Contains eight papers that cover the areas of field-work, dialectology, and synchronic studies of segmental and tonal systems of the Chinese language family. These papers are related to the theoretical issues in: the SPE Model; Lexical Phonology and Morphology; Autosegmental Phonology; Metrical Phonology; and Optimality Theory.
This textbook introduces undergraduates to the basic tools and concepts necessary for the outline description of English phonological systems and processes.
Since the publication of the first edition in 1964, Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias has served singers, teachers of singing, and students of lyric diction as a guide to the correct pronunciation of songs in foreign languages.
This book provides a clear and accessible evaluation of generative phonology, an area which has produced both rival interpretations and models to account for it. It presents a detailed overview of the main models, revealing that they are often complimentary rather than contradictory, and how these can interconnect and be used together to explore the subject.
This volume is an introduction to the linguistic structure of the French language. It illustrates the different ways to approaching and explaining issues of interest in French linguistics and looks at how the language is structured and varies depending on gender, medium, register, age etc. The earlier sections describe the basic 'facts' about phonology, phonetics, morphosyntax, the lexicon and semantics. Discussion of problematic issues, with contrasting different approaches to these issues...
This volume is not the product of direct field-work but a gathering together, a sifting and an analysis of all the material available - whether previously collected by collectors of Romani song, or preserved whole or in fragments within literary or other texts.
This volume provides a survey of the principal features of segmental phonology in the dialects of Welsh, and includes some morphophonology and morphology. It presents the data of five years of extensive fieldwork and contains 700 pages of data sets and appendices.
Offers an explanation of the process of speech production, from the anatomical initiation of sounds and their modification in the larynx, through to the final articulation of vowels and consonants in the oral and nasal tracts. This book gives an account of segmental and suprasegmental aspects of speech.
The essays in this volume explore the educational implications of unsettling shifts in politics, economics, popular culture, and social theory associated with postmodernism. These shifts, the authors
This series is devoted to topics which are central to the theoretical debates which underpin the subject of morphology. This particular volume examines the ways in which morphological features can be expressed in the grammar of natural languages, both by morphological and syntactic devices.