The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field
of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. Now …

Language attitudes and ideologies are of key importance in assessing the chances of
success of revitalisation efforts for endangered languages. However, few book-length …

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks
covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning …

An overview of Evolutionary Phonology 1.1. Explaining sound patterns Phonology is the
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For many years, the passage 'The North Wind and the Sun'(NWS) has been used for
phonetic research into different languages. However, there are many shortcomings with the …

Pronunciation plays a crucial role in learning English as an international language, yet often
remains marginalised by educators due to a lack of required phonetic and phonological …

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic
influences in English. Drawing on both original research and existing work, it covers both the …

This study examined how native speakers of Australian English and French, nontone
languages with different lexical stress properties, perceived Mandarin tones in a sentence …

This study is a formant-based investigation of the vowels of male speakers in 13 accents of
the British Isles. It provides F1/F2 graphs (obtained with a semi-automatic method) which …

This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the
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