Old English had a rich array of inventive and intriguing words, many of which have either long since dropped out of use or ...

Each chapter addresses a major aspect of phonology, including the segmental inventories, complex phonotactic systems, alternations, prosodic phonology and morphology, the behaviour of phonological ...

Every language has an organised sound system. Phonology is concerned with processes in the mind, determining the rules of a language and how we organise, study and form sounds in speech. We each have ...

Bringing together researchers from around the globe, this volume is the first full, book-length treatment of the phonetics and phonology of heritage languages. Each chapter examines understudied ...

This results in 46 distinct letters, almost double the number used in the English alphabet. The phonology of Japanese is mercifully quite simple. If we were to use a syllabic writing system for ...

seems to have acoustic similarities with normal approximant /r/ (as in Standard British and American English), and functions as /r/ in that person's phonology, to call the 'w'-like /r/ sound a ...

Fart. Booty. Tinkle. Weiner. We know these words have the ability to make otherwise mature individuals laugh, but how? And ...

My main research interest is sound change, and I focus particularly on theories of diachronic phonology and the interface of phonetics and phonology. In addition to phonological theory and historical ...

It is not pronounced except in the liaison phenomenon, though it required in the orthographic system. We will not attempt to cover the phonology of French grammatical categories here. Similar to the ...

Among 23 words of Japanese origin added to the Oxford English Dictionary in a 2024 update is katsu, an example of a ...