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  • Elements of Acoustic Phonetics

    This revised and expanded edition of a classic textbook provides a concise introduction to basic concepts of acoustics and digital speech processing that are important to linguists, phoneticians, and speech scientists. The second edition includes four new chapters that cover new experimental techniques in acoustic phonetics made possible by the use of computers. Assuming no background in physics ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vowels and Consonants

    This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, and expanded coverage of topics such as speech technology.Describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languagesWritten by the late Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

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  • The Phonetic Guide to French

    Learn French in About a Year

    by Matthew Lawry ...
    This book is about learning the phrases and sentences and getting to grips with saying the language, without going into the grammar first. In that way you can have fun in learning how to say certain things and also you do not come up against stumbling blocks and frustrations.The idea behind this thinking was because when I was a child my parents used to tell me words before they taught me how to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Introducing Linguistics

    A Graphic Guide

    by R. L. Trask ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Anatomy of Chinese

    Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

    by Perry Link ...
    During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to “smash the four olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted “We want to see Chairman Mao,” they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Introducing Phonology

    by David Odden ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
    Designed for students with only a basic knowledge of linguistics, this leading textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonology, the study of sound patterns in language. It teaches in a step-by-step fashion the logical techniques of phonological analysis and the fundamental theories that underpin it. This thoroughly revised and updated edition teaches students how to analyze ... Read more

    $48.39 USD

  • Articulatory Phonetics

    Articulatory Phonetics presents a concise and non-technical introduction to the physiological processes involved in producing sounds in human speech.Traces the path of the speech production system through to the point where simple vocal sounds are produced, covering the nervous system, and muscles, respiration, and phonationIntroduces more complex anatomical concepts of articulatory phonetics and ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • I Can Do It Myself

    Phonics

    by Sharon Clonts ...
    Introducing I Can Do It Myself Phonics Reading Program With all the Phonics and Reading Programs available why do we at I Can Do It Myself have the audacity to put out yet another one? The answer to that lies with the I Can Do It program itself. It brings to you a completely different outlook and an utterly fresh approach to instructing a child in Phonics and Reading. I Can Do It is like no other ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Phonological Development

    The First Two Years

    Drawing on major research developments in the field, Vihman has updated and extensively revised the 1996 edition of her classic text to provide a thorough and stimulating overview of current studies of child production and perception and early word learning.Offers a full survey of the thinking on how babies develop phonological knowledgeProvides a much needed update on the field – one in which ... Read more

    $57.00 USD

  • The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English

    The Blount Guide A logical phonetic manual for: 1. - Parents and teachers of reading to small children. 2. - Foreigners who wish to pronounce English correctly with instructions in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese and German. 3. - Spelling teachers. 4. -.Home schoolers 5. - Teachers of children with learning disabilities. 6. - Writers of books for children who need to know which words are ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Phonological Mind

    by Iris Berent ...
    Humans instinctively form words by weaving patterns of meaningless speech elements. Moreover, we do so in specific, regular ways. We contrast dogs and gods, favour blogs to lbogs. We begin forming sound-patterns at birth and, like songbirds, we do so spontaneously, even in the absence of an adult model. We even impose these phonological patterns on invented cultural technologies such as reading ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Speech Sounds

    Series series Language Workbooks
    Speech Sounds:* helps develop the fundamental skills of the phonetician* investigates the various aspects involved in the production of speech sounds* uses data-based material to reinforce each new concept* includes examples from a wide range of languages* provides dozens of exercises with solutions and cross-references* can complement existing course or textbook material.The second edition of ... Read more

    $39.99 USD