SubjectsLinguistics / Phonetics
Journal
ISSN 2215-1931 | E‑ISSN 2215‑194X
Turn-Taking in Second Language Acquisition: The role of prosody in turn-end prediction
Emilia Nottbeck
This volume investigates to what extent second language learners of English anticipate the end of a speaker’s turn during turn-taking and what role prosodic cues play in this process. Drawing on two reaction-time experiments that partially replicate earlier turn-taking studies, it compares native… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 10] 2026. xv, 246 pp. + index
La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE: Integrating pronunciation in the Spanish language classroom
Editado por Zsuzsanna Bárkányi, M. Mar Galindo Merino y Aarón Pérez-Bernabeu
La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE es una obra colectiva de 23 especialistas que abordan la enseñanza de la pronunciación del español como lengua adicional desde distintas perspectivas con el fin de enriquecer su didáctica. El objetivo es mostrar que la pronunciación encuentra su… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 42] 2024. vi, 310 pp.
Patterns and Representation in Arabic Place Assimilation
Islam Youssef
This book is a phonological investigation of place assimilation phenomena in two major Arabic dialects: Cairene Egyptian and Baghdadi Iraqi. The studied phenomena involve interactions between consonants (various types of local assimilation), between vowels (monophthongization), or between… read more[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 13] 2023. xii, 230 pp.
The Sociophonetics of Dublin English: Phonetic realisation and sociopragmatic variation
Marion Schulte
The Sociophonetics of Dublin English shows how social inequalities and language are connected by the stances speakers take in interaction. It is based on an instrumental phonetic analysis of recorded interviews and broadcasting data and a detailed qualitative account of the same data as well as the… read more
The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness
Edited by John M. Levis, Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro
Inspired by Murray Munro and Tracey Derwing’s 1995 seminal study of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, this book revisits the insights of their original research and presents subsequent studies extending this work to new ways of understanding second language speech. By rejecting… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 121] 2022. v, 234 pp.
Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry: Rhythm, Phonemes, Voice Quality
Reuven Tsur † and Chen Gafni
This book is a collection of studies providing a unique view on two central aspects of poetry: sounds and emotive qualities, with emphasis on their interactions. The book addresses various theoretical and methodological issues related to topics like sound symbolism, poetic prosody, and voice… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 39] 2022. xv, 448 pp.
25 years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Accentedness
Edited by John M. Levis, Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:3 (2020) vi, 234 pp.
In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach
Edited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso
What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] 2020. xi, 440 pp.
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain
Edited by Rajiv Rao
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another language in speech communities across the Hispanophone world influences their… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 28] 2020. x, 452 pp.
Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception
Edited by Whitney Chappell
This book provides a cutting-edge exploration of the social meaning of phonetic variation in the Spanish-speaking world. Its 11 chapters elucidate the ways in which listeners process, perceive, and propagate phonetically motivated social meaning across monolingual and contact varieties, including… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 21] 2019. vi, 344 pp.
Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman
Edited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge
Dedicated to John B. Whitman, this collection of seventeen articles provides a forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on a wide range of linguistic phenomena in a wide variety of Asian languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Austronesian, Indo-Aryan, and Thai. Ranging from syntax and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 250] 2018. xx, 390 pp.
Sonic Signatures: Studies dedicated to John Harris
Edited by Geoff Lindsey and Andrew Nevins
Sonic Signatures is devoted to the representation of sound patterns and sound structures across a diverse range of typologically distinct languages with the overall aim of understanding the nature of linguistic data structures from a principled balance between representational economy and the… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 14] 2017. x, 322 pp.
Intonation Units Revisited: Cesuras in talk-in-interaction
Dagmar Barth-Weingarten
Intonation units have been notoriously difficult to identify in natural talk. Problems include fuzzy boundaries, lack of exhaustivity, and the potential circularity involved when studying their interface with other language-organizational dimensions. This volume advocates a way to resolve such… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 29] 2016. xviii, 318 pp.
Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields
Edited by Meghan E. Armstrong, Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell
Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields is a volume of empirical research papers incorporating recent theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary advances in the field of intonation, as they relate to the Ibero-Romance languages. The volume brings… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6] 2016. xxi, 389 pp.
Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy
Edited by Jenny Thomson and Linda Jarmulowicz
The intersection of sound processing, speech production, and literacy is a promising and growing area of study. This volume showcases recent empirical research exploring the association between linguistic rhythm and reading. Linguistic rhythm does not easily assume a single definition, which is… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 17] 2016. xiv, 286 pp.
Nasals and Nasalization in Spanish and Portuguese: Perception, phonetics and phonology
C. Elizabeth Goodin-Mayeda
Nasality, whether part of a consonant or vowel, has certain phonetic and phonological characteristics that lead to outcomes seen time and again in languages with and without common ancestries. Spanish and Portuguese constitute a particularly fruitful language pairing for studying phonological… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 9] 2016. x, 115 pp.
