Author: Justin Watkins
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
ISBN:
Category : Pacific Area
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Phonetics of Wa
Author: Justin Watkins
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
ISBN:
Category : Pacific Area
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
ISBN:
Category : Pacific Area
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Phonetics of Wa
Author: Justin Watkins
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
ISBN:
Category : Pacific Area
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
ISBN:
Category : Pacific Area
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Phonetics of Wa
Author: Justin William Watkins
Publisher:
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Category : Mon-Khmer languages
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Mon-Khmer languages
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Phonetics of Arabic
Author: William Henry Temple Gairdner
Publisher:
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Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Phonetics of French Pronunciation
Author: I. M. G. Ahern
Publisher:
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Publisher:
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Phonetics and Phonology of Contrast
Author: Margaret E. L. Renwick
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110394766
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This book proposes that phonological contrast, in particular the robustness of a phonemic contrast, does not depend solely on the presence of minimal pairs, but is instead affected by a set of phonetic, usage-based, and systemic factors. This perspective opens phonology to a more direct interpretation through phonetic analysis, undertaken in a series of case studies on the Romanian vowel system. Both the synchronic phonetics and morpho-phonological alternations are studied, to understand the forces that have historically shaped and now maintain the phonemic system of Romanian. A corpus study of phoneme type frequency in Romanian reveals marginal contrasts among vowels, in which a sharp distinction between allophones and phonemes fails to capture relationships among sounds. An investigation of Romanian /Ɨ/ provides insight into the historical roots of marginal contrast, and a large acoustic study of Romanian vowels and diphthongs is a backdrop for evaluating the phonetic and perceptual realization of marginal contrast. The results provide impetus for a model in which phonology, phonetics, morphology and perception interact in a multidimensional way.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110394766
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This book proposes that phonological contrast, in particular the robustness of a phonemic contrast, does not depend solely on the presence of minimal pairs, but is instead affected by a set of phonetic, usage-based, and systemic factors. This perspective opens phonology to a more direct interpretation through phonetic analysis, undertaken in a series of case studies on the Romanian vowel system. Both the synchronic phonetics and morpho-phonological alternations are studied, to understand the forces that have historically shaped and now maintain the phonemic system of Romanian. A corpus study of phoneme type frequency in Romanian reveals marginal contrasts among vowels, in which a sharp distinction between allophones and phonemes fails to capture relationships among sounds. An investigation of Romanian /Ɨ/ provides insight into the historical roots of marginal contrast, and a large acoustic study of Romanian vowels and diphthongs is a backdrop for evaluating the phonetic and perceptual realization of marginal contrast. The results provide impetus for a model in which phonology, phonetics, morphology and perception interact in a multidimensional way.
A Handbook of French Phonetics
Author: William Albert Nitze
Publisher:
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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The Phonetics and Phonology of Retroflexes
Author: Silke Hamann
Publisher:
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Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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The Phonology of Romanian
Author: Ioana Chitoran
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110889188
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book provides the first systematic descriptive analysis of the phonological system of Romanian, one of the less studied Romance languages, from the perspective of recent phonological theory. The author offers an account of some of the major phonological processes of modern standard Romanian, set in the framework of Optimality Theory and Correspondence Theory. The book begins with an overview of Romanian phonology - segment inventory, phonotactics, inflectional and derivational morphology. The main part of the study focuses on processes involving vocalic segments: glide-vowel and diphthong-vowel alternations, vowel harmony, palatalization. The major issues addressed include feature theory, syllable structure, metrical structure and stress, the interaction between phonology and morphology. Acoustic phonetic data is used as supporting evidence for the phonological patterning of diphthongs and glide-vowel sequences. Interesting complexities of the system are pointed out and discussed, as they pose certain challenges to the theoretical model. The book contains an abundance of systematically organized data, which makes it a solid reference for students and scholars of general and Romance phonology, and a strong basis for further study.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110889188
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book provides the first systematic descriptive analysis of the phonological system of Romanian, one of the less studied Romance languages, from the perspective of recent phonological theory. The author offers an account of some of the major phonological processes of modern standard Romanian, set in the framework of Optimality Theory and Correspondence Theory. The book begins with an overview of Romanian phonology - segment inventory, phonotactics, inflectional and derivational morphology. The main part of the study focuses on processes involving vocalic segments: glide-vowel and diphthong-vowel alternations, vowel harmony, palatalization. The major issues addressed include feature theory, syllable structure, metrical structure and stress, the interaction between phonology and morphology. Acoustic phonetic data is used as supporting evidence for the phonological patterning of diphthongs and glide-vowel sequences. Interesting complexities of the system are pointed out and discussed, as they pose certain challenges to the theoretical model. The book contains an abundance of systematically organized data, which makes it a solid reference for students and scholars of general and Romance phonology, and a strong basis for further study.
The Phonetics of Fingerspelling
Author: Sherman Wilcox
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027243344
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
We now know that natural signed languages such as American Sign Language, French Sign Language, British Sign Language and others are fully independent languages. But natural signed languages are only one way of conveying language in the visual/gestural modality. Signed languages also have mechanisms for representing the material of oral languages. Fingerspelling is one example of such a representational system. This book examines fingerspelling from a phonetic perspective. Several studies of the kinematics of fingerspelling articulators are reported. From these detailed analyses of articulator timings and velocities, conclusions are drawn which suggest that, like speech, fingerspelling may be explained in terms of coordinative structures and task dynamics. The thrust of the book is to explore the notion that signed and spoken languages can be compared not only as abstract linguistic systems but also at the physical level as dynamically structured articulations. An implication of these studies is that a common basis in gesture can be found for the production, perception, and neural organization of signed and spoken languages.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027243344
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
We now know that natural signed languages such as American Sign Language, French Sign Language, British Sign Language and others are fully independent languages. But natural signed languages are only one way of conveying language in the visual/gestural modality. Signed languages also have mechanisms for representing the material of oral languages. Fingerspelling is one example of such a representational system. This book examines fingerspelling from a phonetic perspective. Several studies of the kinematics of fingerspelling articulators are reported. From these detailed analyses of articulator timings and velocities, conclusions are drawn which suggest that, like speech, fingerspelling may be explained in terms of coordinative structures and task dynamics. The thrust of the book is to explore the notion that signed and spoken languages can be compared not only as abstract linguistic systems but also at the physical level as dynamically structured articulations. An implication of these studies is that a common basis in gesture can be found for the production, perception, and neural organization of signed and spoken languages.