The Sound Shape of Language
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The Sound Shape of Language

  1. 349 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Sound Shape of Language

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Table of contents

  1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  2. NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION
  3. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION (Linda R. Waugh)
  4. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION (Linda R. Waugh)
  5. Chapter One Speech Sounds and Their Tasks
  6. I. Spoonerisms
  7. II. Sense Discrimination
  8. III. Homonymy
  9. IV. Doublets
  10. V. Early Search
  11. VI. Invariance and Relativity
  12. VII. Quest for Oppositions
  13. VIII. Features and Phonemes
  14. IX. Speech Sounds and the Brain
  15. X. Redundancy
  16. XI. Configurative Features
  17. XII. Stylistic Variations
  18. XIII. Physiognomic Indices
  19. XIV. The Distinctive Features in Relation to the Other Components of the Speech Sound
  20. XV. The Identification of Distinctive Features
  21. XVI. Sense Discrimination and Sense Determination
  22. XVII. Autonomy and Integration
  23. XVIII. Universals
  24. XIX. Speech Perception
  25. XX. Life and Language
  26. XXI. Role of Learning
  27. XXII. Speech and Visualized Language
  28. XXIII. Multiformity and Conformism
  29. XXIV. Inner Speech
  30. Chapter Two Quest for the Ultimate Constituents
  31. I. To the Memory of Pierre Delattre
  32. II. Vowel ~ Consonant
  33. III. Syllabicity
  34. IV. Markedness
  35. V. Grave ~ Acute
  36. VI. Production and Decoding
  37. VII. Compact ~ Diffuse
  38. VIII. Sharpness and Flatness
  39. IX. Interrelation of Tonality Features
  40. X. And What Now?
  41. Chapter Three The Network of Distinctive Features
  42. I. Significance of the Distinctive Features
  43. II. The Two Axes
  44. III. Nasality
  45. IV. Voiced ~ Voiceless and Tense ~ Lax
  46. V. Strident ~ Mellow
  47. VI. Consonantal Correspondences to the Prosodic Features
  48. VII. Vowel Harmony
  49. VIII. Glides
  50. IX. The Nascent Sound Shape
  51. X. Dynamic Synchrony
  52. XI. Vistas
  53. Chapter Four The Spell of Speech Sounds
  54. I. Sound Symbolism
  55. II. Synesthesia
  56. III. Word Affinities
  57. IV. Sound-Symbolic Ablaut
  58. V. Speech Sounds in Mythopoeic Usage
  59. VI. Verbal Taboo
  60. VII. Glossolalia
  61. VIII. Sound as the Basis of Verse
  62. IX. Children's Verbal Art
  63. X. Saussure's poétique phonisante Seen from Today
  64. XI. Inferences from a Cummings Poem
  65. XII. Language and Poetry
  66. AFTERWORD
  67. APPENDIX ONE The Role of Phonic Elements in Speech Perception
  68. APPENDIX TWO On the Sound Shape of Language: Mediacy and Immediacy by Linda R. Waugh
  69. REFERENCES
  70. INDEX OF NAMES
  71. INDEX OF LANGUAGES
  72. INDEX OF TOPICS DISCUSSED