Phonetics, phonology Books
Peter Lang AG Linguistic Change in Galway City English: A
Book SynopsisThis volume is a novel approach to the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. Based on qualitative data as well as on linguistic features extracted from the Corpus of Galway City Spoken English, this study approaches the major sociolinguistic characteristics of (th) and (dh) variability in Galway City English. It demonstrates the diverse local patterns of variability and change in the phonetic realisation of the dental fricatives and establishes a considerable degree of divergence from traditional accounts on Irish English. This volume suggests that the linguistic stratification of variants of (th) and (dh) in Galway correlates both with the social stratification of the city itself and with the stratification of speakers by social status, sex/gender and age group.Table of ContentsContents: Galway as a social and linguistic area – Galway City English as a variety of Irish English – The Corpus of Galway City Spoken English – Uni-/bi-/trivariate analysis of (th, dh)-variability in Galway City English.
£54.63
Peter Lang AG Transitivité en seereer: Variante ool de NGoye
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£50.81
Peter Lang AG Reziproke Strukturen Valenter Substantive in Der
Book SynopsisDie Studie beschäftigt sich mit einem Spezialgebiet der Substantivvalenzforschung. Nach der Diskussion einiger Grundfragen der Substantivvalenz ermittelt die Autorin die reziproken Strukturen auf empirischer Grundlage. Es folgt eine ausführliche Beschreibung der morphosyntaktischen und semantischen Merkmale der Elemente von reziproken Strukturen. Der Formtyp Reziproke und der Funktionstyp Wechselseitigkeit werden als zwei Seiten eines funktionalen Modells gedeutet. Abschließend wird überprüft, ob die bestimmten Merkmale ausreichen, die reziproken Strukturen von den anderen Syntagmen valenter Substantive abzugrenzen. Die Ergebnisse der durchgeführten Untersuchungen sind im Anhang detailliert dargestellt, so u.a. zahlreiche valente Substantive im Hinblick auf Reziprozität.
£54.63
Peter Lang AG Constraints on Structure and Derivation in
Book SynopsisThe papers collected in this volume explore the major mechanisms, that is derivations and constraints, claimed to be responsible for various aspects of the linguistic systems, their syntax, phonology and morphology. The contributors approach these issues through a detailed analysis of selected phenomena of Modern English, Old English, Polish, Russian, Hungarian and Icelandic, offering novel theoretical and descriptive insights into the working of human language.Table of ContentsStructure – Derivation – Constraints – Syntax – Phonology – Morphology – Person Case Constraint – Gemination – Psychological predicates – Negative polarity items – Nominalizations – Argument structure alternations
£65.11
Peter Lang AG Hamburgisch: Struktur, Gebrauch, Wahrnehmung der
Book SynopsisDas Hamburgische wird von einem Sprachkontakt zwischen Niederdeutsch und Hochdeutsch geprägt, der zu einer wechselseitigen strukturellen Beeinflussung beider Sprachen führte. Die Beiträge zeigen das Spektrum regionalsprachlicher Forschungsansätze, von variationslinguistischen Studien bis hin zu Ansätzen der aktuellen Sprachbiographieforschung und der Betrachtung sprachlicher Variation als Komponente eines umfassenderen semiotischen Systems als Enregisterment. Durch einen solchen multiperspektivischen Ansatz lassen sich die variativen Ausprägungen der Stadtsprache und die Mechanismen sprachlichen Wandels beschreiben. Struktur-, Wahrnehmungs- und Einstellungsdaten sowie biographische Daten sind miteinander ins Verhältnis zu setzen, um Sprachwirklichkeit umfassend erschließbar zu machen.
£73.31
Peter Lang AG Beraten in Interaktion: Eine
Book SynopsisDer Band vereint linguistische Analysen und Ergebnisse zum Beraten in verschiedensten Handlungsfeldern wie Medizin, Psychiatrie, Pflege, Recht, Schule und Hochschule, Weiterbildung, Coaching, Philosophische Praxis, Psychotherapie, Supervision, Soziale Arbeit, Gründung und Wirtschaft. Jedes Einzelkapitel bietet eine detaillierte Beschreibung eines Beratungsformates und seiner spezifischen sprachlich-kommunikativen Merkmale. Davon ausgehend wird eine gesprächslinguistische Typologie entwickelt, die den Facettenreichtum des Beratens anhand einer Merkmalsmatrix abbildet. Diese erlaubt, Typen von Beraten zu bestimmen, miteinander zu vergleichen und zu differenzieren. Damit liefert der Band auch wichtige theoretische und methodologische Impulse für gesprächslinguistische Typologisierungsansätze.