Phonological and Phonetic Considerations of Lexical Processing
Edited by Gonia Jarema and Gary Libben †
The human ability to understand and produce spoken words is fascinating in its complexity. People often vary in how they pronounce a word. They may need to recognize words spoken with an accent quite different from their own. And, in order to understand a word of a second or foreign language, they… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 80] 2015. ix, 233 pp.
Pronunciation Fundamentals: Evidence-based perspectives for L2 teaching and research
Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro
The emergence of empirical approaches to L2 pronunciation research and teaching is a powerful fourth wave in the history of the field. Authored by two leading proponents of evidence-based instruction, this volume surveys both foundational and cutting-edge empirical work and pinpoints its… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 42] 2015. xiii, 208 pp.
A Sociophonetic Approach to Scottish Standard English
Ole Schützler
Applying a sociophonetic research paradigm, this volume presents an investigation of variation and change in the Scottish Standard English accent. Based on original audio recordings made in Edinburgh, it provides detailed acoustic and auditory analyses of selected accent features. In contrast to… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G53] 2015. xx, 179 pp.
The Phonetics–Phonology Interface: Representations and methodologies
Edited by Joaquín Romero and María Riera
This volume is a collection of advanced laboratory phonology research papers concerned with the interaction between the physical and the mental aspects of speech and language. The traditional linguistic theoretic distinction between phonetics and phonology is put to the test here in a series of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 335] 2015. xxi, 288 pp.
Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics
Edited by Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten
Above and Beyond the Segments presents a unique collection of experimental linguistic and phonetic research. Mainly, it deals with the experimental approach to prosodic, and more specifically melodic, aspects of speech. But it also treats segmental phonetics and phonology, second language… read more[Not in series, 189] 2014. xii, 363 pp.
Advances in Sociophonetics
Edited by Chiara Celata and Silvia Calamai
Sociophonetics is a privileged domain for the investigation of language variation and change. By combining theoretical reflections and sophisticated techniques of analysis – both phonetic and statistical – it is possible to extrapolate the role of individual factors (socio-cultural, physiological,… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 15] 2014. vi, 214 pp.
Playing by Ear and the Tip of the Tongue: Precategorial information in poetry
Reuven Tsur †
In our everyday life we are flooded by a pandemonium of information which consciousness organizes into more easily manageable phonetic and semantic categories. In poetry reading, however, the total effect of a poem is not only obtained by some of these categories but also by precategorial… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 14] 2012. xi, 310 pp.
Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics
Edited by Zeki Majeed Hassan and Barry Heselwood
Brought together in this volume are fourteen studies using a range of modern instrumental methods – acoustic and articulatory – to investigate the phonetics of several North African and Middle Eastern varieties of Arabic. Topics covered include syllable structure, quantity, assimilation, guttural… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 319] 2011. xii, 365 pp.
Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations
Edited by Marina Vigário, Sónia Frota and M. João Freitas
The papers included in the volume Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations are concerned with some of the multiple possible forms of interactions and interrelations in phonetics and phonology: the phonetic and/or phonological nature of speech patterns, segmental and prosodic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 306] 2009. vi, 290 pp.
Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond
Edited by Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo
Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with the study of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sense that more or less coincides with the traditional notion of “versification”. Understood this way, metrics is an eminently complex object that displays variation… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 2] 2009. xiv, 428 pp.
Athabaskan Prosody
Edited by Sharon Hargus and Keren Rice
This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various Athabaskan languages,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 269] 2005. xii, 432 pp.
Focus Structure in Generative Grammar: An integrated syntactic, semantic and intonational approach
Carsten Breul
The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 68] 2004. x, 430 pp.
Sound Patterns in Interaction: Cross-linguistic studies from conversation
Edited by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Cecilia E. Ford
This collection of original papers by eminent phoneticians, linguists and sociologists offers the most recent findings on phonetic design in interactional discourse available in an edited collection. The chapters examine the organization of phonetic detail in relation to social actions in… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 62] 2004. viii, 406 pp.
Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation: Syntactic, informational and functional structures
Kazuko Matsumoto
This book explores how speakers of Japanese organize their messages into coherent units as they jointly and interactively construct conversational discourse. Specifically, it investigates the syntactic, informational, and functional structures of intonation units (IUs) as basic units of discourse… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 65] 2003. xviii, 212 pp.
The Phonological Spectrum: Volume I: Segmental structure
Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst
The two volumes of the Phonological Spectrum aim at giving a comprehensive overview of current developments in phonological theory, by providing a number of papers in different areas of current theorizing which reflect on particular problems from different angles. Volume I is concerned with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 233] 2003. x, 306 pp.
