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Das unbetonte finale -e besitzt mannigfache Funktionen in mittelhochdeutscher Zeit -- sein Schwund ist folgenschwer. Eine Untersuchung dieses Phanomens fehlte bislang fur das Mittelfrankische, das dort im Zusammenhang mit der Phonologisierung der Tonakzente eine besondere Rolle spielt. Um diesem Mangel abzuhelfen, wird die e-Apokope im Ripuarischen auf der Basis eines eigens an die Anforderungen der Untersuchung zugeschnittenen Korpus untersucht. In einem gestuften Auswertungsverfahren werden auch prosodische, satzphonetische und morphologische Erklarungen fur das...

This book is open access under a CC BY licence. It spans the areas of assessment, second language acquisition (SLA) and pronunciation and examines topical issues and challenges that relate to formal and informal assessments of second language (L2) speech in classroom, research and real-world contexts. It showcases insights from assessing other skills (e.g. listening and writing) and highlights perspectives from research in speech sciences, SLA, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, including lingua franca communication, with concrete implications for pronunciation assessment. This...

Das Hamburgische wird von einem Sprachkontakt zwischen Niederdeutsch und Hochdeutsch gepragt, der zu einer wechselseitigen strukturellen Beeinflussung beider Sprachen fuhrte. Die Beitrage zeigen das Spektrum regionalsprachlicher Forschungsansatze, von variationslinguistischen Studien bis hin zu Ansatzen der aktuellen Sprachbiographieforschung und der Betrachtung sprachlicher Variation als Komponente eines umfassenderen semiotischen Systems als Enregisterment. Durch einen solchen multiperspektivischen Ansatz lassen sich die variativen Auspragungen der Stadtsprache und die Mechanismen...

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneous speech, as well as texts read aloud. The book suggests alternative ways of examining the subject and primarily uses data derived from Edinburgh speech, which is explicitly compared with descriptions of standard southern English (RP).

The book critically examines many conventional assumptions made about the formal features of intonation, particularly tonic or primary stress, and about the functions of intonation, specifically rising...

This dissertation, first published in 1980, is concerned with the role of the syllable in generative grammar. Kahn argues that the syllable is a necessary element in phonological descriptions by identifying aspects of phonology that seem to call for analysis in terms of syllabic structure and demonstrating the superiority of syllabic analyses over possible alternative solutions. This title will be of interest to students of English language and linguistics.

This book, first published in 1984, presents a series of analysis of colloquial spoken language, to illustrate some of the variety of phonological features of British English. These studies provide significant insights into linguistic varieties and their inter-relationship as a phonological system and into social differentiation as reflected in linguistic variety.

The main part of the book is devoted to a presentation, in transcription, of the speech of informants from a number of localities and a discussion of the main phonological features exemplified thereby. An attempt was made...