In a Manner of Speaking: Accents of the English-speaking World

Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places. The author takes into account various English accents and examines them succinctly.

Stylistique compare du français et de l’anglais

We read too often, even in the writings of translators warned that the translation is an art. This formula to contain some truth, however tends to arbitrarily limit the nature of our object. In fact the translation is an exact discipline, with its techniques and specific problems, and that is how we want to consider in the pages that follow.

Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At twelve months, an infant learns new words slowly and laboriously but at twenty months he or she acquires an average of ten new words per day. How can we explain this phenomenal change? A theory of word acquisition will not only deepen our understanding of the nature of language but will provide real insight into the workings of the developing mind

This fully revised third edition integrates updated references, new findings, and modern theories, to present readers with the most thorough and complete introduction to phonetics and phonology.Exceptionally thorough, including detailed attention to articulatory and acoustic phonetics as well as to the foundations of phonological analysisFeatures a number of valuable changes, incorporating new material on the latest findings in speech production studies; greater coverage of prosody, including a major section on autosegmental metrical models; expanded coverage of phonology, including Optimality Theory; and sections on L1 and L2 acquisition, and sociolectal variation

This textbook presupposes no knowledge of phonology or phonetics, and takes the learner step by step through the various stages and areas of the discipline without sacrificing rigor or breadth of coverage. The extraordinary clarity of explanation by the authors make this book readily understood by anyone with a keen interest in phonology.