Onsets

Author : Nina Topintzi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113948611X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Onsets written by Nina Topintzi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the 'onset', i.e. the consonant(s) before the vowel of a syllable, is critical within phonology. While phonologists have examined the segmental behaviour of onsets, their prosodic status has instead been largely overlooked. In fact, most previous accounts have stipulated that onsets are insignificant when it comes to the 'heaviness' of syllables. In this book Nina Topintzi presents a new theory of onsets, arguing for their fundamental role in the structure of language both in the underlying and surface representation, unlike previous assumptions. To capture the weight behaviour of onsets, a novel account is proposed that relates their interaction with voicing, tone and stress. Using numerous case-studies and data from a variety of languages and phenomena (including stress, compensatory lengthening, gemination and word minimality), the book introduces a model that reflects the true behaviour of onsets, demonstrating profound implications for syllable and weight theories.

Author : Edward Fry
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
ISBN 13 : 0743937112
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Fry's Word Sorts: Working with Onsets and Rimes written by Edward Fry and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridge the gap between phonemic awareness and beginning phonics! Pre-readers and beginning readers practice letter and phoneme recognition by cutting out word or picture cards and sorting them according to each lesson's focus. Activities require very little reading ability.

Author : Jette G. Hansen Edwards
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441140581
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acquiring a Non-Native Phonology written by Jette G. Hansen Edwards and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the phonological development of a family of L2 English learners. It is the first full-length book that focuses on a tightly-knit group of learners' acquisition of phonology over a longitudinal timeframe, and the first book to study both social and linguistic factors across that time period. Jette G. Hansen analyses this data gathered from actual language learners in the light of recent theory, as well as challenging aspects of current thinking on the subject of second language acquisition. Acquiring a Non-Native Phonology therefore makes an important and original contribution to the field and provides an in-depth analysis and discussion of the developmental processes in acquiring a non-native sound system which has not previously been presented. The book is aimed at academics interested in second language acquisition, and researchers studying phonology in general.

Author : Matthew Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135922268
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syllable Weight written by Matthew Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of 400 languages, it is shown that the traditional conception that languages are internally consistent in their weight criteria across weight-based processes is not corroborated by the cross-linguistic survey. Rather than being consistent across phenomena within individual languages, weight turns out to be sensitive to the particular processes involved such that different phenomena display different distributions in weight criteria. The book goes on to explore the motivations behind the process-specific nature of weight, showing that phonetic factors explain much of the variation in weight criteria between phenomena and also the variation in criteria between languages for a single process. The book is unlike other studies in combining an extensive typological survey with detailed phonetic analysis of many languages. The finding that the widely studied phenomenon of syllable weight is not a unified phenomenon, contrary to the established view, is a significant result for the field of theoretical phonology. The book is also an important contribution to the field of phonetically-driven phonology, since it establishes a close link between the phonology of weight and various quantitative phonetic parameters.

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Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Author : Stemberger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004653406
Total Pages : 807 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Phonological Development written by Stemberger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining a collection of data on phonological acquisition with attention to Optimality Theory, this book blends the studies of linguistics, psycholinguistics, and speech-language pathology in reference to phonological development. It also contains an evaluation of competing theories and presents a view of non-linear phonology.

Author : Jason I. Brown
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 146659358X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematics for the Liberal Arts written by Jason I. Brown and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook teaches everyday mathematics topics to non-math majors at the undergraduate level. Through numerous examples and more than 600 exercises, students learn how to use math seamlessly in a variety of practical areas, from conversion factors, statistics, visualization, money, and risk to games, art, music, and humor. The text develops a logical, real-world approach to data and reasoning. Real-life stories in each chapter capture students' interest and motivate them to work through the math. Ancillaries are available on the author's website.

Author : Susan A. Brady
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135435898
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phonological Processes in Literacy written by Susan A. Brady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume contains the edited proceedings of a symposium held in honor of Isabelle Y. Liberman, whose teaching and writings laid the foundation for contemporary views of reading disability. Her work has influenced ways of thinking about the nature of the problem and ways of working with children and adults who experience unusual difficulty in learning to read. The symposium covered four themes that were central to Dr. Liberman's research on reading acquisition and disability: the development of phonological awareness, the relationship between phonological awareness and success in learning to read and write, the investigation of other phonological processes associated with reading and writing performance, and the implications of current research on these matters for reading instruction. The text includes a paper on each topic, followed by commentaries which introduce additional research findings and theoretical considerations -- all by leading researchers in the field.

Author : Godfried T. Toussaint
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466512024
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geometry of Musical Rhythm written by Godfried T. Toussaint and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geometry of Musical Rhythm: What Makes a "Good" Rhythm Good? is the first book to provide a systematic and accessible computational geometric analysis of the musical rhythms of the world. It explains how the study of the mathematical properties of musical rhythm generates common mathematical problems that arise in a variety of seemingly disparate fields. For the music community, the book also introduces the distance approach to phylogenetic analysis and illustrates its application to the study of musical rhythm. Accessible to both academics and musicians, the text requires a minimal set of prerequisites. Emphasizing a visual geometric treatment of musical rhythm and its underlying structures, the author—an eminent computer scientist and music theory researcher—presents new symbolic geometric approaches and often compares them to existing methods. He shows how distance geometry and phylogenetic analysis can be used in comparative musicology, ethnomusicology, and evolutionary musicology research. The book also strengthens the bridge between these disciplines and mathematical music theory. Many concepts are illustrated with examples using a group of six distinguished rhythms that feature prominently in world music, including the clave son. Exploring the mathematical properties of good rhythms, this book offers an original computational geometric approach for analyzing musical rhythm and its underlying structures. With numerous figures to complement the explanations, it is suitable for a wide audience, from musicians, composers, and electronic music programmers to music theorists and psychologists to computer scientists and mathematicians. It can also be used in an undergraduate course on music technology, music and computers, or music and mathematics.