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Describing Spoken English [[electronic resource] ] : An Introduction
Describing Spoken English [[electronic resource] ] : An Introduction
Autore Kreidler Charles W
Pubbl/distr/stampa Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (251 p.)
Disciplina 421/.52
428.1
Soggetto topico English language
Linguistics
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 9786610328468
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Symbols and typographic conventions; The pronunciation of English; Speech; The structure of language; English consonants; English vowels; Syllables; Strong and weak syllables; Word stress; Stress in compound words and phrases; The role of accent in discourse; Intonation; Morphemes that vary in form; Feedback on exercises; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910450076503321
Kreidler Charles W  
Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2002
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Describing Spoken English [[electronic resource] ] : An Introduction
Describing Spoken English [[electronic resource] ] : An Introduction
Autore Kreidler Charles W
Pubbl/distr/stampa Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (251 p.)
Disciplina 421/.52
428.1
Soggetto topico English language
Linguistics
ISBN 1-280-32846-0
1-134-74708-X
1-134-74707-1
0-203-27857-7
0-415-15095-7
9786610328468
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Symbols and typographic conventions; The pronunciation of English; Speech; The structure of language; English consonants; English vowels; Syllables; Strong and weak syllables; Word stress; Stress in compound words and phrases; The role of accent in discourse; Intonation; Morphemes that vary in form; Feedback on exercises; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910783620203321
Kreidler Charles W  
Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2002
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English with a Latin beat [[electronic resource] ] : studies in Portuguese/Spanish-English interphonology / / edited by Barbara O. Baptista, Michael Alan Watkins
English with a Latin beat [[electronic resource] ] : studies in Portuguese/Spanish-English interphonology / / edited by Barbara O. Baptista, Michael Alan Watkins
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006
Descrizione fisica vi, 214 p. : ill
Disciplina 421/.52
Altri autori (Persone) BaptistaBarbara O
WatkinsMichael Alan
Collana Studies in bilingualism
Soggetto topico English language - Pronunciation by foreign speakers
English language - Spoken English
English language - Study and teaching - Spanish speakers
English language - Study and teaching - Portuguese speakers
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-282-15491-5
9786612154911
90-272-9279-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910454651403321
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006
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English with a Latin beat [[electronic resource] ] : studies in Portuguese/Spanish-English interphonology / / edited by Barbara O. Baptista, Michael Alan Watkins
English with a Latin beat [[electronic resource] ] : studies in Portuguese/Spanish-English interphonology / / edited by Barbara O. Baptista, Michael Alan Watkins
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006
Descrizione fisica vi, 214 p. : ill
Disciplina 421/.52
Altri autori (Persone) BaptistaBarbara O
WatkinsMichael Alan
Collana Studies in bilingualism
Soggetto topico English language - Pronunciation by foreign speakers
English language - Spoken English
English language - Study and teaching - Spanish speakers
English language - Study and teaching - Portuguese speakers
ISBN 1-282-15491-5
9786612154911
90-272-9279-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910782049803321
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006
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English with a Latin beat : studies in Portuguese/Spanish-English interphonology / / edited by Barbara O. Baptista, Michael Alan Watkins
English with a Latin beat : studies in Portuguese/Spanish-English interphonology / / edited by Barbara O. Baptista, Michael Alan Watkins
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006
Descrizione fisica vi, 214 p. : ill
Disciplina 421/.52
Altri autori (Persone) BaptistaBarbara O
WatkinsMichael Alan
Collana Studies in bilingualism
Soggetto topico English language - Pronunciation by foreign speakers
English language - Spoken English
English language - Study and teaching - Spanish speakers
English language - Study and teaching - Portuguese speakers
ISBN 9786612154911
9781282154919
1282154915
9789027292797
9027292795
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto English with a Latin Beat -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- The scope of this collection -- Theoretical models of L2 phonological acquisition -- Overview of the papers -- Segmental-level studies -- Syllable-level studies -- Prosodic-level studies: Stress and rhythm -- Some general implications -- Acknowledgment -- References -- I. Segmental-level studies: Vowels -- Adult phonetic learning of a second language vowel system -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 2.1. Participants -- 2.2. Procedure -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Construction of the early IL vowel system -- 3.2. Evolution of the IL vowel system -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Appendix A: English Corpus -- Appendix B: Portuguese Corpus -- The phonological and phonetic development of new vowel contrasts in Spanish learners of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The experiment -- 2.1. Subjects and materials -- 2.2. Procedure -- 2.3. Results for the /I/-/i/ phonological contrast (AC continuum) -- 2.4. Results for the phonetic treatment of the contrast: Cue weighting and reliance -- 2.5. Patterns in L2 individual phonetic perception -- 3. Discussion -- 3.1. Linguistic or auditory strategies in L2 perception -- 3.2. Different performance by four L2 subjects -- 3.3. L2 performance patterns and a possible stage-like development -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Age and native language influence on the perception of English vowels -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 2.1. Subjects -- 2.2. Stimuli -- 2.3. Procedure -- 2.4. Analyses -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- II. Syllable-level studies: Codas and onset clusters -- The influence of voicing and sonority relationships on the production of English final consonants -- 1. Introduction.
