Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind

Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind

Author: Dani Byrd

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-09-26

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1444357786

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Written in a lively style, Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind applies a scientific approach to the study of various aspects of speech, using everyday examples to introduce the beginning student to the world of language and cognition. An accessible introduction to the fundamentals of speech production, speech perception, word-formation, language acquisition and speech disorders Considers how the informational content of the speech signal relates to phonological units – connecting the three areas of speech, words, and mind Focuses on speech production and recognition at the word-level and below, and includes sign languages Written in a highly accessible style for students with no background in linguistics or psychology Packed with numerous student-friendly features, including engaging examples, illustrations, and sidebars for further discussion; further online exercises and data also available at http://www.discoveringspeech.wiley.com/


The Handbook of Speech Perception

The Handbook of Speech Perception

Author: David Pisoni

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 0470756772

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The Handbook of Speech Perception is a collection of forward-looking articles that offer a summary of the technical and theoretical accomplishments in this vital area of research on language. Now available in paperback, this uniquely comprehensive companion brings together in one volume the latest research conducted in speech perception Contains original contributions by leading researchers in the field Illustrates technical and theoretical accomplishments and challenges across the field of research and language Adds to a growing understanding of the far-reaching relevance of speech perception in the fields of phonetics, audiology and speech science, cognitive science, experimental psychology, behavioral neuroscience, computer science, and electrical engineering, among others.


Relevant Acoustic Phonetics of L2 English

Relevant Acoustic Phonetics of L2 English

Author: Ettien Koffi

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1000340015

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Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a psychoacoustic methodology for doing so. Another physicist, von Bekesy, demonstrated clinically that Fletcher’s theory of Critical Bands was anchored in anatomical and auditory reality. Fletcher’s and Bekesy’s approach to intelligibility has revolutionized contemporary understanding of the processes involved in encoding and decoding speech signals. Their insights are applied in this book to account for the intelligibility of the pronunciation of 67 non-native speakers from the following language backgrounds –10 Arabic, 10 Japanese, 10 Korean, 10 Mandarin, 11 Serbian and Croatian "the Slavic Group," 6 Somali, and 10 Spanish speakers who read the Speech Accent Archive elicitation paragraph. Their pronunciation is analyzed instrumentally and compared and contrasted with that of 10 native speakers of General American English (GAE) who read the same paragraph. The data-driven intelligibility analyses proposed in this book help answer the following questions: Can L2 speakers of English whose native language lacks a segment/segments or a suprasegment/ suprasegments manage to produce it/them intelligibly? If they cannot, what segments or suprasegments do they use to substitute for it/them? Do the compensatory strategies used interfere with intelligibility? The findings reported in this book are based on nearly 12,000 measured speech tokens produced by all the participants. This includes some 2,000 vowels, more than 500 stop consonants, over 3,000 fricatives, nearly 1,200 nasals, about 1,500 approximants, a over 1,200 syllables onsets, as many as 800 syllable codas, more than 1,600 measurement of F0/pitch, and duration measurements of no fewer than 539 disyllabic words. These measurements are in keeping with Baken and Orlikoff (2000:3) and in accordance with widely accepted Just Noticeable Difference thresholds, and relative functional load calculations provided by Catforda (1987).


Language Change

Language Change

Author: Anna Mauranen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-12-03

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1108492851

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Through integrating different perspectives on language change, this book explores the enormous on-going linguistic upheavals in the wake of the global dominance of English. Combining empirical research with theoretical approaches, it will appeal to researchers and graduate students of English, and also of other languages studying language change.


The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics

The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics

Author: William F. Katz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 785

ISBN-13: 0429509189

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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.


Babel

Babel

Author: Samuel L. Boyd

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Published: 2023-06-20

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1506480675

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In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Boyd shows how one of the most familiar stories from the Bible, the Tower of Babel, has been misinterpreted for millennia. He offers a new interpretation, and also examines how the story has shaped politics and intellectual culture to the current day.


English Phonetics and Phonology for Spanish Speakers

English Phonetics and Phonology for Spanish Speakers

Author: Brian Leonard Mott

Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona

Published: 2011-03-11

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 8447535045

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Las características más importantes de esta obra son:..- Ejemplificación de muchas variedades lingüísticas, aparte del español y el catalán..- Ejercicios variados al final de cada capítulo..- Múltiples ejercicios de transcripción fonética..- Comparación de los sistemas fonológicos inglés, español y catalán..- Glosario de términos técnicos inglés-castellano..- Apéndice en que se compara el inglés británico con el inglés americano..- CD con grabaciones de listas léxicas y frases completas que ilustran la pronunciación, acentuación y entonación.


Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition

Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition

Author: Patrick Rebuschat

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 1934078247

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Open publication This volume brings together contributors from cognitive psychology, theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as computer science, in order to assess the progress made in statistical learning research and to determine future directions. An important objective is to critically examine the role of statistical learning in language acquisition. While most contributors agree that statistical learning plays a central role in language acquisition, they have differing views. This book will promote the development of the field by fostering discussion and collaborations across disciplinary boundaries.


Vocabulary Enrichment Programme

Vocabulary Enrichment Programme

Author: Victoria Joffe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-05

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 1000474518

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This book helps to enhance the understanding and use of vocabulary in secondary school students and young adults. Specifically designed for older children and young adults with language and communication needs, this practical language programme was created by a specialist speech & language therapist with input from secondary school teachers and students. The Vocabulary Enrichments Programme: focuses on enhancing the understanding and expression of vocabulary and word meanings in students aged from 8 to 18 aims to create an awareness of how improved vocabulary knowledge can be used to enhance learning in school and social interactions in school and home environments encourages an awareness and interest in words and language, introduces the concept of words and meanings and identifies their role and use in language, communication and social interaction introduces the word map and explore the rich networks of information attached to each word, including the meanings and make up of words using root and base words, suffixes and prefixes, synonyms and antonyms, and the etymology (origins) of words focuses on themes taken from the National Curriculum, including living and non living organisms, planet Earth and the world, the human body, emotions, healthy living, and occupations enhances the understanding and use of figurative and idiomatic language as well as more compound and complex sentence structures introduces a range of cueing techniques to aid in word retrieval. This book provide effective strategies for word learning to encourage independent word learning skills. It teaches an effective, efficient and realistic use of the dictionary as a tool for word learning and explore the role of the thesaurus in enhancing oral and written work.