£83.70
Peter Lang AG The Use of Gender Markers in Animals: As
Book SynopsisThis book is a contribution to the study of the linguistic concept of gender. It focuses on the problem of assigning gender to animal nouns. This problem is topical in view of the fact that in present-day English, gender is a marginal grammatical category and therefore recedes into the background in descriptions of today’s English. Grammatical gender is a rare topic of research, scientific discussions or papers. The detailed analysis of gender assignment to animal names is based on two subcorpora: the English edition of National Geographic and the English edition of the Journal of Zoology. The book closes with a contrastive analysis of gender markers.Table of ContentsContents: Gender – Animal nouns – Present-day English – National Geographic – Journal of Zoology – Gender markers – Gender assignment.
£38.38
Peter Lang AG Phonology, its Faces and Interfaces
Book SynopsisThe papers collected in this volume examine selected aspects of the interaction of phonology with phonetics, morphosyntax and the lexicon in a variety of languages including Korean, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Dutch and Hawaiian. In order to approach the role and ways of expressing extraphonological information in phonology, the international contributors adopt different methods of analysis (data gathering, experiments, theoretical discussions), couched in various theoretical frameworks (such as Optimality Theory and Government Phonology), which reveal both the multifarious faces and interfaces of modern phonological research.Table of ContentsInteraction of phonology with phonetics – Morphosyntax – Lexicon – Role and ways of expressing extraphonological information in phonology – Methods of analysis: Data gathering, experiments, theoretical discussions – Theoretical frameworks: Optimality Theory, Government Phonology) – Multifarious faces and interfaces of modern phonological research
£55.80
Peter Lang AG Neologismen in der Science Fiction: Eine
Book SynopsisNeologismen erfüllen in Science-Fiction-Texten eine genrekonstituierende Funktion und stellen den Übersetzer vor eine besondere Herausforderung. Die Autorin untersucht die bei der Übersetzung von Neologismen angewandten Verfahren sowie für die Übersetzung relevante Besonderheiten von Neologismen. Die statistische Auswertung einer Sammlung von über 4700 Belegen liefert allgemeine Erkenntnisse über das Vorgehen der Übersetzer. Die Analyse von Einzelbeispielen wiederum zeigt weitere Aspekte der Übersetzung von Neologismen auf. Somit ermöglicht das Buch eine umfassende Darstellung dieses bislang wenig beachteten Übersetzungsproblems.
£48.82
Peter Lang AG Benito Mussolini retore: Un caso di persuasione
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£46.48
Peter Lang AG Substantivkomposita des Mittelhochdeutschen: Eine
Book SynopsisDas Buch untersucht die Semantik der Substantivkomposita des Mittelhochdeutschen. Grundlage ist das Korpus des Projekts Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik von Th. Klein, K.-P. Wegera und H.-J. Solms. Der Autor bestimmt die aktuellen Bedeutungen der Belege in ihrem jeweiligen Überlieferungskontext, der möglichst vollständig mitgeteilt wird. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden die Wortbildungsbedeutungen der einzelnen Wörter angesetzt, die wiederum Grundlage der anschließenden semantischen Klassifizierung der Komposita sind. Das Bindungsverhältnis zwischen Grundwort und Bestimmungswort wird nach einem bereits für die Gegenwartssprache erprobten Raster ermittelt.
