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Neutralization
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 30.00Provides in-depth, nuanced and critical analyses of many theoretical approaches to neutralization in phonology. more...
Underlying Representations
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 30.00A comprehensive overview of theories of the mental representation of the sounds of language. more...
Lenition and Contrast
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions and functional (meaning maintenance related) considerations. Carefully collecting numerous inventories of consonants, this collection is likely to become an important resource... more...
Strength Relations in Phonology
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00This collection of papers explores the theme of phonological strength. The general notion of strength plays a central role in explaining a variety of apparently disparate phonological effects relating to language acquisition, tone and pitch accent patterns, as well as segmental distribution. The authors analyze data from a wide range of languages and... more...
The Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 42.00An original account of both the logic and history of contrast in phonology. more...
Hispano-romanisches Namenbuch
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 405.00The introduction provides an overview of medieval personal nomenclature and of linguistic structures. There are some 110 entries in the dictionary; besides commentaries on cultural and linguistic history, they contain representative lists of instances of the names from editions of medieval documents. The commentaries deal with etymology, the motives... more...
Phonology in Perception
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 182.00This book investigates the extent to which phonological knowledge plays a role in speech perception. The speech perception process is formalized within the theoretical frameworks of Natural Phonology, Optimality Theory, and the Neigbourhood Activation Model. Examples come from the perception of segments, stress, and intonation in the fields of loanword... more...
A Reader in Sociophonetics
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00Sociophonetics is a sub-branch of phonetics that has attracted a great deal of attention recently. Advances in speech science and technological simulations allow increasingly sophisticated studies of language contact and change. Particularly at the level of pronunciation, these studies show that language variety is robust and socially embedded. Although... more...
Grammar of Spoken English Discourse
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 140.00David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due to his untimely death. Gerard O'Grady picks up the baton in this book and tests the description of used language against a spoken corpus. He incorporates findings from the last decade of corpus linguistics... more...
Conditions on Phonological Government
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 46.00This book represents a major development in the analysis of phonological processes. more...









