12,269円 Since its first publication in 1962, Gimson’s Pronunciation of English has been the essential reference book for anyone studying or teaching the pronunciation of English. This eighth edition has been updated to describe General British (GB) as the principal accent, rather than RP, and the accompa...

10,280円 Southern Mǐn refers to a group of Chinese dialects spoken mainly in Southeast China and Taiwan. This group occupies a special position in the study of Chinese dialects, not only because of its large population of speakers (around 48 million) but also because of its preservation of various archaic...

468円 Introducing I Can Do It Myself Phonics Reading Program With all the Phonics and Reading Programs available why do we at I Can Do It Myself have the audacity to put out yet another one? The answer to that lies with the I Can Do It program itself. It brings to you a completely different outlook and...

1,144円 I have often been frustrated and amused by natives who want to be understood only by the collusive, other natives and thus resort to the use of esoteric expressions the meanings of which are only privy to their people or even group. The most enduring manner to memorialize the truth is to render t...

10,938円 This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again. Rapid development of linguistic science in the second half of the 20th century, and cognitive science in the beginning of ...

421円 Homophones: Sonic Wonders presents 197 sets of words which are pronounced the same but have very different meanings. (I say, sets, because some sounds have 3 or even 4 different meanings, though most are pairs of words.) This is most definitely not an exhaustive list. I wrote Homophones: Sonic Wo...

5,800円 El contacto entre español y catalán ha sido estudiado, casi siempre, desde la perspectiva de la influencia que el español ejerce sobre el catalán. En cambio, en pocas ocasiones se ha abordado el estudio de las huellas del catalán presentes en el español utilizado en Cataluña. Este volumen tiene s...

18,307円 This path-breaking study of the standardisation of English goes well beyond the traditional prescriptivism versus descriptivism debate. It argues that the way norms are established and enforced is the result of a complex network of social factors and cannot be explained simply by appeals to power...

10,800円 This monograph is concerned with the question of why some English words have more than one stress pattern. E.g., 'overt vs. o'vert, 'pulsate vs. pul'sate, etc. It is argued that cases such as these are due to the fact that the morphological structure of one and the same English word can sometimes...

1,326円 'AN EXCELLENT READ ALOUD, FUNNY, QUESTIONING AND MIND BOGGLING' -- ReadPlus For the Grown-Ups: 'Wait! Just wait!' You find yourself saying this all the time, right? Well, we're sorry, but you're gonna hate this book! This book is going to make you wait too. Once you and the kids start reading it,...

9,948円 Synthesizing a range of studies on morphological processing from the past 30 years, this edited collection presents the current state of knowledge on morphological processing and defines classroom practices to help students conceptualise the role of morphology in reading, spelling, and vocabulary...

10,938円 This book presents a detailed sociolinguistic study of the traditionally Catalan-speaking areas of Southern France, and sheds new light on language attitudes, phonetic variation, language ideologies and minority language rights. The region’s complex dual identity, both Catalan and French, both pe...