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Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Year

2011

ISBN

9783110889451

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Linguistics

Index

Languages & Linguistics

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION (Linda R. Waugh)
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION (Linda R. Waugh)
Chapter One Speech Sounds and Their Tasks
I. Spoonerisms
II. Sense Discrimination
III. Homonymy
IV. Doublets
V. Early Search
VI. Invariance and Relativity
VII. Quest for Oppositions
VIII. Features and Phonemes
IX. Speech Sounds and the Brain
X. Redundancy
XI. Configurative Features
XII. Stylistic Variations
XIII. Physiognomic Indices
XIV. The Distinctive Features in Relation to the Other Components of the Speech Sound
XV. The Identification of Distinctive Features
XVI. Sense Discrimination and Sense Determination
XVII. Autonomy and Integration
XVIII. Universals
XIX. Speech Perception
XX. Life and Language
XXI. Role of Learning
XXII. Speech and Visualized Language
XXIII. Multiformity and Conformism
XXIV. Inner Speech
Chapter Two Quest for the Ultimate Constituents
I. To the Memory of Pierre Delattre
II. Vowel ~ Consonant
III. Syllabicity
IV. Markedness
V. Grave ~ Acute
VI. Production and Decoding
VII. Compact ~ Diffuse
VIII. Sharpness and Flatness
IX. Interrelation of Tonality Features
X. And What Now?
Chapter Three The Network of Distinctive Features
I. Significance of the Distinctive Features
II. The Two Axes
III. Nasality
IV. Voiced ~ Voiceless and Tense ~ Lax
V. Strident ~ Mellow
VI. Consonantal Correspondences to the Prosodic Features
VII. Vowel Harmony
VIII. Glides
IX. The Nascent Sound Shape
X. Dynamic Synchrony
XI. Vistas
Chapter Four The Spell of Speech Sounds
I. Sound Symbolism
II. Synesthesia
III. Word Affinities
IV. Sound-Symbolic Ablaut
V. Speech Sounds in Mythopoeic Usage
VI. Verbal Taboo
VII. Glossolalia
VIII. Sound as the Basis of Verse
IX. Children's Verbal Art
X. Saussure's poétique phonisante Seen from Today
XI. Inferences from a Cummings Poem
XII. Language and Poetry
AFTERWORD
APPENDIX ONE The Role of Phonic Elements in Speech Perception
APPENDIX TWO On the Sound Shape of Language: Mediacy and Immediacy by Linda R. Waugh
REFERENCES
INDEX OF NAMES
INDEX OF LANGUAGES
INDEX OF TOPICS DISCUSSED