£91.94
Peter Lang AG Backness Distinction in Phonology: A Polish
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the phonological consequences of the backness distinction in high vowels. It focuses on a single-phoneme approach which does not recognize the existence of the vowel y. The author demonstrates that the role of y is crucial for the analysis of Polish palatalization. If y is recognized as a separate phoneme, then the processes receive a straightforward account in Lexical Phonology and Optimality Theory, the two frameworks used in the study. On the other hand, the absence of y leads to unwarranted exceptionality and entails an extensive use of diacritics or lexical constraints. The analyses show, however, that the lack of y is empirically unfeasible and requires segment indexation, a solution unheard of in phonology.Table of ContentsThe phonemic status of the vowel «y» and its role in the processes of Polish palatalization – The treatment of lexical exceptions in phonology – The use of indexed constraints in Optimality Theory
£55.80
Peter Lang AG Variation and Change in Aberdeen English: A
Book SynopsisThis book is the first major sociophonetic work on the urban accent of Aberdeen in North-East Scotland. The study shows how the accent has changed following the large-scale immigration from other parts of Scotland and the UK since the 1970s. It is rooted in a dialect contact framework and based on sociolinguistic interviews with a stratified sample of 44 Aberdonians. The study uses an innovative method to assess the importance of the individual speaker in innovating and conserving the local accent. Based on six phonological variables, it shows how the traditional variants are replaced or marginalised, supraregional forms gain ground and strongly marked forms typical of Glaswegian or London English are added to the local feature pool.Table of ContentsAberdeen – Accent – Acoustic phonetics – Conservation – Consonants – Dialect contact – Innovation – Language change – Phonology – Scotland – Scots – Scottish English – Scottish Standard English – sociolinguistics – Sociophonetics – Vowels
£50.00
Peter Lang AG Essays and Studies in Middle English: 9th
Book SynopsisThis volume is a selection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Middle English held at Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna (Philological School of Higher Education) in Wrocław, Poland, from April 30 to May 3, 2015. The contributors cover a wide range of topics in the area of language and literature. The linguistic papers constitute the majority of contributions and focus on problems from phonology to grammar, semantics and pragmatics. The literary contributions discuss various aspects of Middle English texts.Table of ContentsMiddle English – Linguistics – Literature – Recipe – Word-Formation – Pragmatics – Reflexives – Reciprocal markers – Regularisation – Rhetorical question – Narrative strategies – Romance – Translation
£55.80
Peter Lang AG Licensing of Vowel Length in Czech: The
Book SynopsisThis book presents a morphosyntactic account of vowel length in contemporary Czech. The present approach is strictly decompositional on both the phonological and the morphosyntactic side. It assumes prosodic affixes in contemporary Czech. The focus is on prosodic affixes which realize morphosyntactic parts of diminutives and hypocoristics. Table of ContentsMorphosyntactic account of vowel length in contemporary Czech – Prosodic affixes – Diminutives – Hypocoristics
£33.21
Peter Lang AG The Attainment of an English Accent: British and
Book SynopsisThis book investigates inconsistencies in the accent adopted by advanced German learners of English with respect to differences between standard American and British English (rhoticity, t-voicing, the vowels in the lexical sets «bath», «lot» and «thought»). From a theoretical point of view, the volume contributes to understanding the status of L1 transfer in language learners at «ultimate attainment», a stabilized, late stage in language acquisition. Unlike in many studies in second language acquisition, the approach taken here is variationist, taking into account extra- and intra-linguistic factors as potential explanations for variability. The findings suggest that in addition to the target accent the strongest external factor is time spent abroad, while L1 accent and proficiency level seem to have minor impact only.Table of ContentsVariation, transfer and ultimate attainment – Cross-linguistic comparison (British and American English, German) and transfer opportunities for German learners – Methodology (acoustic and auditory analyses; statistics; Rbrul; pairwise t-tests) – Persisting L1 transfer at a late stage of acquisition – Free variation
£58.10
Peter Lang AG Negation in den Nebensaetzen negierender
Book SynopsisDas Buch analysiert die aus heutiger Perspektive redundante Negation in den Nebensätzen negierender Ausdrücke wie abhalten, hindern, verbieten, in Abrede stellen. Diese Negation kam bis zum 19. Jahrhundert häufig vor, sie wurde danach aber als Mehrfachnegation zurückgedrängt. Die Autorin überprüft anhand einer Korpusanalyse die Hypothese, dass die Negation ein Aggregationsmerkmal ist, das die Nicht-Integriertheit des Nebensatzes signalisiert. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung untermauern diese Hypothese sowie bestimmte Beobachtungen der Grammatiker, während sie andere Informationen der Fachliteratur in Frage stellen.
