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Spanish-English Contrasts

A Course in Spanish Linguistics

By: Melvin Stanley Whitley

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Spanish-English Contrasts

A Course in Spanish Linguistics

By: Melvin Stanley Whitley

An invaluable text in language and linguistics because it has a unique scope: a one-volume description of the Spanish language and its differences from English, and ranges from pronunciation and grammar to word meaning, language use, and social and dialectical variation. Designed for survey courses in Spanish linguistics with technical concepts explained in context for beginners in the field, Spanish/English Contrasts brings out the ways in which insights into the two languages have evolved as scholars have built on the work and research of others in the field. A bilingual glossary of linguistic terms is provided to facilitate discussion in either language. This second edition is thoroughly updated to incorporate insights and issues that have come to the fore from the explosion of research in the past twenty-five years in all of the areas covered by the book. It includes an expanded bibliography and index, and adds new exercises for student application and class discussion. Its approach remains broadly based however, in order to accommodate a range of areas and data rather than focusing narrowly on one single theory or research area, and it continues to emphasize implications for language teaching, translation, and other practical applications.

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Georgetown University Press

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0878403817

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Pronouncing English

A Stress-based Approach, with CD-Rom

By: Richard V. Teschner,Melvin Stanley Whitley

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Pronouncing English

A Stress-based Approach, with CD-Rom

By: Richard V. Teschner,Melvin Stanley Whitley

Pronouncing English is a textbook for teaching English phonetics and phonology, offering an original "stress-based" approach while incorporating all the standard course topics. Drawing on current linguistic theory, it uniquely analyzes prosody first, and then discusses its effects on pronunciation--emphasizing suprasegmental features such as meter, stress, and intonation, then the vowels and consonants themselves. Distinguished by being the first work of its kind to be based on an exhaustive statistical analysis of all the lexical entries of an entire dictionary, Pronouncing English is complemented by a list of symbols and a glossary. Richard Teschner and M. Stanley Whitley present an improved description of English pronunciation and conclude each chapter with suggestions on how to do a better job of teaching it. An appendix with a brief introduction to acoustic phonetics--the basis for the perception vs. the production of sounds--is also included. Revolutionary in its field, Pronouncing English declares that virtually all aspects of English pronunciation--from the vowel system to the articulation of syllables, words, and sentences--are determined by the presence or absence of stress. The accompanying CD-ROM carries audio recordings of many of the volume's exercises, more than 100 text and sound files, and data files on which the statistical observations were based.

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1589010027

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The Crisis of the African-American Architect

Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and (Black) Power

By: Melvin L. Mitchell

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The Crisis of the African-American Architect

Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and (Black) Power

By: Melvin L. Mitchell

another missing piece of our rich history and profound contribution to western civilization. For history buffs please put this book on your must read list... " George C. Fraser, Author of Race For Success and Success Runs In Our Race "[Mitchell] believes that the entire future of blacks in the field of architecture is in jeopardy He then discusses the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on black architecture and the subsequent emergence of Howard University as the center of the black architectural universe..." The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education " seminal " Architecture Magazine In this long overdue book, aimed at Black America and her allies, Melvin Mitchell poses the question "why haven't black architects developed a Black Architecture that complements modernist black culture that is rooted in world-class blues, jazz, hip-hop music, and other black aesthetic forms?" His provocative thesis, inspired by Harold Cruse's landmark book, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, exposes the roots of an eighty-year-old estrangement between black architects and Black America. Along the way he provides interesting details about the politics of downtown development in the Marion Barry era of Washington, DC. Mitchell calls for a bold and inclusive "New (Black) Urbanism." He sees the radical reform and "re-missioning" of the handful of accredited HBCU based architecture schools as a critical tool in refashioning a rapprochement between black architects and Black America.

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iUniverse

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0595243266

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Spanish-English Contrasts

A Course in Spanish Linguistics

By: Melvin Stanley Whitley

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A Course in Spanish Linguistics

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Pronouncing English

A Stress-based Approach, with CD-Rom

By: Richard V. Teschner,Melvin Stanley Whitley

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A Stress-based Approach, with CD-Rom

By: Richard V. Teschner,Melvin Stanley Whitley

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Spanish-English Contrasts

Spanish-English Contrasts

Pronouncing English

Pronouncing English

The Crisis of the African-American Architect

The Crisis of the African-American Architect

Spanish-English Contrasts

Spanish-English Contrasts

Pronouncing English

Pronouncing English

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