This bestselling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of
language. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information in bite …

Dieses Standardwerk der deutschen Sprachgeschichte stellt die wichtigsten historischen
Umbrüche der deutschen Sprache bis in die heutige Zeit dar und leistet deren Begründung …

This study examines the putative benefits of explicit phonetic instruction, high variability
phonetic training, and their effects on adult nonnative speakers' Mandarin tone productions …

This dissertation takes a Minimalist approach to phonology, treating the phonological
module as a system of abstract symbolic computation, divorced from phonetic content. I …

Phonological Architecture bridges linguistic theory and the biological sciences, presenting a
comprehensive view of phonology from a biological perspective. Its back-to-basics approach …

Previous studies have shown that when speakers of European languages are asked to turn
nonwords into words by altering either a vowel or consonant, they tend to treat vowels as …

We asked whether invariant phonetic indices for syllable structure can be identified in a
language where word-initial consonant clusters, regardless of their sonority profile, are …

Shanghai Chinese has evolved from the eight-tone system recorded in Edkins (1853) to the
current five-tone system (Qian 2003). Figure 1 illustrates the f0 contours of the five tones (T1 …

This chapter discusses a range of issues on syllables and stress in Chinese: the maximal
and minimal sizes of syllables, their structures, whether syllables need an onset and …

This volume provides a broad introduction to Chinese linguistics, offering an accessible
synthesis of the most relevant topics in the field. Despite the steady growth in interest in …