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Book Synopsis Vowels and Consonants by : Peter Ladefoged
Download or read book Vowels and Consonants written by Peter Ladefoged and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, and expanded coverage of topics such as speech technology. Describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages Written by the late Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, with updates by renowned forensic linguist, Sandra Ferrari Disner Includes numerous revisions to the discussion of speech technology and additional updates throughout the book Explores the acoustic, articulatory, and perceptual components of speech, demonstrates speech synthesis, and explains how speech recognition systems work Supported by an accompanying website at www.vowelsandconsonants3e.com featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life
Book Synopsis Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory by : Martin Krämer
Download or read book Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory written by Martin Krämer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory covers the major issues in the generative analysis of vowel harmony and vowel harmony typology. The book offers an economical account of the most prominent features of vowel harmony systems (root control, affix control, dominance, vowel opacity, and neutrality) within the framework of optimality theory, extending the notion of correspondence to the syntagmatic dimension.The book contains a typological overview of vowel harmony patterns, an introduction to the basics of optimality theory including some of its most recent extensions and detailed studies of harmony systems in 10 languages from a variety of language families.
Download or read book Short Vowels written by Dick & Jane and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new series of workbooks designed to help children recognize and recite short vowel sounds with games, sound recognition, following directions, tracing and writing, and thinking skills.
Download or read book Bob Books written by Bobby Lynn Maslen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bob Books long vowels introduces important new reading skills! Children learn long vowels and the magical silent e. Maturing readers' vocabularies grow quickly as they finish the stories in these eight longer books, 16-24 pages each. Upon finishing Bob Books Long Vowels, kids are proud to be ready for chapter books" -- Back of container.
Download or read book Short Vowels written by Wiley Blevins and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The alphabet has 26 letters. Five of them are vowels: a-e-i-o-u. They can make long and short sounds. The short vowels can be used to build many simple words. Readers learn what these short vowels can do."--
Download or read book Phonics Book 1 written by Vernada Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phonics Series by Vernada Thomas helps young learners with their reading and comprehension of words and sounds. Phonics Book 1: Short Vowels with Digraphs uses a combination of traditional, direct, and unique reading exercises. The activities in this workbook help children build their vocabulary and better understand simple words - mostly featuring short vowel sounds. The exercises within this book contain letter matching, learning alphabet sounds (with an online audio component), practicing handwriting, reading short sentences and paragraphs, writing in missing letters, short vowel digraphs, consonant digraphs, word scrambles, and (of course!) coloring!These Phonics workbooks are extremely helpful to children who are learning English as a Second Language and many of these activities are specifically ESL Reading Exercises.Find the audio and learn more about Vernada Thomas at VernadaThomas.com.
Book Synopsis Animal Strike at the Zoo. It's True! by : Karma Wilson
Download or read book Animal Strike at the Zoo. It's True! written by Karma Wilson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's an animal strike at the zoo! oh no, oh my! What's a zookeeper to do when the lions and tigers and bears refuse to roar and prowl and growl? And when little Sue, who has been waiting all year for this trip to the zoo, enters the gate, will the animals decide to give their strike a break? Karma Wilson's fun, playful text paired with Margaret Spengler's bright and lively pastels create an unforgettable, irresistible zoo of chaos and fun!
Book Synopsis Vowel/Glide Alternation in a Theory of Constraint Interaction by : Samuel Rosenthall
Download or read book Vowel/Glide Alternation in a Theory of Constraint Interaction written by Samuel Rosenthall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. The alternation between high vowels and glides is shown here to follow from the interaction of phonological constraints as defined by Prince and Smolensky's (1993) Optimality Theory. The alternation stems from simultaneously comparing moraic and nonmoraic parses of high vowels for constraint satisfaction
Book Synopsis Book of Words by : Valeda D. Blockcolsky
Download or read book Book of Words written by Valeda D. Blockcolsky and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony by : Nancy A. Ritter
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony written by Nancy A. Ritter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-10 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a detailed account of the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a pattern according to which all vowels within a word must agree for some phonological property or properties. Vowel harmony has been central in the development of phonological theories thanks to its cluster of remarkable properties, notably its typically 'unbounded' character and its non-locality, and because it forms part of the phonology of most world languages. The five parts of this volume cover all aspects of vowel harmony from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Part I outlines the types of vowel harmony and some unusual cases, before Part II explores structural issues such as vowel inventories, the interaction of vowel harmony and morphological structure, and locality. The chapters in Part III provide an overview of the various theoretical accounts of the phenomenon, as well as bringing in insights from language acquisition and psycholinguistics, while Part IV focuses on the historical life cycle of vowel harmony, looking at topics such as phonetic factors and the effect of language contact. The final part contains 31 chapters that present data and analysis of vowel harmony across all major language families as well as several isolates, constituting the broadest coverage of the phenomenon to date.
