English Word-Stress
English Word-Stress

Author: Erik Fudge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1317380290

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First published in 1984, this book was designed to benefit the foreign learner who wishes to grasp the essential basis of English stress so that he or she can go on to predict stress patterns in new words. It is aimed at teachers of English as a foreign language and helps them to communicate English stress effectively to their students. The book bridges the gap between books that are mainly anecdotal or abstract, practical or theoretical, or made up of lists or principles.

Compound Stress in English
Compound Stress in English

Author: Gero Kunter

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 3110254697

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While it has long been noted that the first element of most, but not of all English nominal compounds is perceptually most prominent (e.g. TABLE cloth vs. paper CUP), a principled empirical investigation of the acoustics, perception, and the phonological distribution of these two prominence patterns has been missing. Using a corpus of spoken language, the current volume presents the first thorough and detailed investigation of these areas, while also introducing several methodological and statistical innovations to the field.

Describing Spoken English
Describing Spoken English

Author: Charles W. Kreidler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-03-11

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1134747071

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Describing Spoken English provides a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English. It presumes no prior knowledge of phonetics and phonology. Charles Kreidler describes the principal varieties of English in the world today. Whilst concentrating on the phonological elements they share, the author sets out specific differences as minor variations on a theme. Although theoretically orientated towards generative phonology, theory is minimal and the book is clear, comprehensive and accessible to undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and English Language. Numerous exercises are included to encourage further study.

The Pronunciation of English
The Pronunciation of English

Author: Charles W. Kreidler

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0470759232

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This revised second edition provides an introduction to the phonetics and phonology of English. It incorporates all central aspects of research in the phonology of English and involves the reader at every step, with over 80 exercises leading students to discover facts, to formulate general statements, and to apply concepts. Discusses the nature of speech and phonetic description, the principles of phonological analysis, the consonants and vowels of English and their possible sequences. Provides extensive treatment of rhythm, stress, and intonation and the role of these prosodic elements in discourse. Includes more than 80 exercises with feedback and glossary of technical terms. Incorporates developments in phonology since the first edition appeared.

A Contrastive Metrical Analysis of Main Word Stress in English and Cairene Colloquial Arabic
A Contrastive Metrical Analysis of Main Word Stress in English and Cairene Colloquial Arabic

Author: Mohamed Fathy Khalifa

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-06-20

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 1443896160

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This book analyses Cairenes’ interlingual errors in English main word stress following Halle and Vergnaud’s (1987) metrical model and Archibald’s (1998) parameter resetting. The findings show the difficulty the research subjects had in stressing items with stress different from Cairene Colloquial Arabic (CCA) and with stress similar to CCA. The book also shows that the subjects’ correct stress patterns were due to parameter resetting, and that English stress patterns that are both different and more marked than corresponding CCA stress patterns caused learning difficulties for the subjects.

Teaching English As a Foreign Language, 1936-1961
Teaching English As a Foreign Language, 1936-1961

Author: Richard C. Smith

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780415331609

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This set includes the works of neglected theorists such as Horace Wyatt and Michael West. This set complements English as a Foreign Language Teacing, 1912-1936: Pioneers of ELT.

Phonetics of English
Phonetics of English

Author: Daniel Jones

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9780415233378

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This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

Development in Prosodic Systems
Development in Prosodic Systems

Author: Paula Fikkert

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-09-27

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 311089453X

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This book brings together papers on various aspects of prosodic development from a generative linguistic perspective. It addresses issues such as the relationship between tone, stress and quantity, the evidence for prosodic change from metrics and discusses the role of analogy, language contact, and language acquisition in change. The unique combination of different methodologies and perspectives investigating development in prosodic systems provides a new and broader scope on historical linguistics.