2. Single-consonant codas in Portuguese-English interlanguage -- 3. Method -- 4. Results -- 4.1. Markedness of the target segment -- 4.2. Influence of phonological environment -- 5. Theoretical implications -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Perception and production of vowel paragoge by Brazilian EFL students -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 2.1. Production test -- 2.2. Perception test -- 3. Results and discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- The sonority cycle and the acquisition of complex onsets -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background on the syllable -- 2.1. The length of margins and markedness -- 2.2. Sonority sequencing -- 2.3. Sonority cycle -- 3. Study one -- 3.1. The reduction of margins -- 3.2. Hypotheses -- 3.3. Method -- 3.4. Results -- 3.5. Discussion -- 4. Study two -- 4.1. Background -- 4.2. Studies testing sonority sequencing -- 4.3. Hypotheses -- 4.4. Method -- 4.5. Results -- 4.6. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The influence of voicing on the production of initial /s/-clusters by Brazilian learners -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Influence of length of cluster -- 3.2. Influence of the sonority sequencing principle -- 3.3. Influence of environment -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Production of English initial /s/-clusters by speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and Argentine Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Review of the literature -- 3. Method -- 3.1. Participants -- 3.2. Material -- 3.3. Transcription -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1. Length of cluster -- 4.2. Internal structure of cluster: /s/+obstruent versus /s/+sonorant -- 4.3. Internal structure of cluster: /s/+nasal versus /s/+lateral -- 4.4. Voicing assimilation of /s/ + sonorant clusters by BP speakers -- 4.5. Phonological environment -- 5. Conclusion.
Acknowledgements -- References -- III. Prosodic-level studies: Stress and rhythm -- Variability in the use of weak forms of prepositions -- 1. Vowel reduction -- 2. Method -- 2.1. Data collection -- 2.2. Variables -- 3. Results -- 4. General discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Perception of double stress by Spanish learners of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Perception of stress shift -- 3.2. Perception of stress strength -- 4. General discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- The production of compound stress by Brazilian learners of English -- 1. Compound and phrasal stress -- 2. Method -- 2.1. Participants -- 2.2. Production task -- 2.3. Procedures -- 2.4. Data analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Stress pattern -- 3.2. Constituent length -- 3.3. Stress pattern and length of token -- 4. Discussion of results -- 4.1. Compounds -- 4.2. Phrasal-stressed tokens -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Appendix -- Examples of sentences used in the production test -- Author index -- Subject index -- The series Studies in Bilingualism.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910969897903321
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006
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The pronunciation of English [[electronic resource] ] : a course book / / Charles W. Kreidler
The pronunciation of English [[electronic resource] ] : a course book / / Charles W. Kreidler
Autore Kreidler Charles W. <1924->
Edizione [2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (326 p.)
