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First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages; Description: 40 p. ; 26 cm. Subjects: Linguistics --Studies, Series: Introduction to language study. 1 Kg.…

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Zustand: New. A fascinating account of both the logic and history of contrast in phonology. Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF; CFH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460. . 2011. Reissue. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, x + 351 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle handling wear. Published without a dust jacket. -- This volume brings together a collection of theoretically and empirically grounded essays that center contrast as a core organizing principle in phonology, offering interdisciplinary insights into how contrast operates within phonological theory, speech perception, and first and second language acquisition. The volume is structured into three main parts. The first addresses formal theoretical modeling, especially the problem of how contrast is encoded in phonological systems. Dresher presents the contrastive hierarchy as a dynamic and language-specific structure, in contrast to minimal pair approaches, emphasizing that phonemic contrasts depend on the ordering of features rather than being fixed. Hall interrogates the boundaries between contrastive and redundant features, while Kuroda offers a feature-geometric reinterpretation of Japanese phonology. Scobbie and Stuart-Smith problematize binary assumptions of phonemicity through Scottish English data, proposing a scalar view of contrast - what they call "quasi-phonemic" - to account for marginal patterns. Hansson contributes a typological study linking contrast recoverability to harmony systems, showing how the interplay of feature visibility and lexical contrast guides phonological patterning. The second part focuses on perception, where several chapters explore how contrastive distinctions influence speech perception across different linguistic backgrounds. Boomershine, Hall, Hume, and Johnson compare English and Spanish listeners' sensitivity to [voiced alveolar plosive], [voiced dental fricative], and [voiced alveolar tap], showing how phonemic contrast affects perceptual distinctiveness. Mielke examines the perceptibility of /h/ across languages and ties functional load and phonotactics to contrast maintenance. Kochetov investigates the misperception of secondary articulations in systems with rich vowel inventories, using simulations to argue that production-perception constraints drive systemic asymmetries. The third section turns to acquisition. Weiss and Maye assess the role of contrast in early phonetic development and suggest that statistical learning can help infants discriminate phonetically subtle but functionally relevant distinctions. Fikkert and Levelt track the emergence of place contrasts in Dutch child phonology and explore how constraints and representations interact in developmental grammars. In L2 contexts, Boersma and Escudero model perceptual learning under Optimality Theory, while Cebrian shows how L1 vowel space affects acquisition of English front vowels by Catalan speakers. Goad further explores how lexical representations in L1 (specifically the presence or absence of aspiration) condition perception of new contrasts in L2 Thai. Throughout, the volume demonstrates that contrast cannot be understood as merely a static lexical relation but instead interacts dynamically with phonetic salience, language-specific structural patterns, and developmental pressures. Researchers and professionals in phonological theory, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and speech perception will find the book particularly useful as a comparative reference and conceptual framework. It can support inquiries into phonological typology, language-specific phoneme inventories, and the learnability of sound contrasts, while also helping to frame experimental design in studies on speech discrimination and perceptual learning. The book's integration of formal models with empirical case studies and its coverage of both theoretical and developmental domains make it adaptable to a range of academic or applied uses, from phonological curriculum design to experimental phonetics and computational modeling.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'Contrast' - the opposition between distinctive sounds in a language - is one of the most central concepts in linguistics. This book presents a fascinating account of the logic and history of contrast in phonology. It provides empirical evidence from diverse phonological domains that only contrastive features are computed by the phonological component of grammar. It argues that the contrastive specifications of phonemes are governed by language-particular feature hierarchies. This approach assigns a key role to abstract cognitive structures, challenging contemporary approaches that favour phonetic explanations of phonological phenomena. Tracing the evolution of the hypothesis that contrastive features play a special role in phonology, it shows how this insight has been obscured by misunderstandings of the role of the contrastive feature hierarchy. Questioning the widely held notion that contrast should be based on minimal pairs, Elan Dresher argues that the contrastive hierarchy is indispensable to illuminating accounts of phonological patterning.…

