This invaluable supplementary curriculum meets Reading First criteria and contains numerous classroom-ready activities designed to increase the phonemic awareness and preliteracy skills of preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade students.
Transform struggling readers into successful readers with this field-tested, evidence-based phonological awareness programme. This curriculum is the ideal way to deliver systematic, intensive phonological awareness instruction to students in Grades K-2, whether they have language impairments or just need extra help with literacy skills.
The most up-to-date and comprehensive description of the Spanish language's phonetic and phonological system Though there has been considerable research in Spanish phonology, until now, no in-depth and complete descriptive reference work has existed. Fonetica y fonologia descriptivas de la lengua espanola Volumes 1 and 2 is a comprehensive ......
Missouri lies at a regional crossroads where the Midwest meets the South and the West begins. The contemporary dialect picture of the state reflects this blend of influences. Depending on their backgrounds, Missourians may share speech features with Chicagoans, Kentuckians, or Californians. The authors explore the history behind this current ......
This work examines the way in which prominence-a perceptual feature that is highlighted by speakers as being important through prosodic, syntactic, and semantic cues-is marked and perceived in Japanese. Drawing on extensive quantitative data, the authors argue that Japanese, unlike non-agglutinative languages, marks prominence on content words as ......
A New Perspective for the Use of Dialect in African American Spirituals: History, Context, and Linguistics investigates the use of the African American English (AAE) dialect in the musical genre of the spiritual. Perfect for conductors and performers alike, this book traces the history of the dialect, its use in early performance practice, and the ......
This book demonstrates how silence is conceptualized and represented in Japanese language and culture. A cluster of sounds in nature and onomatopoeic vocabulary enable verbal portrayals of silence consistent with a cultural pattern of practices that value sensate and affective reactions.
This book demonstrates how silence is conceptualized and represented in Japanese language and culture. A cluster of sounds in nature and onomatopoeic vocabulary enable verbal portrayals of silence consistent with a cultural pattern of practices that value sensate and affective reactions.
A collection of essays on Akkadian linguistics honoring the career of scholar John Huehnergard and covering topics including lexicon, morphology, word order, syntax, verbal semantics, and subgrouping.
This book brings a new methodological framework for classification of Montenegrin dialects, introducing new criteria to it and focusing on the isoglosses which make those dialects compact. The book is based on field research published in the past 150 years.
How the sounds of spoken language arise is ultimately still a mystery to researchers. Acoustic phonetics has analyzed sound phenomena, whereas articulatory phonetics determines the physiological formation of spoken language. Little is known about the air, however, the central element of speech both within and immediately outside the body as it ......
This study offers a synchronic and diachronic account of the Biblical Hebrew verbal tense system during the Second Temple period, based on the books of Esther, Daniel, and Ezra and Nehemiah, along with the non-synoptic parts of Chronicles. In analyzing the development of this system, Cohen discerns the changes that mark the transition from the ......
Intends to help students develop a greater awareness of the relationships among phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Primarily for classroom teachers of students grades 3 through 8, this book features activities, jokes, and riddles to increase students' metaphonological and phonological awareness.
Offers a comprehensive analysis of a variety of crucial issues in the phonology and morphophonology of various dialects of Spanish. This book includes margin notes to highlight key points and a glossary of constraints. It includes study questions, lists of the most influential sources for each chapter, and topics for further research.
Pronouncing English is a textbook for teaching English phonetics and phonology, offering an original "stress-based" approach while incorporating all the standard course topics.
Explores issues in the phonology and morphology of the major Iberian languages: Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish. In this title, most of the essays are based on innovative theoretical frameworks and show how revolutions in theoretical ideas have affected the study of these languages.
