Vowels and Consonants
Title | Vowels and Consonants PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ladefoged |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2012-01-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 144435504X |
This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, and expanded coverage of topics such as speech technology. Describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages Written by the late Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, with updates by renowned forensic linguist, Sandra Ferrari Disner Includes numerous revisions to the discussion of speech technology and additional updates throughout the book Explores the acoustic, articulatory, and perceptual components of speech, demonstrates speech synthesis, and explains how speech recognition systems work Supported by an accompanying website at www.vowelsandconsonants3e.com featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life
Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory
Title | Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Krämer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2008-08-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110197316 |
Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory covers the major issues in the generative analysis of vowel harmony and vowel harmony typology. The book offers an economical account of the most prominent features of vowel harmony systems (root control, affix control, dominance, vowel opacity, and neutrality) within the framework of optimality theory, extending the notion of correspondence to the syntagmatic dimension.The book contains a typological overview of vowel harmony patterns, an introduction to the basics of optimality theory including some of its most recent extensions and detailed studies of harmony systems in 10 languages from a variety of language families.
Short Vowels
Title | Short Vowels PDF eBook |
Author | Dick & Jane |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005-01-13 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780448436494 |
A new series of workbooks designed to help children recognize and recite short vowel sounds with games, sound recognition, following directions, tracing and writing, and thinking skills.
Short Vowels
Title | Short Vowels PDF eBook |
Author | Wiley Blevins |
Publisher | Sound It Out (Look! Books (Tm) |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1634403401 |
"The alphabet has 26 letters. Five of them are vowels: a-e-i-o-u. They can make long and short sounds. The short vowels can be used to build many simple words. Readers learn what these short vowels can do."--
Bob Books
Title | Bob Books PDF eBook |
Author | Bobby Lynn Maslen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Baseball stories |
ISBN | 9780439865418 |
"Bob Books long vowels introduces important new reading skills! Children learn long vowels and the magical silent e. Maturing readers' vocabularies grow quickly as they finish the stories in these eight longer books, 16-24 pages each. Upon finishing Bob Books Long Vowels, kids are proud to be ready for chapter books" -- Back of container.
Animal Strike at the Zoo. It's True!
Title | Animal Strike at the Zoo. It's True! PDF eBook |
Author | Karma Wilson |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2006-05-30 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0060575026 |
There's an animal strike at the zoo! oh no, oh my! What's a zookeeper to do when the lions and tigers and bears refuse to roar and prowl and growl? And when little Sue, who has been waiting all year for this trip to the zoo, enters the gate, will the animals decide to give their strike a break? Karma Wilson's fun, playful text paired with Margaret Spengler's bright and lively pastels create an unforgettable, irresistible zoo of chaos and fun!
Book of Words
Title | Book of Words PDF eBook |
Author | Valeda D. Blockcolsky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 1990-01-01 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780884503279 |