£53.46
Peter Lang AG Nordic Prosody: Proceedings of the XIIth
Book SynopsisThis volume contains articles based on the presentations given at the Nordic Prosody XII conference, which was held at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway) in August 2016. The contributors investigate various prosodic aspects, including intonation, rhythm, speaking rate, intensity, and breathing, using approaches ranging from phonetic and phonological analysis to speech technology methods. While most of the studies examine read speech, some of them explore the prosodics of spontaneous speech. The languages that receive most attention are Norwegian, Swedish and Icelandic as well as Estonian, Latgalian and Polish. In addition to the larger Nordic languages, several papers focus on regional languages spoken in these areas.Table of ContentsConference proceedings – Prosodic research – Intonation, pitch, tonality, rhythm, speaking rate, intensity, and breathing – Phonetic and phonological analysis of read and spontaneous speech – Scandinavian languages – Languages from the Baltic Sea area
£45.36
Peter Lang AG Sprache der deutschsprachigen Kanzleien in der
Book SynopsisDie Autoren analysieren die Aspekte der phonologischen und graphematischen Ebene anhand von Texten, die in Krakau, im Ordensstaat, in Preußen Königlichen Anteils sowie in Schlesien in den Jahren 13501650 entstanden sind. Im Vordergrund stehen der Stand der Realisierung der standardsprachlichen und mundartlichen Neuerungen des Frühneuhochdeutschen und die Relationen zwischen Graphemen und Phonemen.
£27.79
Peter Lang AG «Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» – A Cognitive
Book SynopsisThis book deals with the expression of emotions in Igala – a Nigerian minority language with about two million speakers – from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The author investigates the network of the Igala language of emotions using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework as developed by Anna Wierzbicka and her collaborators. The claims of adequacy of NSM in its present form for the analysis of emotion concepts universally will be challenged. This is due to the way emotions are conceptualized in the Igala language and due to the absence of certain semantic primes which are considered necessary for the analysis of emotions.Therefore, this study presents a testing ground for further development of the framework as well as a peek into research in African languages.Table of ContentsCognitive Linguistics – Semantic primes – Conceptualization of emotions – Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) – Conceptual metaphors – Cognate object constructions – Polysemy – Igala – Nigeria – African Linguistics
£31.36
Peter Lang AG Speech production and perception: Learning and
Book SynopsisLearning and memory processes are basic features of human existence. They allow us to (un)consciously adapt to changes in our social and physical environment in a variety of ways and may have been a precursor for survival in human evolution. Through several reviews and original work the book focuses on three key topics that enhanced our understanding of the topic in the last twenty years: first, the role of real-time auditory feedback in learning, second, the role of motor aspects for learning and memory, and third, representations in memory and the role of sleep on memory consolidation. The electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the Open Access version can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org Table of ContentsLearning – Memory – Speech – Feedback – Autism – Gestures – Sleep – Exemplar models – Sensorimotor adaptation – Second language learning – Formant perturbation – Speech sound errors – Non-native speech – Speech motor control – Phonetics – Coarticulation – Reduction
£50.04
Peter Lang AG Vokalschreibungen im Deutschen: Eine
Book SynopsisAuf Basis des Konzepts Graphotaktik entwickelt die Autorin eine Untersuchungsmethode, mit der sich das individuelle Korrespondenzverhalten von phonologischen Einheiten systematisch erforschen und flächendeckend offenlegen lässt. Dieses Konzept evaluiert die Idee, dass für die geschriebene Sprache spezielle Regeln dafür gelten, wo bestimmte Einheiten auftreten können und wie beziehungsweise ob sie mit anderen verbunden werden dürfen. Konzeptionell basiert das Verfahren auf der Annahme, dass sich das mögliche Auftreten von Verschriftlichungsvarianten für ein Phonem jeweils nur auf bestimmte graphische Kontexte erstreckt. Praktisch findet der graphotaktische Analyseapparat Anwendung, indem die Autorin existente Korrespondenzbeziehungen einer lautlichen Einheit aus spezifischen graphischen Kontexten erfragt.
