A Phonetic Study of West African Languages
Title | A Phonetic Study of West African Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ladefoged |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Africa, West |
ISBN | 0521069637 |
Phonetic Study of West African Languages
Title | Phonetic Study of West African Languages PDF eBook |
Author | P. Ladefoged |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2009-07-16 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780521116237 |
When it was first published in 1968, this monograph was among the most important contributions to the area of phonetic research in Africa since the publication of Westermann and Ward's Practical Phonetics for Students of African Languages in 1933. Drawing from a sample of sixty-one West African languages, Dr Ladefoged offers a description of the phonetic elements that cause differences in lexical and grammatical meaning. In particular, he focuses on unusual sounds, highlighting their linguistic function and providing a detailed account of their application in the languages concerned. Supplementing Dr Ladefoged's analyses are a number of helpful diagrams and illustrations as well as two appendices and a bibliography.
A phonetic study of West African languages
Title | A phonetic study of West African languages PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ladefoged |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Phonetic Study of West African Language
Title | A Phonetic Study of West African Language PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ladefoged |
Publisher | |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | African language |
ISBN |
A Test in Phonetics
Title | A Test in Phonetics PDF eBook |
Author | B. Siertsema |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 940117752X |
If Phonetics is a comparatively recent subject for European students of foreign languages and is eyed by them with some sus picion as an invention that is meant to make their studies difficult, it is even more so with English Phonetics for African students. Have not Africans been learning English for over a century, and with good results in many cases, without giving a thought to its phonetics? Why introduce this new subject and add to the number of books they have to read and the number of examinations they have to pass before they can get their degree? Yet if the study of a foreign language is to be up to date its phonetics cannot be neglected; on the contrary, it is as important as the study of its spelling, if not more so. With the invention of radio and telephone, of gramophone and tape-recorders, the importance of the spoken word has increased immensely and it is far more essential now than it was a hundred years ago that those who learn a foreign language should learn to speak it properly. Thus a new subject has been added to the schedule of language students and teachers: the study and practice of the sounds of the language, and for the teachers also the study of how to teach these sounds.
The Study of West African Languages
Title | The Study of West African Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Robert G. Armstrong |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Africa, West |
ISBN |
African Language Review
Title | African Language Review PDF eBook |
Author | D. Dalby |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2014-09-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136266577 |
The Sierra Leone Language Review is the African Language Journal of Fourah Bay College, the University College of Sierra Leone. The Journal is devoted to the detailed study of languages in Sierra Leone and neighbouring areas of West Africa, and also to the more general study and discussion of African languages and language-problems.