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Salomo A. Birnbaum (1891‑1989) ist unbestrittener Pionier auf zwei groen, eng aufeinander bezogenen Forschungsgebieten, namlich der historischen jiddischen Sprachwissenschaft sowie der Palaographie des Hebraischen und aller judischen Nachfolgesprachen: 1918 veroffentlichte er die erste wissenschaftliche Grammatik des Jiddischen (vier weitere Auflagen ab 1966); in den 20er Jahren begann er ‑ ausgehend von dem Bedurfnis, mittelalterliche jiddische Manuskripte zu datieren und zu lokalisieren ‑ mit seinen palaographischen Studien, die in dem Standardwerk The Hebrew Scripts...

Salomo A. Birnbaum (1891-1989) ist unbestrittener Pionier auf zwei groen, eng aufeinander bezogenen Forschungsgebieten, namlich der historischen jiddischen Sprachwissenschaft sowie der Palaographie des Hebraischen und aller judischen Nachfolgesprachen: 1918 veroffentlichte er die erste wissenschaftliche Grammatik des Jiddischen (vier weitere Auflagen ab 1966); in den 20er Jahren begann er ‑ ausgehend von dem Bedurfnis, mittelalterliche jiddische Manuskripte zu datieren und zu lokalisieren ‑ mit seinen palaographischen Studien, die in dem Standardwerk The Hebrew Scripts...

The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines.

• Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chapters
• Addresses the important questions in the field including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation, and assesses the findings and accomplishments in these domains
• Brings together a...

This volume includes papers by leading figures in phonetics and phonology on two topics central to phonological theory: tones and phonological features. Papers address a wide range of topics bearing on tones and features including their formal representation and phonetic foundation.

David 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 study, notably concerning phrases and lexical items larger than single orthographic words and ellipsis. He demonstrates the added communicative significance that the incorporation of two systems of intonation ('Key' and 'Termination') bring to the grammar.

O'Grady reviews the...

• Describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages
• Written by the late Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, with updates by renowned forensic linguist, Sandra Ferrari Disner
• Includes numerous revisions to the discussion of speech technology and additional...

Salomo A. Birnbaum (1891 1989) is the uncontested pioneer in two large closely related research areas, namely historical Jewish linguistics and the palaeography of Hebrew and all Jewish successor languages. This collection of essays provides a cross-section through Birnbaum s life s work. Volume I contains articles on Jewish philology and a survey of additional Jewish languages and individual studies. Volume II documents the development of Hebrew palaeography, which began to be established in the period between the 1930s and 1960s.

The ORCA method completely upends traditional accent-reduction training with an intuitive approach that is like nothing you've tried before.

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