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Author: Geoffrey Barker
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780820468372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccompanying CD-ROM contains ... an electronic text and sound files to give the reader access to the speech samples." -- p. [xv].
Author: Brian Butterworth
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2014-07-24
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 3110868555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sun-Ah Jun
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 0199208743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book illustrates an approach to prosodic typology through descriptions of the intonation and the prosodic structure of thirteen typologically different languages based on the same theoretical framework, the 'autosegmental-metrical' model of intonational phonology, and the transcriptionsystem of prosody known as Tones and Break Indices (ToBI). It is the first book introducing the history and principles of this system and it covers European languages, Asian languages, an Australian aboriginal language, and an American Indian language. The book shows how languages and dialects aresimilar to or different from other languages or dialect varieties in terms of the prosodic structure, the intonational categories, and their realizations. This is the first book on intonation which is accompanied by a CD-ROM where sound files mentioned in each chapter are stored.
Author: Daniel Jones
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780415233378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-01-07
Total Pages: 957
ISBN-13: 0198832230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.
Author: Center for Applied Linguistics
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ann Cook
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780764173691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDirected to speakers of English as a second language, a multi-media guide to pronouncing American English uses a "pure-sound" approach to speaking to help imitate the fluid ways of American speech.
Author: Neil MacGregor
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 1101875674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years. German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses, and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places that still resonate in the new Germany—porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald—to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.
Author: Eric A. Anchimbe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-12-20
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9400778813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescriptions of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation. This volume–while further illustrating processes and instantiations of indigenisation at this level–incorporates investigations of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in daily social interaction–e.g. politeness, respect, compliment response, naming and address forms, and gender–through innovative analytic frameworks that view indigenisation from emic perspectives. Focusing on postcolonial Cameroon and using natural and questionnaire data, the book assesses the salience of linguistic and sociocultural hybridisation triggered by colonialism and, recently, globalisation in interaction in and across languages and cultures. The authors illustrate how the multilingual nature of the society and individuals’ multilingual repertoires shape patterns in the indigenisation and evolution of the ex-colonial languages, English and French, and Pidgin English.
Author: D. Robert Ladd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-12-12
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521475754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntonation is a subject of increasing importance in fields from syntax to speech recognition. D. Robert Ladd provides an exceptionally clear presentation of the key ideas of the influential autosegmental-metrical theory of intonational phonology associated with the work of Janet Pierrehumbert. He outlines the evidence for the theory's basic tenets and relates them to the ideas of competing approaches in a way that will allow sceptics to reach an informed opinion and he presents a wealth of new material on the cross-language comparison of intonation couched in autosegmental-metrical terms. He also draws attention to problems in Pierrehumbert's version of the autosegmental-metrical theory, and offers some theoretical proposals of his own. This book will appeal to phonologists and phoneticians as an original contribution to the debates it discusses, and will be welcomed by a wide range of students and researchers as an ideal overview of recent work.
