Product Description: Fonética y fonología españolas has been completely revised and updated for the fourth edition. The text serves as an introduction to the phonetics and phonology of the Spanish language and aids English speaking students in acquiring a (semi-)native pronunciation, while minimizing their foreign accent...read more

Product Description: An introduction to the pronunciation of ``general Latin American Spanish''. Written in clear, simple Spanish. Includes sections covering corrective phonetics for native speakers of English learning Spanish, articulatory phonetics, phonological analysis with emphasis on the phoneme, the major variants in the pronunciation of Spanish in Spain and Latin America, the pronunciation of Spanish in the U...read more

Product Description: This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002)...read more

Product Description: This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002)...read more

Product Description: This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference Palenque, Cartagena y Afro-Caribe conexiones históricas y lingüísticas, Cartagena, Colombia, held at the University of Cartagena in late 1996. The volume features 17 articles by leading figures in the fields of Afro-Hispanic linguistics, creolistics, history, and anthropology...read more

Product Description: This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997. The 22 papers deal with current issues in linguistic theory as they can be illuminated by the close analysis and comparative study of Romance languages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997. The 22 papers deal with current issues in linguistic theory as they can be illuminated by the close analysis and comparative study of Romance languages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A user-friendly manual for correcting students' pronunciation. It provides an excellent introduction to Spanish phonological and orthographical systems, including dialectical variations in the Hispanic world. Noted for its clarity and extensive use of computer graphics, this edition addresses concerns raised by the ACTFL Proficiency movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.