Vowels and Consonants

Vowels and Consonants

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  • Author: Peter Ladefoged
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 144435504X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 242

This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, and expanded coverage of topics such as speech technology. Describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages Written by the late Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, with updates by renowned forensic linguist, Sandra Ferrari Disner Includes numerous revisions to the discussion of speech technology and additional updates throughout the book Explores the acoustic, articulatory, and perceptual components of speech, demonstrates speech synthesis, and explains how speech recognition systems work Supported by an accompanying website at www.vowelsandconsonants3e.com featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life


The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants

The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants

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  • Author: Priscilla Turner
  • Publisher: Square Fish
  • ISBN: 9780374482176
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

The unknown history of letters For 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 which neither Vowels or Consonants can conquer alone. In this hilarious look at the hidden life of letters, Priscilla and Whitney Turner reveal how sworn enemies become allies and discovered what you and I now take for granted: that the pen is mightier than the swrd.


Vowels and Consonants

Vowels and Consonants

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  • Author: Peter Ladefoged
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN: 9781405124584
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 224

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 reproduced on the accompanying CD. This revised edition includes a new chapter on how we listen to speech and the greatly expanded CD now contains data on 100 languages to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life.


Consonants

Consonants

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  • Author: Wiley Blevins
  • Publisher: Red Chair Press
  • ISBN: 1634405498
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

The alphabet has 26 letters—21 of them are consonants. They can be combined with vowels to build words. Let's discover what some of the most common consonants can do.


Short Vowels

Short Vowels

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  • Author: Wiley Blevins
  • Publisher: Sound It Out (Look! Books (Tm)
  • ISBN: 1634403525
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 19

"The alphabet has 26 letters. Five of them are vowels: a-e-i-o-u. They can make long and short sounds. The short vowels can be used to build many simple words. Readers learn what these short vowels can do."--


Sound It Vowels and Consonants

Sound It Vowels and Consonants

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  • Publisher: EDCON Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 9780848100544
  • Category : Reading
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 110


Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras

Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras

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  • Author: James D'Angelo
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1620550024
  • Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 103

A practical guide to vocally resonating your energetic and psychological centers to balance the emotions, purify the soul, and dissipate negative states • Explores the intimate connections between specific sounds and syllables, the 7 chakras, and their corresponding psychological traits • Provides toning exercises using these seed sounds to re-tune and purify the chakras, leading to spiritual transformation and wholeness as energetic blockages and negative states are dissipated • Includes 66 minutes of audio tracks to guide you through each exercise and the toning of each chakra’s sounds Using the Sacred Alphabet--the universal sounds of all languages--sound-healing teacher James D’Angelo explores the intimate connections between vowel, consonant, and syllable combinations, each of the 7 chakras, and their corresponding psychological traits. He explains, for example, how the vowel sound “uh” connects to the root chakra and is found in such words as “support” and “trust,” words deeply linked to the emotional character of this chakra. Revealing the voice as the master instrument for transformation--attested by the spiritual traditions that use chanting as an aid to enlightenment--he provides an extensive selection of vocal exercises to re-tune and purify each chakra and dissipate any related negative states as well as exercises that incorporate multiple chakras for general well-being. The accompanying 66-minutes of audio tracks guide you through each exercise and the proper toning of each chakra’s sounds. In uniting these sacred seed sounds with their corresponding chakras and psychologies, the author shows how you can enhance the power of these syllables and purposefully harness them for healing, states of deep meditation, and spiritual development. By bringing you closer to the voice of the Absolute, your own voice can be the conduit to the blissful union the soul so deeply desires.


Complex Vowels

Complex Vowels

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  • Author: Wiley Blevins
  • Publisher: Sound It Out (Look! Books (Tm)
  • ISBN: 163440341X
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 36

"Vowel teams can make both long and complex vowel sounds. The special complex vowel teams can be spelled in many different ways. They can be used to build common words we use every day. Readers discover what these complex vowels can do."--


The Sounds of Language

The Sounds of Language

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  • Author: Elizabeth C. Zsiga
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1405191031
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 502

The Sounds of Language is an introductory guide to the linguistic study of speech sounds, which provides uniquely balanced coverage of both phonology and phonetics. Features exercises and problem sets, as well as supporting online resources at www.wiley.com/go/zsiga, including additional discussion questions and exercises, as well as links to further resources such as sound files, video files, and useful websites Creates opportunities for students to practice data analysis and hypothesis testing Integrates data on sociolinguistic variation, first language acquisition, and second language learning Explores diverse topics ranging from the practical, such as how to make good digital recordings, make a palatogram, solve a phoneme/allophone problem, or read a spectrogram; to the theoretical, including the role of markedness in linguistic theory, the necessity of abstraction, features and formal notation, issues in speech perception as distinct from hearing, and modelling sociolinguistic and other variations Organized specifically to fit the needs of undergraduate students of phonetics and phonology, and is structured in a way which enables instructors to use the text both for a single semester phonetics and phonology course or for a two-course sequence


Whose Shoes Would You Choose?

Whose Shoes Would You Choose?

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  • Author: Brian P. Cleary
  • Publisher: Millbrook Press ™
  • ISBN: 1541501667
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

Come along with me and learn all about reading! Brian P. Cleary's wacky sentences and Jason Miskimins's colorful art will make phonics fun! Find activities, games, and more at www.brianpcleary.com.