The Sounds of Language (eBook)

An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

Elizabeth C. Zsiga (Autor)

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2012 | 1. Auflage
496 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-34053-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The Sounds of Language is an introductory guide to the linguistic study of speech sounds, which provides uniquely balanced coverage of both phonology and phonetics.
* Features exercises and problem sets, as well as supporting online resources at www.wiley.com/go/zsiga, including additional discussion questions and exercises, as well as links to further resources such as sound files, video files, and useful websites
* Creates opportunities for students to practice data analysis and hypothesis testing
* Integrates data on sociolinguistic variation, first language acquisition, and second language learning
* Explores diverse topics ranging from the practical, such as how to make good digital recordings, make a palatogram, solve a phoneme/allophone problem, or read a spectrogram; to the theoretical, including the role of markedness in linguistic theory, the necessity of abstraction, features and formal notation, issues in speech perception as distinct from hearing, and modelling sociolinguistic and other variations
* Organized specifically to fit the needs of undergraduate students of phonetics and phonology, and is structured in a way which enables instructors to use the text both for a single semester phonetics and phonology course or for a two-course sequence

Autor

Elizabeth C. Zsiga is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University, where she has been a faculty member since 1994, teaching phonology and phonetics to both graduate and undergraduate students, with concentrations in theoretical, applied, and socio-linguistics. She has been published in numerous linguistics journals and books. Her research describes the sound systems of diverse languages including English, Igbo, Korean, Russian, Setswana, Serbian, and Thai.

Rezensionen

"This book covers the scientific study of speech sounds inimpressive breadth and depth. There is enough material here for twosophisticated courses or a solid one-semester introduction to bothphonetics and phonology. The writing style should please bothinstructors and students." - Maria Gouskova, New YorkUniversity

"Thoroughly accessible, and filled with illuminating examplesand exercises for students, The Sounds of Language is acomprehensive and stimulating introduction to both phoneticsand phonology." - Andrew Smith, University ofStirling

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.11.2012
• Reihe/Serie: LAWZ - Linguistics in the World
• Reihe/Serie: LAWZ - Linguistics in the World
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Linguistics • Phonologie • Phonology • Sprachwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-118-34053-1 / 1118340531
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-34053-0 / 9781118340530