Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Phonetics & Phonology

The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic shift in the ontology of Japan's linguistic make-up. Ryukyuan linguistics needs to be established as an independent field of study with its own research agenda and objects. This handbook delineates that the UNESCO classification is now well established and adequate. Linguists working on the Ryukyuan languages are well advised to refute the ontological status of the Ryukyuan languages as dialects. The Ryukyuan languages constitute a branch of...

Las Actas recogen ca. 240 comunicaciones, divididas en ocho secciones: 1. Fonetica y fonologia, 2. Morfologia, 3. Sintaxis, semantica y pragmatica, 4. Semantica lexica, lexicologia y onomastica, 5. Edicion y critica textual, 6. Retorica, poetica y teoria literaria, 7. Linguistica aplicada, 8. Historia de la linguistica. A ellas se unen cuatro conferencias plenarias y dos mesas redondas. Ofrecen un panorama de temas viejos y modernos de la Romanistica abordados desde distintas visiones teoricas y son muestra del aporte que la disciplina puede hacer al desarrollo de la linguistica y la...

The universalist view that acquisition of phonology is guided by universal principles has been the dominant position for decades. More recently, an alternative view has brought into focus the relationship between developmental markedness and language-specific input frequencies. With entirely original chapters on non-ambient-like productions by typically and atypically developing children, and second language learners, Unusual Productions in Phonology delves deeply into these competing explanations to show that patterns observed do not uniquely lend themselves to one or the other...

The universalist view that acquisition of phonology is guided by universal principles has been the dominant position for decades. More recently, an alternative view has brought into focus the relationship between developmental markedness and language-specific input frequencies. With entirely original chapters on non-ambient-like productions by typically and atypically developing children, and second language learners, Unusual Productions in Phonology delves deeply into these competing explanations to show that patterns observed do not uniquely lend themselves to one or the other...

Historical Corpus Research on Spoken Language shows how a historical spoken corpus can illuminate the nature of spoken language as well as the attitudes, values and behaviour of a specific community represented in a corpus.

Utilising a corpus featuring data compiled during a sociological and anthropological study of the Bolton working class, 1937-1940, this data provides insightful evidence about dialect use in society. Showing how information on informal spoken language can still be gathered and examined from material collected before the advent of sophisticated recording equipment and...