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Author: Philippe Martin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-11-26
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1107036186
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian).
Author: Janet Townend
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2006-02-17
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This accessible text is split into 2 halves. Initially, Janet Townend takes the reader through the early development and the structure and usage of spoken English. In the second half Jean Walker explains the history and structure of written English, including word formation and grammar. It is unusual to find both aspects of this fascinating area of human activity combined in one volume. These insights form an essential foundation for teachers, student teachers, teacher trainers, and specialists in special needs and literacy. It will be of interest to all who speak and write, and are involved in helping others to do so. Janet Townend trained as a speech and language therapist and Jean Walker as an English teacher. Both are now specialist teachers and trainers in the field of dyslexia, literacy and language.
Author: Texas Linguistics Society. Conference
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-10-24
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 0521803853
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Author: Philippe Martin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-11-26
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1316390314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using an innovative approach, this book focuses on a widely debated area of phonetics and phonology: intonation, and specifically its relation to metrics, its interface with syntax, and whether it can be attributed more to phonetics or phonology, or equally to both. Drawing on data from six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian), whose rich intonation patterns have long been of interest to linguists, Philippe Martin challenges the assumptions of traditional phonological approaches, and re-evaluates the data in favour of a new usage-based model of intonation. He proposes a unified description of the sentence prosodic structure, focusing on the dynamic and cognitive aspects of both production and perception of intonation in speech, leading to a unified grammar of Romance languages' sentence intonation. This book will be welcomed by researchers and advanced students in phonetics and phonology.
Author: Peter W. Jusczyk
Publisher: Bradford Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780262600361
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Discovery of Spoken Language marks one of the first efforts to integrate the field of infant speech perception research into the general study of language acquisition. It fills in a key part of the acquisition story by providing an extensive review of research on the acquisition of language during the first year of life, focusing primarily on how normally developing infants learn the organization of native language sound patterns. Peter Jusczyk examines the initial capacities that infants possess for discriminating and categorizing speech sounds and how these capacities evolve as infants gain experience with native language input. Jusczyk also looks at how infants' growing knowledge of native language sound patterns may facilitate the acquisition of other aspects of language organization and discusses the relationship between the learner's developing capacities for perceiving and producing speech.
Author: Shlomo Izre'el
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2020-06-15
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9027261539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their own theoretical and practical experience to the table. In the first part of the book they segment spoken material from a range of different languages (Russian, Hebrew, Central Pomo (an indigenous language from California), French, Japanese, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese). In the second part of the book each author analyzes the same two spoken English samples, but looking at them from different perspectives, using different methods of analysis as reflected in their respective analyses in Part I. This approach allows for common tendencies of segmentation to emerge, both prosodic and segmental.
Author: Jonathan Owens
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1135968403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spoken Arabic is different in many respects from literary Arabic. This book is concerned with speakers’ intentions and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ. Based on new empirical findings from across the Arabic world this work will be of interest to both students and researchers.
Author: András Kertész
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-05-06
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 3110540258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Even though the range of phenomena syntactic theories intend to account for is basically the same, the large number of current approaches to syntax shows how differently these phenomena can be interpreted, described, and explained. The goal of the volume is to probe into the question of how exactly these frameworks differ and what if anything they have in common.Descriptions of a sample of current approaches to syntax are presented by their major practitioners (Part I) followed by their metatheoretical underpinnings (Part II). Given that the goal is to facilitate a systematic comparison among the approaches, a checklist of issues was given to the contributors to address. The main headings are Data, Goals, Descriptive Tools, and Criteria for Evaluation. The chapters are structured uniformly allowing an item-by-item survey across the frameworks. The introduction lays out the parameters along which syntactic frameworks must be the same and how they may differ and a final paper draws some conclusions about similarities and differences.The volume is of interest to descriptive linguists, theoreticians of grammar, philosophers of science, and studies of the cognitive science of science.
Author: Alexander Haselow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-11-16
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1108417213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book takes the reader on a journey through the structure of everyday spoken English, providing a fresh look at the relation between language and the mind.
