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This book provides a practical and easy-to-understand introduction to acoustic speech analysis, primarily aimed at those involved in linguistic analysis and description in the field and at those preparing for such fieldwork. It explains commonly used methods for displaying aspects of a speech wave, such as waveform graphs, spectra, spectrograms, fundamental frequency graphs (pitch graphs), and intensity graphs. It illustrates how the results of acoustic...
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Cet ouvrage met en pratique les théories linguistiques dans l'objectif d'aider l'enseignant à comprendre les erreurs des enfants en français, autant à l'oral qu'à l'écrit. De cette nouvelle approche découleront une conception renouvelée de l'erreur ainsi que des outils plus appropriés pour y remédier.
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Durante los últimos veinte años, el estudio de la entonación ha ido despertando un interés creciente entre los especialistas del habla, hasta convertirse en un tema nuclear de la fonética y la fonología actuales. La aproximación al estudio de la entonación, Hidalgo la hace desde una perspectiva nueva en la fonética y la fonología, anclada no en la descripción de un sistema ideal (que, a menudo, viene a ser más bien una "prescripción"...
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"Antwaneisha", "Brionshay" and "Tayvion"-for some, pronouncing these names are a daunting task, and for others, it's a symbol of cultural identity. Black Names Matter: The Black Names Book defines names commonly referred to as "Ghetto", "Ratchet" and "Hood", in American society by dissecting them. The lesson that the book teaches is that the majority of "Black Names" aren't African, but are unique names that come from combinations of two or more names,...
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This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic. In doing so it provides a much-needed update to the existing RP-based descriptions by which the sound system of British English is still known to many around the world.
The book opens with an account of the rise and fall of RP, before turning...
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In a series of studies specially written for this volume, Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning offers the applied linguist research on spoken interaction in second and foreign languages and provides insights as to how findings from each of these studies may inform language pedagogy. The volume offers an interweaving of discourse perspectives: speech acts, speech events, interactional analysis, pragmatics, and conversational analysis....
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In view of recent debates on the global spread of English and its international lingua franca role, what pronunciation models are appropriate for millions of EFL learners? Which aspects of English phonetics should be taught to foreign students and which can be neglected with little loss to successful communication? How can English pronunciation be taught in an interesting and effective way which is both learner-and teacher-friendly, in accordance...
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Comparative study of literature is an important discipline, which has opened several avenues of studying cultures of different religions, and countries. The world of literature offers opportunities to acquaint ourselves with literature and the genius working at different times and places. Many a time, it so happens that though two minds are separated by time and spaces think alike. This is particularly so in the case of poets and prophet. Tukaram...
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Ever heard people say things like, "A translation is no substitute for the original" or "Humor can't be translated into another language"? In this thought-provoking book, based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Princeton University Professor David Bellos, author of the bestselling book, Is That A Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything, many fascinating features of language and translation are explored...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Parus en allemand en 1939, les Principes de phonologie constituent le huitième volume des Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague, fondé en 1928 par Nikolaï Sergueïevitch Troubetzkoy (1890-1938) et Roman Jakobson, et décidé à conduire une recherche collective approfondie sur le langage.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Principes...
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It spans the areas of assessment, second language acquisition (SLA) and pronunciation and examines topical issues and challenges that relate to formal and informal assessments of second language (L2) speech in classroom, research and real-world contexts. It showcases insights from assessing other skills (e.g. listening and writing) and highlights perspectives from research in speech sciences, SLA, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, including...
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Une étude du lien entre gestes de la parole et particularités linguistiques.
Comme d'autres mouvements humains, les gestes de la parole sont vraisemblablement planifiés selon des stratégies optimales. Cependant, il est probable que la planification de ces gestes soit aussi contrainte par des critères de nature linguistique. De telles contraintes pourraient porter notamment sur la structure phonologique et la longueur des séquences prises en...
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Tone, the use of pitch to provide phonological contrast between morphemes, plays an integral role in the structures of many languages. This book teaches linguists a tried-and-proven methodology for analyzing tone in any part of the world. Significant features:
• Delivers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to tone analysis for field linguists
• Emphasizes the discovery of contrastive tone patterns of morphemes, as opposed to contrastive...
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and renowned researcher of sign languages Carol Padden, the Sanford I. Berman Chair in Language and Human Communication at UC San Diego. This extensive conversation covers topics such as growing up with ASL, Carol's early work with Bill Stokoe, the linguistic complexity, structure and properties of ASL and other sign languages, the development of new sign languages throughout...
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On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition's History and Pedagogy tells the stories of composition's techno-history, from the roads of the ancient world, which allowed students to travel to school, to the audio-visual aids that populate the classrooms of the modern world. Computers are only a small part of this discussion, a technological Johnny-come-lately in a long-running pedagogical palaver.
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This book presents a detailed study of the grammar of the Bamileke languages through one of the variants of this language, Nufi, also called fè'éfé'è. It is carefully organized into seventeen chapters contained on 316 pages and is full of the majority of grammatical aspects that you can imagine. and presentatives, locative adverbs, the different forms of possessive adjectives and pronouns, noun complements, indefinite adjectives, adverbs, pronouns...
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The modern Gaelic alphabet has 18 letters - Gaelic simply needs a smaller alphabet to make its sounds. To pronounce Gaelic words correctly you need to know what the sounds of the letters are, particularly the sounds of combinations of letters. Using his knowledge of the conventions of the language and not a little humour, George McLennan offers a straightforward guide to the Gaelic alphabet. Placenames and surnames are used to illustrate particular...
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