Author: Rev. James ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Original Rhythmical Grammar of the English Language
Author: Rev. James ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Original Rhythmical Grammar of the English Language
Author: James ChapmanEnglish Speech Rhythm
Author: Elizabeth Couper-KuhlenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027285837
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt-like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organization. Then in a large-scale study of a corpus of British and American radio phone-in programs and family table conversations, the function of speech rhythm at turn transitions is investigated. It is argued that speech rhythm serves as a metric for the timing of turn transitions in casual English conversation. The articular rhythmic configuration of a transition can be said to contextualize the next turn as, generally speaking, affiliative or disaffiliative with the prior turn. The empirical investigation suggests that speech rhythm patterns at turn transitions in everyday English conversation are not random occurrences or the result of a social-psychological adaptation process but are contextualization cues which figure systematically in the creation and interpretation of linguistic meaning in communication.
English Metrists
Author: Thomas Stewart OmondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
English Metrists in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Author: Thomas Stewart OmondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An Annotated Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English
Author: Manfred GörlachPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027283885
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
In the 19th century, education became accessible to much wider circles of society in a great number and variety of schools and the teaching of grammar came to be obligatory from 1870/72 with the advent of general education. Whereas these general trends of the 19th century are well-known to scholars working in different disciplines of social history, and the history of education in particular, it is still true that major sections of the evidence are largely uncollected. This is especially so for school books: there is virtually a gap between the 18th century and the present grammatical tradition. This bibliography lists some 1930 works on English grammar published in the 19th century, mainly in Britain and the US, half of which are accompanied by short descriptions of their physical make-up, content and affiliation.
New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register
Author: A Catalogue of Books, Ancient & Modern in Various Languages, ...
Author: John SalkeldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
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