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Phonological Schematicity in Interscandinavian Decoding: A constructionist approach

Anna Hagel

Generations of linguists have been intrigued by intercommunication as it can be observed between speakers of the closely related languages Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Although interlocutors typically struggle with this multilingual mode of communication at first, they quickly learn to deal with… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 42] 2026. ix, 289 pp. + index

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.

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.

Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives

Edited by Kimi Akita and Prashant Pardeshi

This volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as ideophones, mimetics, and expressives. A large part of the literature on this long-neglected word class has been dedicated to the description of its sound symbolism, marked morphophonology, and grammatical status… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 16] 2019. ix, 325 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.

Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology

Edited by Bridget D. Samuels

In recent years, an increasing number of linguists have re-examined the question of whether markedness has explanatory power, or whether it is a phenomenon that begs explanation itself. This volume brings together a collection of articles with a broad range of critical viewpoints on the notion of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 241] 2017. xii, 237 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.

Syllable Weight in African Languages

Edited by Paul Newman

Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and explanation whether theoretical, typological, or descriptive. African linguistics was critical in the original development of the concept and, as this book demonstrates, the concept… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 338] 2017. x, 219 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Coarticulation and Sound Change in Romance

Daniel Recasens

This volume should be of great interest to phoneticians, phonologists, and both historical and cognitive linguists. Using data from the Romance languages for the most part, the book explores the phonetic motivation of several sound changes, e.g., glide insertions and elisions, vowel and consonant… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 329] 2014. xi, 207 pp.

The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm

Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli

This volume brings together articles by some major figures in various linguistics domains — phonology, morphology and syntax — aiming at explaining the form of linguistic items by exploring the structures that underlie them.The book is divided in 5 parts: vowels, syllables, templates,… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 12] 2014. vii, 377 pp.

The Regularity of the 'Irregular' Verbs and Nouns in English

Elena Even-Simkin and Yishai Tobin

This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity. The innovative sign-oriented analysis and… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 66] 2013. xvii, 273 pp.

The Initiation of Sound Change: Perception, production, and social factors

Edited by Maria-Josep Solé and Daniel Recasens

The origins of sound change is one of the oldest and most challenging questions in the study of language. The goal of this volume is to examine current approaches to sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 323] 2012. x, 250 pp.

Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents

Edited by Randall Gess, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg

This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical, social, and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 11] 2012. vii, 397 pp.

Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools

Véronique Lacoste

This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an… read more

[Creole Language Library, 42] 2012. xiv, 293 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.

Where Do Phonological Features Come From?: Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories

Edited by G. Nick Clements and Rachid Ridouane

This volume offers a timely reconsideration of the function, content, and origin of phonological features, in a set of papers that is theoretically diverse yet thematically strongly coherent. Most of the papers were originally presented at the International Conference "Where Do Features Come From?"… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 6] 2011. xv, 347 pp.

Consonant Structure and Prevocalization

Natalie Operstein

This monograph proposes a new interpretation of the intrasegmental structure of consonants and provides the first systematic intra- and cross-linguistic study of consonant prevocalization. The proposed model represents consonants as inherently bigestural and makes strong predictions that are… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 312] 2010. x, 234 pp.

Loan Phonology

Edited by Andrea Calabrese and W. Leo Wetzels

For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 307] 2009. vii, 273 pp. | open access

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.

Phonology: A cognitive grammar introduction

Geoffrey S. Nathan

This textbook introduces the reader to the field of phonology, from allophones to faithfulness and exemplars. It assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and includes a brief review chapter on phonetics. It is written within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, but covers a wide range of… read more

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 3] 2008. x, 171 pp.

Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology

Edited by Pilar Prieto, Joan Mascaró and Maria-Josep Solé

This volume is a collection of cutting-edge research papers written by well-known researchers in the field of Romance phonetics and phonology. An important goal of this book is to bridge the gap between traditional Romance linguistics — with its long and rich tradition in data collection,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 282] 2007. xvi, 262 pp.

Voicing in Dutch: (De)voicing – phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics

Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer and Erik Jan van der Torre

This volume focuses on the phonology, phonetics and psycholinguistics of voicing-related phenomena in Dutch. Dutch phonology has played a touchstone role in the past few decades where competing phonological theories regarding laryngeal representation have been concerned. Debates have focused on the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 286] 2007. x, 186 pp.

What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness

Edited by Martina Penke and Anette Rosenbach

What counts as evidence in linguistics? This question is addressed by the contributions to the present volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Studies in Language 28:3 (2004). Focusing on the innateness debate, what is illustrated is how formal and functional approaches to linguistics… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 7] 2007. x, 297 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

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 234] 2003. x, 262 pp.

Phonology in the 1980’s

Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts

This volume brings together a number of ground-breaking papers in the theory of phonology. read more

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 4] 1981. viii, 647 pp.

Essays on the Sound Pattern of English

Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts and Geoffrey K. Pullum

This book is a collection of readings in phonological theory with special reference to English. The essays it contains are all concerned to a significant extent with discussion and criticism of the theory of phonology developed by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle in their monograph The Sound Pattern… read more

[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 1] 1975. x, 580