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Carr, Philip (Author)
A Glossary of Phonology

Review
Phil Carr's A Glossary of Phonology is an extremely useful piece of work. The terms selected are essential for anyone wishing to become acquainted with the fields of contemporary phonology and phonetics. The definitions are clear and compact with many internal cross-references. Not only does it offer definitions for the standard terms used in modern phonology and phonetics, but it also covers aspects of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, bilingualism, and the philosophy of science. It also provides short biographies for some of the key players in the field. In a nutshell, it is a reference work useful for a large audience, from students to professionals in neighbouring disciplines. Even specialists in phonology and phonetics will refine their understanding of some concepts and may realise that their area of research has moved on and that assumptions taken for granted a decade ago are no longer accepted by other specialists in their field. Readers of modern works in phonology need access to the classical terminology of structuralism and generative linguistics but also to that of statistical approaches, usage-based models, cognitive linguistics and other frameworks. All this is provided by Phil Carr's glossary in a satisfying way. -- Jacques Durand, Professor of Linguistics, University of Toulouse and CNRS Phil Carr's A Glossary of Phonology is an extremely useful piece of work. The terms selected are essential for anyone wishing to become acquainted with the fields of contemporary phonology and phonetics. The definitions are clear and compact with many internal cross-references. Not only does it offer definitions for the standard terms used in modern phonology and phonetics, but it also covers aspects of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, bilingualism, and the philosophy of science. It also provides short biographies for some of the key players in the field. In a nutshell, it is a reference work useful for a large audience, from students to professionals in neighbouring disciplines. Even specialists in phonology and phonetics will refine their understanding of some concepts and may realise that their area of research has moved on and that assumptions taken for granted a decade ago are no longer accepted by other specialists in their field. Readers of modern works in phonology need access to the classical terminology of structuralism and generative linguistics but also to that of statistical approaches, usage-based models, cognitive linguistics and other frameworks. All this is provided by Phil Carr's glossary in a satisfying way.

Product Description
This pocket-sized alphabetical guide introduces the range of phenomena studied in phonology and the main theoretical frameworks for engaging in phonological analysis. The entries are a concise and clear overview of one of the main areas in linguistic analysis.

Fougeron, Cécile (Autor)
Kühnert, Barbara (Autor)
D'Imperio, Mariapaola (Autor)
Laboratory Phonology
(Phonology and Phonetics [Pp])

The central theme of this book is Variation, Phonetic Detail, and Phonological Representation. It brings together specialists of different fields of speech research with the goal to discuss the relevance of linguistic variation from the angles of speech production, perception, pathology and acquisition. As the 10th volume in the Laboratory Phonology series it also includes several review papers that deal with some of the core questions of research in laboratory phonology over the last 20 years.

Cécile Fougeron, Laboratoire de Phonetique et Phonologie, Paris, France; Barbara Kühnert, Laboratoire de Phonetique et Phonologie, Paris, France; Mariapaola D'Imperio, LaboratoireParole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France; Nathalie Vallée, Gipsa-Lab, Grenoble, France.

Laboratory Phonology 10
Ed. by Fougeron, Cécile / Kühnert, Barbara / D'Imperio, Mariapaola / Vallée, Nathalie
2010 | Hardcover | RRP Euro [D] 129.95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 182.00. * ISBN 978-3-11-022490-0 Reihe: Phonology and Phonetics [PP] 4-4

Produktinfo
The present volume contains a selection of the papers and commentaries which were originally presented at the Tenth Conference of Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon10) held in Paris from June 29 to July 1, 2006. The theme of the volume is Variation, Phonetic Detail and Phonological Representation. It brings together specialists of different fields of speech research with the goal to discuss the relevance of patterns of variation and phonetic details on phonological representations and theories. The topic is addressed from the angles of speech production, perception, acquisition, speech disorders, and language universals.

The contributions are grouped thematically in five sections, each of which is commented by invited discussants. Section I contains the contributions to the special '10th anniversary session' of the conference which represent in a prototypical way some of the different research questions that have been at the core of important debates over the last 20 years in the laboratory phonology community. Issues of phonological universals and language typology are addressed in section II. In section III, the notions of variation and phonetic detail are examined with regard to how they are acquired and dealt with in the formation of phonological representation in emerging systems. Section IV focuses on recent work at the crossroad between normal and disordered speech.

Goldstein, Louis
Whalen, D. H.
Best, Catherine T.
Laboratory Phonology 8

The Eighth Conference on Laboratory Phonology (held in New Haven, CT) continued the series' tradition of bringing together experts from different subfields by inviting papers on the phonology of signed and spoken languages. A major goal of this topic was to begin to uncover the nature of the human phonological capacity that underlies both types of systems. Several papers on signed phonology and comparisons of signed and spoken phonologies are included in this volume. Other papers address the categorical and variable aspects of phonological systems (both spoken and signed), the acquisition of such systems, and their role in guiding speech production.

Välimaa-Blum, Riitta
Cognitive Phonology in Construction Grammar

This accessible textbook analyzes some central phenomena of the sound system of standard Southern British English and General American in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar. The sound patterns are examined from the point of view of the central function of language, that is, the expression of meaning. The topics covered range from articulatory phonetics and the more abstract phonological systems to word stress and intonation. The target readership includes both students and teachers of English and linguistics.