£62.78
Peter Lang AG Origins of Human Language: Continuities and
Book SynopsisThis book proposes a detailed picture of the continuities and ruptures between communication in primates and language in humans. It explores a diversity of perspectives on the origins of language, including a fine description of vocal communication in animals, mainly in monkeys and apes, but also in birds, the study of vocal tract anatomy and cortical control of the vocal productions in monkeys and apes, the description of combinatory structures and their social and communicative value, and the exploration of the cognitive environment in which language may have emerged from nonhuman primate vocal or gestural communication.Table of ContentsVocal Repertoire of Captive Guinea Baboons – Exploring Baboon Vocalizations with Speech Science Techniques – Origins of Human Consonants and Vowels: Articulatory Continuities with Great Apes – Comparative Anatomy of the Baboon and Human Vocal Tracts – Evolution of the laryngeal motor cortex for speech production – Motor and Communicative Correlates of the Inferior Frontal Gyrus – From Animal Communication to Linguistics and Back – Primate Roots of Speech and Language – What gestures of nonhuman primates can (and cannot) tell us about language evolution – Dendrophilia and the Evolution of Syntax – Comparing Human and Nonhuman Animal Performance on Domain-General Functions
£63.99
Peter Lang AG Phonology, Fieldwork and Generalizations
Book SynopsisThe authors of this book explore various areas of phonology and morphology. They cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological themes, among them phonological representation, allomorphy, opacity, contrast preservation, markedness, frequency of use, the interface of morphology and phonology, domains, sound change, synchronic and diachronic perspective, phonetic grounding and metrical structure. The analyses are couched in theoretical frameworks, including Optimality Theory, Derivational Optimality Theory and Government Phonology. Other than English, also Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and West Slavic languages are analysed. This collection of papers is published in honour of Jerzy Rubach to recognise his contribution to the field of phonology.Table of ContentsPhonological representation – Allomorphy – Opacity – Contrast preservation – Markedness – Frequency of use – Interface of morphology and phonology – Domains – Phonetic grounding – Sound change – Metrical structure
£52.60
Peter Lang AG Accent and Identity in Learner Varieties of
Book SynopsisThis mixed-methods study investigates the link between accent and identity in an English as a lingua franca setting. The subjects, German and French university students living in Scandinavia, pursue their study programmes and every-day lives in English. A quantitative speech data analysis of eight phonetic features describes the speakers’ accents, while a qualitative analysis of introspective interview data exhibits how they differ in terms of identity. The results provide an in-depth understanding of individuals using English as a lingua franca. Do the German and French speakers of English alter or keep their foreign accents in order to express identity in the seemingly neutral Scandinavian setting?Table of ContentsIdentity – Accents: Phonetic aspects of learner varieties – English as a lingua franca – Methods and methodology – Analysis of speech data – Qualitative content analysis – Discussion of results – Conclusion and prospects for future research
£61.74
Peter Lang AG The Phonetics and Phonology of Glottalization in
Book SynopsisThis book combines theoretical and experimental approaches to provide a comprehensive account of glottalization in word-final syllables in Italian. The speech production study at the heart of the book sheds light on the source of glottalization, the contextual factors determining its occurrence, and the acoustic correlates which characterize its production. Acoustic analysis of words presenting evidence of glottalization is carried out through visual inspection of the acoustic signal together with spectral analysis of voice quality. Statistical analysis of the data in the study is performed using mixed effects models, as well as tree-based methods including conditional inference trees and random forests. Results of the study have implications for cross-linguistic studies on voice quality.Table of ContentsGlottalization and syllable well-formedness – Voice quality – Classification and quantification – Laboratory speech study – Glottalization in Central Italian – A glottal stop coda or prosodic edge marking? – Glottalization in Northern Italian – Regional and individual variation – Acoustic characteristics of glottalization
£54.45
Peter Lang AG Centres and Peripheries in Celtic Linguistics
Book SynopsisThis book examines various aspects of Celtic linguistics from a general and more specific point of view. Amongst the topics investigated is the system of Irish initial mutations from both a linguistic universal and contrastive perspective. Other contributions analyse and cast new light on deverbal adjectives and assertive and declarative speech acts in Irish, communication and language transmission, change and policy, Breton and Sorbian grammars, as well as other issues of sociolinguistics in Irish, Welsh and Breton.Table of ContentsMartin J. Ball / Nicole Müller, Sonority and initial consonant mutation in Modern Celtic — Maria Bloch-Trojnar, Peripheral, yet in the centre – A note on the use of «-ach» in deverbal adjective formation in Irish — Magdalena Chudak, Variation in the initial consonants of some Irish pronouns — Krzysztof Jaskuła, Brittonic and Goidelic word-initial consonantal alterations – facts and figures — Mélanie Jouitteau, Children prefer natives - A study on the transmission of a heritage language; Standard Breton, Neo-Breton and traditional dialects — Brian Nolan, The role of context and common ground in utterance meaning with assertive and declarative speech acts of Irish — Diarmuid Ó Sé, Centre and periphery in Munster dialects of Irish — Till Vogt, Early descriptions of Lower Sorbian and Breton Syntax: The grammar books by Julien Maunoir and Jan Chojnan — Paweł Tuz, The Welsh language in education from the 19th century until the present day: Did the popularisation of Welsh in education improve its general situation?
