Author: Dorothy Kathleen Evans-RomainePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Palatalization and Coarticulation in Russian
Author: Dorothy Kathleen Evans-RomainePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Coarticulation
Author: William J. HardcastlePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521440270
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The variation that a speech sound undergoes under the influence of neighbouring sounds has acquired the well-established label coarticulation. The phenomenon of coarticulation has become a central problem in the theory of speech production. Much experimental work has been directed towards discovering its characteristics, its extent and its occurrence across different languages. This book is a major study of coarticulation by a team of international researchers. It provides a definitive account of the experimental findings to date, together with discussions of their implications for modelling the process of speech production. Different components of the speech production system (larynx, tongue, jaw, etc.) require different techniques for investigation and a whole section of this book is devoted to a description of the experimental techniques currently used. Other chapters offer a theoretically sophisticated discussion of the implications of coarticulation for the phonology-phonetics interface.
Optimality Theory and Language Change
Author: D.E. HoltPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401001952
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
This work discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail. It treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/ Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish and shows that the application of Optimality Theory allows for innovative and improved analyses. It contains a complete bibliography on OT and language change. It is of interest to historical linguists, researchers into OT and linguistic theory, and phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change.
Issues in Russian Linguistics
Author: Jacob CaflischPublisher:
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In a series of 49 lessons, this comprehensive book seeks to make students of Russian aware of the nature of the language in terms of its structure. Issues in Russian Linguistics covers concepts in Russian phonology, teaches how to handle phonological data, and offers selected concepts in morphology, with concentration on selected issues of verb paradigms. The book comes complete with a glossary of terms, a bibliography, and an index and is intended for use by both upper-level undergraduate and graduate students whose curriculum requirements incorporate some grammar study or subjects in linguistics.
Linguistik im Nordwesten
Author: Rebecca CarrollPublisher: Brockmeyer Verlag
ISBN: 3819608508
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Voice Quality
Author: John H. EslingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498426
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Offers a new model of vocal tract articulation that explains laryngeal and oral voice quality, both auditorily and visually, through language examples and familiar voices.
Coarticulation and Sound Change in Romance
Author: Daniel RecasensPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027270384
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This volume should be of great interest to phoneticians, phonologists, and both historical and cognitive linguists. Using data from the Romance languages for the most part, the book explores the phonetic motivation of several sound changes, e.g., glide insertions and elisions, vowel and consonant insertions, elisions, assimilations and dissimilations. Within the framework of the DAC (degree of articulatory constraint) model of coarticulation, it clearly demonstrates that the typology and direction of these sound changes may very largely be accounted for by the coarticulatory effects occurring between adjacent or neighbouring phonetic segments, and by the degrees of articulatory constraint imposed by speakers on the production of vowels and consonants. The phonetically-based explanations presented here are formulated on the basis of coarticulation data from speech production and perception research carried out during the last fifty years and are complemented with data on the co-occurrence of phonetic segments in lexical forms of the languages being considered. Attention is also paid to the role that positional and prosodic factors play in sound change implementation, as well as to the cognitive and peripheral strategies involved in segmental replacements, elisions and insertions.
Consonant Harmony
Author: Gunnar Olafur HanssonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520098781
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
A revised version of the author's 2001 doctoral dissertation.
The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics
Author: Rachael-Anne KnightPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108596568
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Phonetics - the study and classification of speech sounds - is a major sub-discipline of linguistics. Bringing together a team of internationally renowned phoneticians, this handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the most recent, cutting-edge work in the field, and focuses on the most widely-debated contemporary issues. Chapters are divided into five thematic areas: segmental production, prosodic production, measuring speech, audition and perception, and applications of phonetics. Each chapter presents an historical overview of the area, along with critical issues, current research and advice on the best practice for teaching phonetics to undergraduates. It brings together global perspectives, and includes examples from a wide range of languages, allowing readers to extend their knowledge beyond English. By providing both state-of-the-art research information, and an appreciation of how it can be shared with students, this handbook is essential both for academic phoneticians, and anyone with an interest in this exciting, rapidly developing field.
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