Untuk melestarikan bahasa daerah yang terancam punah, perlu dilakukan pendokumentasian melalui penelitian. Salah satu bahasa yang diteliti ialah bahasa Hitu dialek Hitu. Bahasa Hitu merupakan salah satu bahasa yang dituturkan di Kabupaten Maluku Tengah, Provinsi Maluku. Bahasa Hitu terdiri atas 15 dialek, salah satunya dialek Hitu. Buku ini mengulas fonetik dan fonologi bahasa Hitu dialek Hitu …
Research in linguistics, as in most other scientific domains, is usually approached in a modular way – narrowing the domain of inquiry in order to allow for increased depth of study. This is necessary and productive for a topic as wide-ranging and complex as human language. However, precisely because language is a complex system, tied to perception, learning, memory, and social organization, …
This volume investigates the realisation and perception of four phonological variables in Liverpool English (Scouse), with a special focus on their sociolinguistic salience. Younger speakers’ speech is found to be more local, but only for the two salient variables in the sample (NURSE-SQUARE and /k/ lenition), which appear to carry considerable amounts of covert prestige. Local variants of no…
The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure. Syllable patterns involving long sequences of consonants are both typologically rare and theoretically marginalized, with few approaches treating these as natural or unproblematic structures. This book is an inve…
A conversation between two people can only take place if the words intended by each speaker are successfully recognized. Spoken word recognition is at the heart of language comprehension. This automatic and smooth process remains a challenge for models of spoken word recognition. Both the process of mapping the speech signal onto stored representations for words, and the format of the represent…