£43.47
Peter Lang AG Polish consonant clusters in the British mouth: A
Book SynopsisThe book offers a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the ongoing vigorous debate on loanword phonology, its major mechanisms and various interpretations. It provides an in-depth analysis of a rich body of novel experimental data on online adaptation of Polish consonant clusters, absent in English, by native speakers of British English. The analysis is couched within the framework of Optimality Theory. The author argues for the phonological approach to loanword adaptation as well as for the core-periphery structure of the English lexicon and shows that the proposed perspective allows for a deep insight into the nature of the collected language data.Table of ContentsLinguistic borrowing — Phonological loanword adaptation — Major theoretical approaches to phonological loanword adaptation — Consonant clusters in English and Polish — A sonority-based and optimality theoretic perspective — Adaptation of Polish CC and CCC consonant clusters by native speakers of English.
£41.36
Peter Lang AG Phonetics and Phonology in Action
Book SynopsisThe present volume is a collection of 14 papers written by several international scholars who examine a variety of descriptive and theoretical issues topical in current phonetic and phonological research. This is done through a meticulous analysis of a rich body of data, often obtained experimentally, taken from such languages as Gothic, Sanskrit, Old Chinese, Malaylam, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, English and Portuguese as well as through theoretical considerations which carry broader implications for the study of sound systems.Table of ContentsPart One: Segmental issues – Part Two: Prosody
£50.04
Peter Lang AG Valency in Verbs and Verb-Related Structures
Book SynopsisThe volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizations and compounds) in a variety of languages (English, Polish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Greek, Hebrew, Bantu languages and the West African language Ga). The introduction offers an overview of valency related issues and up-to-date linguistic literature. The eleven contributions address specific problems, such as the interaction of valency with argument- and event-structure, properties of light verbs, impersonal constructions, antipassives, analogies between passivization and nominalization/adjectivization, effects of verbal prefixation, and synthetic compounds. The proposed analyses are couched in lexically and syntactically driven approaches.Table of ContentsValency in verbs and verb-related structures – Passives, unaccusativity, and nominalisation – A DM perspective on the structure of passive potential adjectives in Polish – The omission of internal arguments in verbal and nominal structures – When a verb has more than one valence frame – The interaction between event structure and argument structure in light of some Hungarian and English facts – Synthetic compound adjectives in Polish. A case of the morphology-syntax interface – The morpho-syntax of reflexive impersonals in Polish – The unbearable lightness of HAVE(ing) – Antipassive-like features in selected English and Polish object drop constructions – The internal structure of the synthetic compounds based on the passive participle in English – On the properties of arguments in Polish na-prefixed constructions
£50.04
Peter Lang AG Musical Intelligence and Its Impact on English
Book SynopsisThis book delves into the convergence between musical intelligence and L2 pronunciation skills. It starts with a detailed description of the theory of Multiple Intelligences proposed by Howard Gardner (1983) with particular reference to musical intelligence. It also constitutes an attempt at describing the relationship between musical intelligence and other intelligences. A detailed description of the prosodic features of speaker's pronunciation skills is the "prelude" to the methodology of research, as well as the research results, which take into consideration some of the most problematic issues, including the outcomes obtained from Wing's musical intelligence test and pronunciation test measured by three independent English native speakers and by Praat. Table of ContentsMusical intelligence and the theory of multiple intelligences – Herbert Wing's musical intelligence test – Assessment of speaking – Automatic measurement of L2 pronunciation skills – Speech rate – Articulation rate – Average syllable duration – Pausing – Fundamental frequency
£41.36
Peter Lang AG La organización informativa, sintáctica y
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Peter Lang AG Interaktion zwischen Agentivitaet und Telizitaet
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£29.88
Peter Lang AG Sprache Der Deutschsprachigen Kanzleien in Der
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£40.64
Peter Lang AG In Search of the Cultural Motivation in Language:
Book SynopsisThis book aims to expose a panchronic outlook on motivation behind the word within the paradigm of cognitive linguistics. On the example of girl and woman used in "Dubliners", the author emphasises the impact of culture on human conceptualisation which, in turn, can be traced in language. The results of her analysis reveal that the linguistic sign is not an arbitrary pairing of form and meaning, but rather a language unit motivated by culture. This book will be of interest to those who wish to look more closely at the relationship between language, culture and human mind. Readers interested in Joyce will also find a great dose of cultural and biographical facts related to his life as well as his vision of females as conceptualised in "Dubliners".
