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English Speech Rhythm
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1993; US$ 180.00This 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 small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the... more...
The prepositional passive in English
De Gruyter 1979; US$ 133.00The prepositional passive in English a semantic-syntactic analysis, with a lexicon of prepositional verbs more...
Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast
De Gruyter 2000; US$ 168.00English, today's most important international language, is probably the best-described and most widely studied language in linguistic research. This is because there is an immense body of descriptive and theoretical publications and especially because of the existence of large computer corpora for Present-Day English, as well as for older periods... more...
Studies in Interactional Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 188.00Current interactional linguistic research appears to be crystallizing around systematic themes, which are all represented in this collection of papers. In the first section, where the relation between language and interaction is viewed from the perspective of language structure, several articles deal with the potential of a single structure for both... more...
Prosody in Conversation
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 83.00These essays study the role of prosody in everyday English, German, and Italian conversation. more...
Language in Time
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 164.99The authors promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that spoken words are, in fact, objects and that unless linguists consider how they are delivered within the context of time, they will not capture the full meaning of situated language use. more...
Sound Patterns in Interaction
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 195.00This 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 talk-in-interaction based on data drawn from diverse languages:... more...
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