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English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 185.00This work provides a detailed account of word level pronunciation in England and Scotland between 1700 and 1900. All major and minor source materials are presented in depth and there is a close discussion of contemporary attitudes to pronunciation standards and orthographic reform. The materials are presented in three chronological periods: 1700-1750,... more...
Consonant Change in English Worldwide
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 125.00Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in synchronic varieties, thus defining consonantal change... more...
Evolutionary Phonology
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 69.00This groundbreaking book explores the nature of sound change in human language over the past 7000 8000 years. It presents a new approach to the problem of how genetically unrelated languages can often show similar sound patterns, and why there are many exceptions to the patterns often regarded as universal. more...
Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception
IOS Press 2006; US$ 146.00That speech is a dynamic process strikes as a tautology: whether from the standpoint of the talker, the listener, or the engineer, speech is an action, a sound, or a signal continuously changing in time. This book presents a collection of papers which looks at speech as a dynamic process and highlights its particularities. more...
The Handbook of English Linguistics
Wiley 2008; US$ 232.95The Handbook of English Linguistics is a collection of articles written by leading specialists on all core areas of English linguistics that provides a state-of-the-art account of research in the field. Brings together articles from the core areas of English linguistics, including syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, as well as variation,... more...
Phonology in Context
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 41.00Phonology in Context takes a fresh look at phonology in a range of real-world contexts that go beyond traditional concerns and challenge existing assumptions and practices. It brings together research and theory from a range of research areas to suggest new directions for the field. more...
Strength and Weakness at the Interface
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 182.00This thorough study of the expression of contrast in the world's vowel systems examines phonetic and phonological differences between so-called strong and weak positions, bringing the full range of positional neutralization data to bear on central questions at the interface between phonetics and phonology. Evidence is drawn from diverse sources, bringing... more...
Laboratory Phonology 8
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 210.00The Eighth Conference on Laboratory Phonology (held in New Haven, CT) continued the series' tradition of bringing together experts from different subfields by inviting papers on the phonology of signed and spoken languages. A major goal of this topic was to begin to uncover the nature of the human phonological capacity that underlies both types of... more...
Optimality Theory
Wiley 2008; US$ 142.95This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints. Final version of the widely circulated 1993 Technical Report that was the seminal work in Optimality Theory, never before available... more...
Optimality Theory in Phonology
Wiley 2008; US$ 174.95Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader is a collection of readings on this important new theory by leading figures in the field, including a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s never-before-published Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar . Compiles the most important readings about Optimality Theory... more...