£40.64
Peter Lang AG Improving Academic Listening and Note-Taking
Book SynopsisThe book investigates the effectiveness of long-term strategy training on how successfully and efficiently students listen to lectures and take notes. It is centered around a longitudinal study designed to measure to what extent a specially designed course allows 1st year undergraduate students to improve their academic skills. The research presented is grounded in theoretical perspectives on general listening comprehension, discourse processing, and teaching second language subskills. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in tertiary education and providing college and university students with courses useful in their academic performance. The readers might also gain insights into long-term research methodology of which the book gives a detailed account.Table of ContentsAcademic listening – Listening to lectures – Quality and quantity of notes – The efficiency of note-taking – Long-term strategy training – Developing listening skills in tertiary education
£43.83
Peter Lang AG Insights into the Baltic and Finnic Languages:
Book SynopsisThis book includes twelve articles that present new research on the Finnic and Baltic languages spoken in the southern and eastern part of the Circum-Baltic area. It aims to elaborate on the various contact situations and (dis)similarities between the languages of the area. Taking an areal, comparative, or sociolinguistic perspective, the articles offer new insights into the grammatical, semantic, pragmatic, and textual patterns of different types of predicates or nouns or consider the variation of grammatical categories from a typological perspective. The qualitative analyses find support in quantitative data collected from language corpora or written sources, including those representing the less studied varieties of the area. Table of Contentsanalyticity – Baltic languages – case – causativity – Circum-Baltic area – demonstrative pronouns – evidentiality – Finnic languages – imperative – language change – language contacts – morphology – morphosyntax – oblique mood – onomastics – participle – pragmatics – semantics – standardization – surnames – syntheticity – temporal adverb – typology – verbal prefixes
£52.47
Peter Lang AG Prosody and Conceptional Variation
Book SynopsisProsody is strongly influenced by situational variation along conceptional parameters, such as the degree of communicative collaboration, the degree of dialogicity, the degree of planning, or the degree of familiarity between partners. Prosodic research, however, still focuses more on decontextualized "prosodic grammars" than on prosodic variation itself. This book, which gathers contributions from the "Prosody and conceptional variation" panel at the Deutscher Romanistentag held in 2017 in Zürich, tackles methodological and theoretical issues of this interplay. Based on empirical analysis of a wide range of communicative situations, the book shows how phonetic, pragmatic, textual, and interactional perspectives can help to better understand how prosodic features and communicative settings are interrelated. Table of ContentsProsody modeling – Conceptional variation – Data collection – Prosodic breaks – Intonational phrasing – Prosodic prominence – Prosodic features – Information structure
£38.07
Peter Lang AG Aktuelle Aspekte der Dysphagiediagnostik und
Book SynopsisDie Forschung zu Diagnostik und Behandlung von Dysphagien verschiedenster Störungsbilder bei Erwachsenen und Kindern hat in Deutschland in den letzten zwanzig Jahren deutlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Der Arbeitskreis Dysphagie Ostwestfalen-Lippe in Kooperation mit dem Studiengang der Klinischen Linguistik an der Universität Bielefeld befasst sich im Rahmen einer zweijährig stattfindenden Tagung speziell mit aktuellen Fragen dieser Thematik. Der vorliegende Band diskutiert aktuelle Forschungsfragen und Ergebnisse aus Diagnostik und Therapie.
