The Initiation Of Sound Change

Author : Maria-Josep Solé,Daniel Recasens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273666

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The Initiation of Sound Change by Maria-Josep Solé,Daniel Recasens Pdf

The origins of sound change is one of the oldest and most challenging questions in the study of language. The goal of this volume is to examine current approaches to sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech perception mechanisms and neurobiological processes, geographical and social variation, and diachronic phonology. This diversity of perspectives contributes to a fruitful cross-fertilization across disciplines and represents an attempt to formulate converging ideas on the factors that lead to sound change. This book is addressed to scholars in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, and phonology as well as to researchers in speech production and perception, cognition and modeling. Given the theoretical and methodological interest of the contributions as well as the novel instrumental techniques applied to the study of sound change, this volume will interest professionals teaching language typology, laboratory phonology, sound change, phonetics and phonological theory at the graduate level.

Author : Maria-Josep Solé,Daniel Recasens i Vives
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248411

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The Initiation of Sound Change by Maria-Josep Solé,Daniel Recasens i Vives Pdf

Examines advanced approaches to sound change from various theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech perception mechanisms and neurobiological processes, geographical and social variation, and diachronic phonology.

Author : Wiebke H. Ahlers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316512722

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Consonantal Sound Change in American English by Wiebke H. Ahlers Pdf

Focusing on /str/-retraction, this pioneering book uses a combination of phonological and sociolinguistic theories to explore consonantal sound change in American English. Detailed yet engaging, it is essential reading for both researchers and students in phonetics, phonology, language variation and change, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics.

Author : Richard D. Janda,Brian D. Joseph,Barbara S. Vance
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118732267

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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II by Richard D. Janda,Brian D. Joseph,Barbara S. Vance Pdf

An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics. This brand-new, second volume of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is a complement to the well-established first volume first published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this Handbook focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues. This Handbook provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, new chapters are offered on matters such as the origin of language, evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, invocations of language present in studies of language past, benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation, ways in which not only biological evolution but also field biology can serve as heuristics for research into the rise and spread of linguistic innovations, and more. Moreover, it: offers novel and broadened content complementing the earlier volume so as to provide the fullest available overview of a wholly engrossing field includes 23 all-new contributed chapters, treating some familiar themes from fresh perspectives but mostly covering entirely new topics features expanded discussion of material from language families other than Indo-European provides a multiplicity of views from numerous specialists in linguistic diachrony. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally.

Author : Jeremy Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199291953

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Sound Change and the History of English by Jeremy Smith Pdf

This book discusses the origins of a series of sound changes in English: it investigates their linguistic properties and social and cultural context to investigate why do sound changes happen when and where they do. Written with minimal use of jargon it will appeal to all serious students of English historical linguistics, from advanced undergraduates to researchers.

Author : Robin R. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 077870520X

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How Does Sound Change? by Robin R. Johnson Pdf

Sounds help us understand the world around us. This engaging title provides a close-up look at the science behind different sounds. Readers discover how sound waves travel through different matter and learn about concepts such as echoes, volume, and pitch. Accessible language and relatable examples support reader comprehension.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112316009

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Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky Pdf

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Author : Penelope Eckert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107122970

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Meaning and Linguistic Variation by Penelope Eckert Pdf

An important new study of the social meaning of sociolinguistic variation.

Author : Juliette Blevins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139451468

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Evolutionary Phonology by Juliette Blevins Pdf

Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the nature of sounds patterns and sound change in human language over the past 7000–8000 years, the time depth for which the comparative method is reasonably reliable. This book presents an approach to the problem of how genetically unrelated languages, from families as far apart as Native American, Australian Aboriginal, Austronesian and Indo-European, can often show similar sound patterns, and also tackles the converse problem of why there are notable exceptions to most of the patterns that are often regarded as universal tendencies or constraints. It argues that in both cases, a formal model of sound change that integrates phonetic variation and patterns of misperception can account for attested sound systems without reference to markedness or naturalness within the synchronic grammar.

Author : William F. Katz,Peter F. Assmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429508561

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The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics by William F. Katz,Peter F. Assmann Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of research, history and techniques in phonetics. With contributions from 41 prominent authors from North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, and including over 130 figures to illustrate key points, this handbook covers all the most important areas in the field, including: • the history and scope of techniques used, including speech synthesis, vocal tract imaging techniques, and obtaining information on under-researched languages from language archives; • the physiological bases of speech and hearing, including auditory, articulatory, and neural explanations of hearing, speech, and language processes; • theories and models of speech perception and production related to the processing of consonants, vowels, prosody, tone, and intonation; • linguistic phonetics, with discussions of the phonetics-phonology interface, sound change, second language acquisition, sociophonetics, and second language teaching research; • applications and extensions, including phonetics and gender, clinical phonetics, and forensic phonetics. The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics will be indispensable reading for students and practitioners in the fields of speech, language, linguistics and hearing sciences.

Author : Patrick Honeybone,Joe Salmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199232819

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The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology by Patrick Honeybone,Joe Salmons Pdf

This critical overview examines every aspect of the field including its history, key current research questions and methods, theoretical perspectives, and sociolinguistic factors. The authors represent leading proponents of every theoretical perspective. The book is a valuable resource for phonologists and a stimulating guide for their students.

Author : Helen Casabona,David Frederick
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457424835

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Beginning Synthesizer by Helen Casabona,David Frederick Pdf

Step-by-step instructions on topics such as Using Presets, Performance Controls, Editing Presets, Editing in Performance---over 100 musical examples, diagrams and exercises in programming that will assist the novice or experienced musician in achieving a more musical performance.

Author : Marten Juskan
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961101191

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Sound change, priming, salience by Marten Juskan Pdf

This volume investigates the realisation and perception of four phonological variables in Liverpool English (Scouse), with a special focus on their sociolinguistic salience. Younger speakers’ speech is found to be more local, but only for the two salient variables in the sample (NURSE-SQUARE and /k/ lenition), which appear to carry considerable amounts of covert prestige. Local variants of non-salient happy-tensing and velar nasal plus, on the other hand, are actually found to be receding, so at least to a certain extent Scouse also seems to be participating in regional dialect levelling. The importance of salience is also obvious in the perception data, with only the two highly salient stereotypes generating robust effects in a social priming experiment (albeit in the unexpected direction). These results indicate that the investigated variables differ measurably not only in their use in production, but also in terms of how central they are to mental sociolinguistic representations of Scouse. They also tell us more about the way we process, store, and (re-)use sociolinguistic variation in perception. By defining likely contexts for significant priming effects they might finally even help in coming up with a more elaborate

Author : Theo Vennemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110849608

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Preference Laws for Syllable Structure by Theo Vennemann Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on Disability Determination for Individuals with Hearing Impairments
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309092968

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Hearing Loss by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on Disability Determination for Individuals with Hearing Impairments Pdf

Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with permanent impairments like hearing loss, if they can show that their impairments meet stringent SSA criteria and their earnings are below an SSA threshold. The National Research Council convened an expert committee at the request of the SSA to study the issues related to disability determination for people with hearing loss. This volume is the product of that study. Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits reviews current knowledge about hearing loss and its measurement and treatment, and provides an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the current processes and criteria. It recommends changes to strengthen the disability determination process and ensure its reliability and fairness. The book addresses criteria for selection of pure tone and speech tests, guidelines for test administration, testing of hearing in noise, special issues related to testing children, and the difficulty of predicting work capacity from clinical hearing test results. It should be useful to audiologists, otolaryngologists, disability advocates, and others who are concerned with people who have hearing loss.