Phonetics & Phonology

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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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic: Cross-linguistic and bilingual studies

Edited by Christoph Gabriel and Conxita Lleó

Languages differ regarding both the ways they group words into phrases and the surface cues they use to indicate relevant phrasing patterns. Modeling intonation in as many languages as possible has become a central goal of theoretical and empirical linguistics. However, intonational research has… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 10] 2011. viii, 237 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.

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

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.