Disciplina 421.52
421/.52
Soggetto topico English language - Pronunciation
English language - Pronunciation by foreign speakers
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-470-79734-7
1-281-32145-1
9786611321451
0-470-75926-7
0-470-75923-2
Classificazione 18.04
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The Pronunciation of English: A Course Book; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; About this Book; 1 Language and Speech; 1.1 Language variation; 1.2 A very brief history of the English language; 1.3 Speech and language; 1.4 Phonological analysis; 1.5 Summary; Notes; 2 Sound ... and Voice; 2.1 Hearing; 2.2 Energy, vibration, and medium; 2.3 The measurement of vibrations; 2A Exercise: sound waves; 2.4 Resonance; 2.5 Air in motion; 2.6 The human voice; 2.7 The vocal cords; 2.8 The vocal tract; 2.9 Kinds of speech sounds; 2B Exercise: classes of sounds and features; 2.10 Summary
2.11 Addendum: a note on redundancy2C Exercise: redundancy statements; 2A Feedback; 2B Feedback; 2C Feedback; Notes; 3 Consonants; 3A Preliminary exercise: identifying consonants by matching; 3.1 The feature [consonantal]; 3.2 Lip consonants (labials); 3.3 Tongue-tip consonants (apicals); 3B Questions about features; 3.4 Tongue-front consonants (laminals); 3.5 Tongue-back consonants (dorsals); 3.6 Summary chart; 3C Questions about feature differences; 3.7 Articulators or points of articulation?; 3.8 The feature [lateral]; 3.9 Summary; 3D Exercise: practice with symbols; 3A Feedback
3B Feedback3C Feedback; 3D Feedback; Notes; 4 Vowels and Glides; 4A Preliminary exercise; 4.1 Dialect differences; 4.2 Vowel features; 4.3 A general inventory and particular inventories; 4.4 Phonetic descriptions; 4.5 The vowel inventories of specific dialects; 4.6 The incidence of vowels; 4B Practice with transcription; 4.7 The glides; 4C Practice with phoneme classes; 4D Exploring matters of vowel incidence; 4.8 Summary; 4A Feedback; 4B Feedback; 4C Feedback; 4D Feedback; Notes; 5 Syllables and Stress; 5.1 Syllables; 5.2 Syllable structure; 5A Exploring syllable onsets
5A Feedback and comment5B Exploring syllable codas; 5B Feedback and comment; 5.3 Strong and weak syllables; 5.4 Syllable division; 5.5 Suffixes and stress; 5C Exercise on stress in related words; 5.6 Compounds and some other words; 5D Exercise on certain word endings; 5.7 Identifying the vowels of weak syllables; 5E Exercise and comment: final /I, U, o/; 5F Exercise and comment: /I, U/ before vowels; 5G Exercise and comment: contrast of /B/ and /C/I; 5.8 Syllabic consonants; 5H Practice with syllabic consonants; 5.9 Summary; 5C Feedback; 5D Feedback; Notes; 6 Phonotactics
6.1 Word-initial position6A Problem: initial clusters; 6A Feedback and discussion; 6.2 A note regarding /j/; 6.3 Contrast and variation; 6.4 Word-final position; 6B Questions: final clusters; 6B Feedback and discussion; 6C Clusters of three consonants; 6.5 Word-medial position; 6D Question: medial clusters; 6E Practice: dividing into syllables; 6.6 Borrowed words; 6.7 Omission and insertion of a consonant; 6.8 Limits on vowel occurrences; 6.9 Free vowels and checked vowels; 6F Investigating some constraints; 6.10 Functional loads; 6.11 Summary; 6C Feedback; 6D Feedback; 6E Feedback
6F Feedback
Record Nr. UNINA-9910145749403321
Kreidler Charles W. <1924->  
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004
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Spellbound : Untangling English Spelling
Spellbound : Untangling English Spelling
Autore Burling Robbins
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (186 pages)
Disciplina 421/.52
Soggetto topico Spellers
English language - Orthography and spelling
ISBN 9781781793350
1781793352
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I -- 1 What Needs Fixing? -- 2 What Happened to English Spelling? -- 3 Reading, Spelling, and Illiteracy -- 4 Reforms for Other Languages -- 5 Failed Reforms for English -- 6 Is Reform Possible? -- Part II -- Introduction -- 7 The Criteria for a Better Spelling for English -- 8 Consonants -- 9 Stressed Vowels -- 10 The Unstressed Schwa -- 11 How Might It Look? -- 12 English Spelling: Optimal or Absurd? -- Appendix: The Table of Vowels -- Bibliography -- Index
Altri titoli varianti Spellbound
Record Nr. UNINA-9911026149803321
Burling Robbins  
Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2016
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