The Phonological Spectrum: Volume II: Suprasegmental structure
Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst
The two volumes of the Phonological Spectrum aim at giving a comprehensive overview of current developments in phonological theory, by providing a number of papers in different areas of current theorizing which reflect on particular problems from different angles. Volume II deals with phonological… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 234] 2003. x, 262 pp.
The Phonological Spectrum: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst
The two volumes of the Phonological Spectrum aim at giving a comprehensive overview of current developments in phonological theory, by providing a number of papers in different areas of current theorizing which reflect on particular problems from different angles.Volume I is concerned with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 233-234] 2003. x, 308 pp. & x, 264 pp.
Particle Verbs in English: Syntax, information structure and intonation
Nicole Dehé
This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 59] 2002. xii, 302 pp.
Tone of Voice and Mind: The connections between intonation, emotion, cognition and consciousness
Norman D. Cook
Tone of Voice and Mind is a synthesis of findings from neurophysiology (how neurons produce subjective feeling), neuropsychology (how the human cerebral hemispheres undertake complementary information-processing), intonation studies (how the emotions are encoded in the tone of voice), and music… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 47] 2002. x, 293 pp.
Phonetics and Phonology of Tense and Lax Obstruents in German
Michael Jessen
Knowing that the so-called voiced and voiceless stops in languages like English and German do not always literally differ in voicing, several linguists among them Roman Jakobson have proposed that dichotomies such as fortis/lenis or tense/lax might be more suitable to capture the invariant… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 44] 1998. xx, 394 pp.
Advances in Clinical Phonetics
Edited by Martin J. Ball and Martin Duckworth
Advances in Clinical Phonetics focuses on important developments in phonetic description. Recent years have seen increasing developments in phonetic description, in both instrumental and impressionistic approaches. Not restricted to the phonetics of normal speech, clinical phoneticians and speech… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 6] 1996. xiv, 258 pp.
'Geschichtszahlen der Phonetik' (1941), together with 'Quellenatlas der Phonetik' (1940): New edition
Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia (1878–1966)
In this volume two monographs are reprinted in their entirety; these texts by the most distinguished phonetician of the first half of this century, Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia (1878-1966), are even today still the most comprehensive accounts of the 3000-year history of the study of sound by humans.… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 16] 1994. xxxviii, 174 pp.
Sound Change
Edited by Marc Dominicy and Didier Demolin
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 9] 1994. 158 pp.
English Speech Rhythm: Form and function in everyday verbal interaction
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 25] 1993. x, 346 pp.
The Phonetics of Fingerspelling
Sherman Wilcox
We now know that natural signed languages such as American Sign Language, French Sign Language, British Sign Language and others are fully independent languages. But natural signed languages are only one way of conveying language in the visual/gestural modality. Signed languages also have… read more[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 4] 1992. vi, 108 pp.
Phonological Reconstruction
Edited by Marc Dominicy and Juliette Dror
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 3] 1988. 183 pp.
An Introduction to the Comparative Phonetics of English and French in North America
Marc Picard
This textbook is designed to fill two basic needs. One is for a clear and straightforward presentation of the rudiments of articulatory phonetics which is geared specifically to the requirements of the (future) language teacher, and not exclusively to the student of linguistics, and in which the… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 7] 1987. xi, 90 pp.
Tibeto-Burman Tonology: A Comparative Analysis
Alfons Weidert
This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects. This… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 54] 1987. xvii, 512 pp.
Current Issues in the Phonetic Sciences: Proceedings of the IPS-77 Congress, Miami Beach, Florida, 17–19 December 1977
Edited by Harry Hollien and Patricia Hollien
These papers, from the IPS-77 Congress held in Miami Beach, Florida in 1977, present the state-of-the-art in phonetic science. The volume is subdivided into twelve sections: History of Phonetics, Issues of Method and Theory in Phonetics, Laryngeal Function, Temporal Factors and Intonation,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 9] 1979. xxi, 587pp., xiii, 608 pp.
Voice Quality: A classified research bibliography
John Laver
The characteristic voice quality of a speaker conveys to listeners a wealth of information about his physical, psychological and social attributes. For this reason, voice quality is of interest to a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, phonetics and speech science, speech pathology,… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 5] 1979. viii, 225 pp.
Zur 'Heliand' metrik: Das Verhältnis von Rhythmus und Satzgewicht im Altsächsischen
Ingeborg Hinderschiedt
Die Heliandmetrik ist eine Metrik im Altsachsischen. In dieser Studie wird versucht eine Analyse, Beschreibung und Auswertung nach der formalen Kriterien zu beschreiben. Wichtig ist vor allem das Verhältnis von Rhythmus und Satzgewicht. read more[German Language and Literature Monographs, 8] 1979. vi, 143 pp.