Author: Peter Ladefoged
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: consonants, vowels
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-01-14
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 1405124598
ISBN-13: 9781405124591

This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics is now available in a fully updated second edition. Peter Ladefoged describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages. Important topics covered in Vowels and Consonants include: * The main forces operating on the sounds of languages * The acoustic components of speech and speech synthesis * Computers and Text-To-Speech systems and speech recognition systems * Descriptions of the sounds of a wide variety of languages that are reproduc

Author: Priscilla Turner
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Keywords: consonants, vowels, war
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1999-09-10
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0374482179
ISBN-13: 9780374482176

The unknown history of lettersFor as long as any letter could remember, Vowels and Consonants had been enemies.U without N? Q without U? Mpssh! you say. Yet once, long ago, P’s and Q’s minded their p’s and q’s, and though U and I deserved not one iota of respect. For their part, Vowels knew only that the dot on the youngest i was far moe important than the most capital W.And so they came to wage a fierce war to prove who were the better letters. But as S’s outflank E’s and O’s surround H’s, an enemy of all the alphabet appers on the horizon--one

Author: DORIS L. MURRAY
Publisher: Academy for English Studies of Dallas
Keywords: vowels, hyper, italk, american
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-12-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0615174337
ISBN-13: 9780615174334

Author: Trish Vowels
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials, Inc
Keywords: children, skills, listening
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0743932641
ISBN-13: 9780743932646

Help children develop their listening skills and prepare for formal learning. Activities teach children to focus, interpret, recall, organize, and carry out multiple tasks in order.

Author: Peter Ladefoged
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: languages, sounds, introduction, consonants, vowels
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2000-10-10
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0631214127
ISBN-13: 9780631214120

This superb introduction to phonetics, with its accompanying CD, is perfect for anyone who wants to learn about the sounds of languages. Peter Ladefoged, one of the world’s leading phoneticians, describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages. People trill their lips and click their tongues when talking in ways that are amazing to English speakers. Several of these unusual sounds are reproduced on the CD. The book opens with a brief introduction to the main forces working on the sounds of languages. Using basic

Author: Kim Cernek
Publisher: Creative Teaching Press, Inc.
Keywords: skill, instant, books, build, digraphs, vowels, amp, vowel, controlled
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-02-26
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1591984130
ISBN-13: 9781591984139

Each book in the series features a variety of reproducible, child-created mini-books designed to help students gain mastery of reading and math skills. Ideal for take-home practice and to strengthen the home-school connection.

Author: A. Cohe
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: english, consonants, standard, vowels, study, phonemic, phonemes
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 1971-07-31
List price: $123.00
ISBN-10: 9024706394
ISBN-13: 9789024706396