Book Synopsis Vowel Perception and Production by : B. S. Rosner
Download or read book Vowel Perception and Production written by B. S. Rosner and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1994-07-21 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last 50 years have witnessed a rapid growth in the understanding of the articulation and the acoustics of vowels. Contemporary theories of speech perception have concentrated on consonant perception, and this volume is intended as a balance to such bias. The authors propose a computational theory of auditory vowel perception, accounting for vowel identification in the face of acoustic differences between speakers and speaking rate and stress. This work lays the foundation for future experimental and computational studies of vowel perception.
Book Synopsis Markedness and Faithfulness in Vowel Systems by : Viola Miglio
Download or read book Markedness and Faithfulness in Vowel Systems written by Viola Miglio and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems by : Viola Giulia Miglio
Download or read book Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems written by Viola Giulia Miglio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miglio argues that to assess the relative markedness of a segment, frequency of occurrence in vowel inventories is insufficient when considered on its own. In its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary change even in a surface-oriented theory such as optimality theory, with the help of local conjunction. Miglio extends the device of local conjunction to model opaque relations, and calls for reranking and lexicon optimization as the means to capture change within optimality theory.
Book Synopsis The Historical Phonology of Vowel Length by : Brent de Chene
Download or read book The Historical Phonology of Vowel Length written by Brent de Chene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data from a variety of languages are offered in support of the claim that although there are several processes by which languages commonly add to an already existing stock of long vowels, there is only one mechanism by which a language without a distinction of vocalic length commonly introduces such a distinction. This mechanism is the coalescence of vowel sequences, typically after loss of intervocalic consonants. This book examines vowels lengths, their differences and their effects on language.
Book Synopsis Issues in Vowel Harmony by : Robert M. Vago
Download or read book Issues in Vowel Harmony written by Robert M. Vago and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vowel harmony is a well known phonological phenomenon found in a large number of languages spoken mainly in Eurasia and the African continent. In simple terms, vowel harmony is a law which governs the co-occurrence of vowels within a span of utterance, nearly always the word. The contributions of this volume focus on various (not always uncontroversial) aspects of vowel harmony that include typological investigations, phonetic/acoustic experimental studies, descriptions of individual systems, genetic and historical ramifications, and implications for a variety of theoretical models. This volume will prove to be a useful guide to the multifaceted issues posed by an often discussed and quite significant phonological process. This volume will stimulate further discussion and better understanding of the issues raised by the intricate process called vowel harmony.
Book Synopsis Dynamics and Transparency in Vowel Harmony by : Stefan Benus
Download or read book Dynamics and Transparency in Vowel Harmony written by Stefan Benus and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the phonological patterning as well as phonetic characteristics of transparent vowels in Hungarian palatal vowel harmony. Traditionally, these vowels are assumed to be excluded from participating in harmony alternations. The experimental data presented in this dissertation run contrary to this assumption. The data show that transparent vowels in Hungarian are articulated differently depending on the harmonic domain in which they occur. Based on this observation, the central claim defended and formalized in this dissertation is that continuous phonetic details of all stem vowels including the transparent vowels are relevant for the phonological alternation in suffixes. The dissertation proposes an integrated model that relates phonetic and phonological aspects of vowel harmony using the formal language of non-linear dynamic. The advantage of this approach is in its potential to capture both qualitative as well as quantitative aspects of the same pattern in a unified way. Crucially, a dynamic approach allows one to express both phonological and phonetic generalizations while maintaining the essential distinction between them. Hence, the dynamic approach provides a feasible research strategy in the quest for understanding one of the continuing challenges in the study of speech: the relation between phonology - the mental or symbolic aspects of our speaking competence, and phonetics - continuous physical manifestations of this competence. Applied to the particular case of transparency in Hungarian vowel harmony, the premise of interdependency between the phonetic properties of the stem vowels and the phonological patterns of suffix selection allows for an explanation of a broad range of data. Most importantly, it provides a motivation for the cross-linguistic generalizations related to transparent vowels in palatal vowel harmony systems. In addition, the effects of tongue body height, lip rounding, and surrounding vocalic context on the suffix selection in Hungarian receive a natural and lawful explanation. To summarize, this dissertation presents novel experimental data from the production of transparent vowels in Hungarian. The proposed integrated model, relating phonetics and phonology using the formal language of non-linear dynamic, achieves a unified explanation of both the phonetic and phonological generalizations observed in the data and the literature.
Book Synopsis Vowel Patterns in Language by : Rachel Walker
Download or read book Vowel Patterns in Language written by Rachel Walker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguists researching the sounds of languages do not just study lists of sounds but seek to discover generalizations about sound patterns by grouping them into categories. They study the common properties of each category and identify what distinguishes one category from another. Vowel patterns, for instance, are analysed and compared across languages to identify phonological similarities and differences. This account of vowel patterns in language brings a wealth of cross-linguistic material to the study of vowel systems and offers theoretical insights. Informed by research in speech perception and production, it addresses the fundamental question of how the relative prominence of word position influences vowel processes and distributions. The book combines a cross-linguistic focus with detailed case studies. Descriptions and analyses are provided for vowel patterns in over 25 languages from around the world, with particular emphasis on minor Romance languages and on the diachronic development of the German umlaut.