Zustand: New. A fascinating account of both the logic and history of contrast in phonology. Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics. Num Pages: 294 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 606. . 2009. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book takes contrast, an issue that has been central to phonological theory since Saussure, as its central theme, making explicit its importance to phonological theory, perception, and acquisition. The volume brings together a number of different contemporary approaches to the theory of contrast, including chapters set within more abstract representation-based theories, as well as chapters that focus on functional phonetic theories and perceptual constraints. This book will be of interest to phonologists, phoneticians, psycholinguists, researchers in first and second language acquisition, and cognitive scientists interested in current thinking on this exciting topic.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'Contrast' - the opposition between distinctive sounds in a language - is one of the most central concepts in linguistics. This book presents a fascinating account of the logic and history of contrast in phonology. It provides empirical evidence from diverse phonological domains that only contrastive features are computed by the phonological component of grammar. It argues that the contrastive specifications of phonemes are governed by language-particular feature hierarchies. This approach assigns a key role to abstract cognitive structures, challenging contemporary approaches that favour phonetic explanations of phonological phenomena. Tracing the evolution of the hypothesis that contrastive features play a special role in phonology, it shows how this insight has been obscured by misunderstandings of the role of the contrastive feature hierarchy. Questioning the widely held notion that contrast should be based on minimal pairs, Elan Dresher argues that the contrastive hierarchy is indispensable to illuminating accounts of phonological patterning.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book will create greater public awareness of some recent exciting findings in the formal study of poetry. The last influential volume on the subject, Rhythm and Meter , edited by Paul Kiparsky and Gilbert Youmans, appeared fifteen years ago. Since that time, a number of important theoretical developments have taken place, which have led to new approaches to the analysis of meter. This volume represents some of the most exciting current thinking on the theory of meter. In terms of empirical coverage, the papers focus on a wide variety of languages, including English, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Japanese, Somali, Old Norse, Latin, and Greek. Thus, the collection is truly international in its scope. The volume also contains diverse theoretical approaches that are brought together for the first time, including Optimality Theory (Kiparsky, Hammond), other constraint-based approaches (Friedberg, Hall, Scherr), the Quantitative approach to verse (Tarlinskaja, Friedberg, Hall, Scherr, Youmans) associated with the Russian school of metrics, a mora-based approach (Cole and Miyashita, Fitzgerald), a semantic-pragmatic approach (Fabb), and an alternative generative approach developed in Estonia (M. Lotman and M. K. Lotman). The book will be of interest to both linguists interested in stress and speech rhythm, constraint systems, phrasing, and phonology-syntax interaction and poetry, as well as to students of poetry interested in the connection between language and literature.; '[.] un ouvrage qui devrait devenir un classique des études métriques.'Jean-Louis Aroui in: Canadian Journal of Linguistics 3/2007.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume is the first to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive history of phonology from the earliest known examples of phonological thinking, through the rise of phonology as a field in the twentieth century, and up to the most recent advances. The volume is divided into five parts. Part I offers an account of writing systems along with chapters exploring the great ancient and medieval intellectual traditions of phonological thought that form the foundation of later thinking and continue to enrich phonological theory. Chapters in Part II describe the important schools and individuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who shaped phonology as an organized scientific field. Part III examines mid-twentieth century developments in phonology in the Soviet Union, Northern and Western Europe, and North America; it continues with precursors to generative grammar, and culminates in a chapter on Chomsky and Halle's The Sound Pattern of English (SPE). Part IV then shows how phonological theorists responded to SPE with respect to derivations, representations, and phonology-morphology interaction. Theories discussed include Dependency Phonology, Government Phonology, Constraint-and-Repair theories, and Optimality Theory. The part ends with a chapter on the study of variation. Finally, chapters in Part V look at new methods and approaches, covering phonetic explanation, corpora and phonological analysis, probabilistic phonology, computational modelling, models of phonological learning, and the evolution of phonology. This in-depth exploration of the history of phonology provides new perspectives on where phonology has been and sheds light on where it could go next.…

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