyme. Tom, qu'un abandon scandalise, Recite Love's Labour Lost; Et Fritz explique a Cydalise Le Walpurgisnichtstraum de Faust. Th. Gautier, Emaux et Camies. The e mute of English, which is now a mere typographical sign, and the atonic final e of German, which is more of a syllable than the French e mute, are both assimilated entirely to e mute. Thus Love's is a dissyllable in the stanza just quoted, and Gladstone counts as three syllables in the following couplet: -- Personne pour toi. Tous sont d'accord. Celui-ci, Nomme Gladstone, dit a tes bourreaux: Merci. V. Hugo, VAnnee Terrible. In Latin, short e counts as e, um as omm, and the vowels are generally nasalized before n, as in the ordinary French school-boy pronunciation. One result of the removal of the tonic accent is, that final syllables, which would be quite atonic in their own language, are made to bear the caesura and rhyme. Baudelaire even goes so far as to write rhymes in...

Download or read book Speech Prosody from Acoustics to Interpretation written by Daniel Hirst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the author’s personal overview of Speech Prosody, and in particular the different areas in which he has been especially interested over the last few decades. These include the acoustics of speech prosody, the relationship between lexical and non-lexical prosody, the phonology of prosody, the modeling of rhythm and of melody, and the central question of the various and at times quite mysterious ways in which prosody contributes to the interpretation of an utterance. All these aspects are then brought together in an account of the description of intonation systems, and how these differ across languages.

Download or read book French Syntax written by James A. Harrison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Syntax: A Critical Study of the French Language, on the Basis of Edouard Matzner; Including French Phonology, Etymology, Historical Grammar, Prosody, and Irregular Verbs It is believed in fact that the present work is the most complete and encyclopedic in its special subject that has been published in the English language. The effort has been made to adapt it not only to the use of schools and colleges, but to teachers, home-studen ts, and other inquirers into the niceties of the most polished of European lan guages, and to enable them to find out without trouble what is allowed and what is not in that language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology written by Paul de Lacy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonology - the study of how the sounds of speech are represented in our minds - is one of the core areas of linguistic theory, and is central to the study of human language. This handbook brings together the world's leading experts in phonology to present the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the field. Focusing on research and the most influential theories, the authors discuss each of the central issues in phonological theory, explore a variety of empirical phenomena, and show how phonology interacts with other aspects of language such as syntax, morphology, phonetics, and language acquisition. Providing a one-stop guide to every aspect of this important field, The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology will serve as an invaluable source of readings for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, an informative overview for linguists and a useful starting point for anyone beginning phonological research.

Download or read book French Sound Structure written by Douglas C. Walker and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, detailed, and well-illustrated undergraduate French language/linguistics textbook with CD-ROM. The book focuses on pronunciation of Modern Standard French, and incorporates regional and social variations, abbreviatory processes and 'word play'. It looks at historical phonological changes which continue through today. Perfect for readers and learners with little or no formal training in linguistics. The CD-ROM provides invaluable oral examples crucial to linguistic study.

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Download or read book A Manual of French Prosody written by Arthur Gosset and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE month of September is far from being a harvest month with English printing-presses, but it is even more of a dead season with French publishers. We have to-day to notice nothing but school-books, and most of those English. In the first lace and most closely connected with literature, may be notice Mr. Gosset's Manual of French Prosody, a very good book in itself, and one to be the more welcomed that it comes from a Fellow of New College, Oxford. For whatever the educational advantages or disadvantages of "the modern side" maybe, the advantages at least will never be fully experienced till the studies of the modern side are made in the full sense liberal and academic. Mr. Gosset justly says that the way in which English boys and English men are for the most part supposed to know French versification by the light of nature is "singular," and if he had chosen he might have given instances of the still more singular results of the supposition. In one of the foremost magazines for this month there is a parcel-French poem, signed with initials which appear to indicate a well-known and learned Professor, and containing lines which the writer evidently supposes to be of the value of eight syllables each. These, according to French prosody, vacillate cheerfully between seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and, if we mistake not, in one instance, twelve, actual syllabic integers, owing apparently to sheer ignorance on the writer's part of the value of the mute e and of the law of elision. Such an absurdity could never be committed by anyone who had even glanced through Mr. Gosset's very useful little book, which is equally suited for schools and for the reference shelf of the library. On his strict subject he is generally sound, but we must not be understood as pledging ourselves to his general theories in prosody, and especially in English Prosody. For instance, we are entirely at issue with him on e point that "French verse is superior to English in the purity of its assonances," unless he means that good French verse is superior to bad English verse on this point, which is true, but unimportant. From Mr. Gosset's remark that the vowel sound in "Geneva" and "believer" is the same, and that "'Genevah' is an undoubted cockneyism" (the truth being that "believah" is the cockneyism), we can only suppose that he is himself inclined to a most culpable laxity in English rhyme. Of course to any one so disposed French rules must seem stricter. But those of us who would as soon think of rhyming" Geneva" to " believer" in English as of rhyming "croitre' to "maitre" in modern French can hardly admit that to a good English. The truth is, however, that really good renunciation of English is getting yearly rarer, and that the folly of spelling reformers, who try to reduce everything to rule, helps the errors of those who have been unlucky enough not to have their ears educated by surroundings of careful speech and their eyes by the study of good books. This, however, is a digression, and the slight censure implied in it must not be understood to detract from our general recommendation of Mr. Gosset as a teacher in his own subject.... -The Saturday Review