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Tone, the use of pitch to provide phonological contrast between morphemes, plays an integral role in the structures of many languages. This book teaches linguists a tried-and-proven methodology for analyzing tone in any part of the world. Significant features: • Delivers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to tone analysis for field linguists • Emphasizes the discovery of contrastive tone patterns of morphemes, as opposed to contrastive tones of tone-bearing units • Focuses on keeping constant all factors that can potentially affect tone, so that utterances being compared are truly comparable • Includes a chapter on the phonetic properties of pitch • Presents princip...
A progressive course for teaching full band, any combination of band instruments, or for individual use.
A renowned artist and expert instructor shows how to depictbirds of all kinds, from a baby robin to a flying osprey.Accompanied by more than 350 easy-to-follow illustrations,the nearly 60 lessons begin with basic line drawings, advancingto the use of pen, pencil, and ink wash techniques to producetexture and movement in realistic sketches.Reprint of the Contemporary Books, Inc., Chicago, 1990 edition
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
This is the first book-length study of phonological development and impairment of Chinese-speaking children. It provides the first normative data on this population, which will be of value to speech and language therapists and other professionals. It also advances the notion of 'phonological saliency' which explains the cross-linguistic similarities and differences in children's phonological development.