Coproduction and Coarticulation in Isizulu Clicks

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Kimberly Thomas-Vilakati received her PhD in Linguistics from UCLA in 2000. She has taught Linguistics at the University of Swaziland in Southern Africa. She now resides in San Bernardino! California with her immediate family! where she works on language issues pertaining to African-Americans and English Language Learners for the San Bernardino City Unified School District. Klappentext Based on the author's Ph.D. dissertation. Zusammenfassung Provides an in-depth look at the production of clicks using a variety of different techniques. This work examines how the three different click types of IsiZulu differ from each other in their production in both spatial and temporal dimensions, and considers the question of how these complex segments are integrated into the stream of speech.

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• Authors: Kimberly Thomas-Vilakati, Kimberly Diane Thomas-vilikati
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780520098763
• ISBN: 978-0-520-09876-3
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: UC Publications in Linguistics; UC Publications in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Phonetics, phonology, isiZulu (Zulu)