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  • The Phonology of Consonants

    by Wm G. Bennett ...
    Series Book 147 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    The most comprehensive work on dissimilation (the avoidance or repair of combinations of similar sounds) to date, this book proposes a novel analysis that handles dissimilation as the avoidance of surface correspondence relationships. It draws on recent work in Agreement By Correspondence to show that dissimilation is a natural outcome predicted by the same theory of Surface Correspondence. The ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

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  • An Odyssey

    A Father, a Son, and an Epic

    by Daniel Mendelsohn ...
    **A New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club PickFrom award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece.**When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Australian Sign Language (Auslan)

    An introduction to sign language linguistics

    by Trevor Johnston, Adam Schembri ...
    This is first comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Auslan, the sign language of Australia. Assuming no prior background in language study, it explores each key aspect of the structure of Auslan, providing an accessible overview of its grammar (how sentences are structured), phonology (the building blocks of signs), morphology (the structure of signs), lexicon (vocabulary), semantics ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Beyond the Northlands

    Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas

    by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough ...
    In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide, where they not only raided but also traded, explored and settled ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Homer: Odyssey Books XIII and XIV

    by Homer ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    The second part of the Odyssey takes epic in new directions, giving significant roles to people of 'lower status' and their way of life: epic notions of the primacy of the aristocrat and the achievements of the Trojan War are submitted to scrutiny. Books XIII and XIV contain some of the subtlest human exchanges in the poem, as Athena and Odysseus spar with each other and Odysseus tests the quiet ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Pragmatics and Prosody in English Language Teaching

    Edited by Jesús Romero-Trillo ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume explores the elusive subject of English prosody—the stress, rhythm and intonation of the language—, and its relevance for English language teaching. Its sharp focus will be especially welcomed by teachers of English to non-native speakers, but also by scholars and researchers interested in Applied Linguistics. The book examines key issues in the development of prosody and delves into ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Phonology

    A Coursebook

    by Robert Kennedy ...
    This practical and accessibly written textbook provides a thoughtfully ordered introduction to a wide range of phonological phenomena. It contains many exercises combining classic datasets with newly compiled problems. These help the student learn to discover sound patterns nested in complex linguistic data, beginning with concrete introductory examples and stepping through a series of ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Dimensions of Phonological Stress

    Edited by Jeffrey Heinz, Rob Goedemans, Harry van der Hulst ...
    Stress and accent are central, organizing features of grammar, but their precise nature continues to be a source of mystery and wonder. These issues come to the forefront in acquisition, where the tension between the abstract mental representations and the concrete physical manifestations of stress and accent is deeply reflected. Understanding the nature of the representations of stress and accent ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Audiovisual Speech Processing

    Edited by Pascal Perrier, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, Gérard Bailly ...
    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 ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Plato: Phaedrus

    by Plato ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Ostensibly a discussion about love, the debate in the Phaedrus also encompasses the art of rhetoric and how it should be practised. This new edition contains an introductory essay outlining the argument of the dialogue as a whole and Plato's arguments about rhetoric and eros in particular. The Introduction also considers Plato's style and offers an account of the reception of the dialogue from its ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Herodotus: Histories Book V

    by Herodotus ...
    Series Book 5 - Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    One of the most important works of history in Western literature, by the freshest and liveliest of all classical Greek prose authors, Herodotus's Histories is also a key text for the study of ancient Greece and the Persian Empire. Covering a central and widely studied period of Greek history, Book V not only describes the revolt of the east Greeks against their Persian masters, which led to the ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Statistical Pronunciation Modeling for Non-Native Speech Processing

    by Rainer E. Gruhn, Wolfgang Minker, Satoshi Nakamura ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    In this work, the authors present a fully statistical approach to model non--native speakers' pronunciation. Second-language speakers pronounce words in multiple different ways compared to the native speakers. Those deviations, may it be phoneme substitutions, deletions or insertions, can be modelled automatically with the new method presented here.The methods is based on a discrete hidden Markov ... Read more

    $89.09 USD