?This book addresses the subject of emotional speech, especially its encoding and decoding process during interactive communication, based on an improved version of Brunswik’s Lens Model. The process
Explore the ins and outs of A to Z in an educational setting in this innovative picture book from the Caldecott Honor–winning creator ofAlphabet City and A Is for Art.Imagine a school. Any school. Be
This book examines some of the ways in which linguists can express what native speakers know about the sound system of their language.Intended for the absolute beginner, it requires no previous backgr
The book is concerned with the acquisition of English phonology, both segmental and suprasegmental, by learners of English as a second language, as a third language and by speakers of a postcolonial (
English is pronounced in many ways differently from all the other languages.As a result, very often English as a Foreign Language Speakers have difficulties in making themselves understood by the Nati
This helpful addition to the bestselling Made Easy series of? workbooks has been designed to help Canadian children develop strong? English skills and boost their word power. Imaginative, 10-minute? p
This work, first published in 1980, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. This study conc
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 si
The key to effective fifth grade writing is vocabulary and descriptive language — and this workbook will help students become excellent communicators. This workbook promotes:v Language skillsv Compos
Fun, fresh, and focused learning. Helps develop strong English skills.Supporting school curricula, this engaging workbook helps your child learn and understand spelling concepts. Packed with carefully
Fun, fresh, and focused learning. Helps develop strong English skills.Boost your child's word power and lay the groundwork for academic success with this new addition to the acclaimed10 Minutes A Day
The notion underlying the volume is that formal grammars need both a theory of computation (or derivation) and a theory of representation, and that the former has been attracting almost all of the att
This book intends to place Nick Clements’ contribution to Feature Theory in a historical and contemporary context and to introduce some of his unpublished manuscripts as well as new work with colleagu
Anne Toner provides an original account of the history of ellipsis marks - dots, dashes and asterisks - in English literary writing. Highlighting ever-renewing interest in these forms of non-completion in literature, Toner demonstrates how writers have striven to get closer to the hesitancies and interruptions of spoken language, the indeterminacies of thought, and the successive or fragmented nature of experience by means of these textual symbols. While such punctuation marks may seem routine today, this book describes their emergence in early modern drama and examines the relationship between authors, printers and grammarians in advancing or obstructing the standardisation of the marks. Their development is explored through close study of the works of major English writers, including Jonson, Shakespeare, Richardson, Sterne, Meredith and Woolf, along with visual illustrations of their usage. In particular, Toner traces the evolution of ellipsis marks in the novel, a form highly recept
The Handbook of English Pronunciation presents a comprehensive exploration of English pronunciation with essential topics for applied linguistics researchers and teachers, including language acquisiti
The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody contr
Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading experts on th
This handbook details the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese, focusing on standard Tokyo Japanese. The 18 chapters address phonological processes unique to Sino-Japanese and
When we speak, we configure the vocal tract which shapes the visible motions of the face and the patterning of the audible speech acoustics. Similarly, we use these visible and audible behaviors to perceive speech. This book showcases a broad range of research investigating how these two types of signals are used in spoken communication, how they interact, and how they can be used to enhance the realistic synthesis and recognition of audible and visible speech. The volume begins by addressing two important questions about human audiovisual performance: how auditory and visual signals combine to access the mental lexicon and where in the brain this and related processes take place. It then turns to the production and perception of multimodal speech and how structures are coordinated within and across the two modalities. Finally, the book presents overviews and recent developments in machine-based speech recognition and synthesis of AV speech.
