Humans are remarkably efficient at parsing basic linguistic cues and show an equally
impressive ability to produce and parse socially indexed cues from the language (s) they …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on potential similarities between speech and
music from the perspective of infant listeners. The stimuli of concern are sound sequences …

Optimality Theory first gained wide exposure from a course taught by Prince and Smolensky
at the 1991 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America. The earliest and still the …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 OUTSTANDING DISSERTATIONS IN LINGUISTICS Edited by
Laurence Horn Yale University A ROUTLEDGE SERIES Page 3 OUTSTANDING …

This book provides an overview of phonological typology: the study of how sounds are
distributed across the languages of the world and why they display these distributions and …

Both phonetics and phonology deal with the sound structure of human language. Phonetics
deals with the physical reality of speech, and phonology with the apparently categorical …

" If you are not already a Steven Pinker addict, this book will make you one."--Jared
Diamond In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explores profound mysteries of language by …

This is an account of the phonology and morphology of modern spoken Arabic, the first to be
published in any language and based largely on the author's research. Dr. Watson's …

When a parameter specifying the configuration or state of an articulatory structure is
manipulated through a range of values, some acoustic parameter describing the resulting …

Superior to any other book on the subject that I have seen. I can see it being used as a class
text or reference for current theory in sign language phonology. This book is intended in part …