£33.16
Peter Lang AG The Syntax of Deverbal Compound Adjectives in
Book SynopsisThis volume presents research into the syntax and semantics of English deverbal compound adjectives based on the passive and active participles, e.g. pencil-drawn, action-packed, risk-taking, time-consuming. The study, couched in the current Distributed Morphology framework, uses rich linguistic data to investigate the syntactic behaviour of English participial compounds, in particular their ability to occur in typically adjectival and verbal contexts. The main claim of this work is that the verbal syntactic layers are not universally projected in the internal structure of adjectival synthetic compounds, the most important consequence of which is that linguistic formations derived from lexical verbs, even in combination with their arguments, need not be deverbal in the morphosyntactic sense.Table of ContentsWord formation in Distributed Morphology – Argument structure in deverbal adjectives – The syntax of English synthetic compounds based on the passive participle – The syntax of English synthetic compounds based on the active participle – Inner and outer cycle derivation
£38.07
Peter Lang AG Accent Variation in Indian English: A Folk
Book SynopsisThis is the first major sociolinguistic work on Indian diasporic communities in Germany. It investigates accent perceptions and attitudes to variation in Indian varieties of English. The study shows how differences in phonological characteristics index ethnic identities. Based on a network approach, it establishes the spatial dimensions of patterns of perceived language variation with a stratified sample of 60 Indians. The study uses an innovative mixed methodology to investigate overt stigmatisations as well as covert attitudes towards accent variation. It shows that metalanguage allows to understand what sociolinguistic stereotypes are at stake in diasporic communities and what criteria are made use of in such discriminations.Table of ContentsAccents – Dialects – Ethnicity – Identity – Indian diaspora – Indianness – Language attitudes – Language variation and change – Metalanguage – Mixed methods – Perceptual dialectology – Phonetics and phonology – Social networks – Sociolinguistics – Transient communities – World Englishes
£61.11
Peter Lang AG Formas y variedades tradicionales de la
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£67.05
Peter Lang AG From Jazz and Rap to Dzhaz and Rep :
Book SynopsisThe book provides a significant insight into the complex process of English loanword adaptation in Russian. It is based on an in-depth analysis and comparison of a rich body of experimental data on the adaptation of both established and online loans of those English sounds absent from Russian phonemic inventory. The analysis is couched within the Optimality-Theoretic framework. The uncovered patterns offer valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on loanword phonology.Table of ContentsEnglish loanwords in Russian – Russian sound system and selected issues of Russian phonology – Basic tenets and mechanisms of Optimality theory – Theories of loanword adaptation – Adaptation of selected English consonants and vowels
£34.20
Peter Lang AG Individuelle Sprachliche Variation in
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£62.10
Peter Lang AG Tongue Body Kinematics in Parkinson’s Disease:
Book SynopsisParkinson’s Disease affects not only gross motor but also speech motor control. Standard treatment options are drug treatment with levodopa and surgical treatment with deep brain stimulation. While both treatments are effective for gross motor symptoms, it is yet to be fully understood how speech responds to levodopa and deep brain stimulation. This thesis investigates the effect of both treatment options on the kinematic, acoustic and perceptual level in the same group of speakers with Parkinson’s disease for a first timeTable of ContentsContents – Tabia Thies – Introduction-Parkinson’s Disease-Speech Production-Speech in Parkinson’s Disease- Methods- Results: Disease Effect- Results: Levodopa Effect- Results: DBS Effect- Results: Levodopa vs STN-DBS- Results: Electrode Effect -Discussion - Conclusion- Appendix-References
£43.70
Peter Lang AG On Reading in Trilingual Learners: Conceptual,
Book SynopsisReading is considered as one of the most challenging and difficult abilities in learning a foreign language which also serves as a basis for developing other competences. The monograph presents and discusses in detail a novel multi-stage research study on the acquisition and development of reading comprehension skills in trilingual advanced learners. It examines the use of reading strategies in two experiments involving Polish students of English and German, and the impact of strategic training in one foreign language on its autonomous employment in the next one. The obtained results are subject to a thorough statistical analysis which allows for drawing significant conclusions concerning the process of reading comprehension in trilingual advanced learners.Table of Contents1. Introduction - 2. Multilingualism in Education - 3. Reading in Trilingual Classrooms - 4. Reading Comprehension Strategies in Trilingual Learners - 5. Application of Reading Strategies in Trilingual Learners - 6. Conclusions
£41.40
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften A Grammatical Sketch of Cua
Book SynopsisCua is a Kalahari Khoe language spoken in southeastern Botswana (Kweneng District). It is closely related to languages such as Gana, Tshila and Tsua. The phonology chapter describes the consonant, tone and vowel inventories, as well as a system of depressed tones following aspirated and voiced consonants. Later chapters provide concise overviews of the morphology and syntax of the language. Cua is characterized by a complex system of person-gender-number markers (PGN markers), which play a role in the formation of the pronouns. The features defining pronouns include: singular, dual, and plural number; first, second, and third person; and masculine, feminine and neutral gender. There is also a distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person plural pronouns.
£41.40
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Die Hauptprobleme Der Indogermanischen Lautlehre
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£22.80
