The English Pronunciation and Speech Training Manual.

An original account of both the logic and history of contrast in phonology.

With introductory chapters that present a general overview and a detailed discussion of the linguistic typology of Iranian, this title provides the reader with non-technical descriptions of a range of Iranian languages. It is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language.

A uniquely focused collection addressing the identification, functional properties, and broader consequences of phonological weakness over a broad chronological range, from Old to Present-Day English and its varieties, enriching the phonological literature with fresh empirical findings from a variety of sources.

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.

This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources. The introduction explains fully the transcription conventions, the structure of the corpus and its relationship to other computer corpora, and provides examples of different versions of texts.

An introduction to phonetics and speech sciences. The first chapters introduce basic acoustics, audition, signal processing, and the acoustic theory of speech production. The book then surveys the major classes of sounds, describing them acoustically, auditorily, and perceptually.

Designed as a text for use on courses in English phonology, this book should be useful to anyone interested in recent developments in phonological theory. The author analyzes a range of pronunication variables in English which offer insights into the limits of phonological variation.

This volume concerns the nature, status, and acquisition of phonological knowledge, and its place in, or relation to, the theory of language and other capacities of mind. The contributions address a range of interrelated issues: for example, whether phonology is 'different' from the rest of language; the implications of sign language; and more.

Comprehensive textbook on phonetics, with examples from over 500 languages.

Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, Sixth Edition .

Offers a comprehensive introduction to phonetics and phonology. This title focuses on articulatory and acoustic phonetics as well as to the foundations of phonological analysis. It features a number of changes, incorporating material on the findings in speech production studies; coverage of prosody; and, coverage of phonology.

This handbook brings together chapters on the biological foundations of speech and hearing such as brain functions underlying speech, organic variation of the vocal apparatus, auditory neural processing, articulatory processes together with chapters on theoretical and applied areas.

This text is aimed at introductory level students of English phonetics and phonology. Topics covered include the phoneme, the syllable, the foot, English word stress, accents of English, and English intonation. Each chapter has exercises, designed to help the student apply the concepts introduced.

Reflects the terms in the linguistics and phonetics.

This accessible textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonetics, the study of speech.

Addresses foundational questions in phonology that cut across different schools of thought within the discipline. This book demonstrates the benefits of the modular approach to phonology, either investigating interactions among distinct modules or developing specific aspects of representation within a particular module.

The reconstruction of the prosody of a dead language is, on the face of it, an almost impossible undertaking. However, once a general theory of prosody has been developed from eliable data in living languages, it is possible to exploit texts as sources of answers to questions that would normally be answered in the laboratory. In this work, the authors interpret the evidence of Greek verse texts .