Bahasa Indonesia merupakan bahasa persatuan, kebangsaan, dan negara. Ditetapkan sebagai bahasa persatuan, kerena bahasa Indonesia dapat dijadikan alat perekat kesatuan seluruh warga Indonesia yang cenderung menggunakan berbagai bahasa ibu (bahasa daerah). Sehingga dengan bahasa Indonesia, spirit nasionalisme dari seluruh warga Indonesia senantiasa terjaga. Melihat pentingnya fungsi bahasa I…
The best-selling English Pronunciation in Use is a comprehensive reference and practice book suitable for self-study or classroom work. Sixty easy-to-use units cover all aspects of pronunciation, including individual sounds, word stress, connected speech and intonation. An additional reference section offers a glossary of specialized terms, help with the pronunciation of numbers and geographica…
Student Text/Audio Tape Package for PRONOUNCING AMERICAN ENGLISH. Package includes 8 audio tapes.
This section introduces some of the main components of speech which together combine to form the pronunciation of a language. These components range from the individual sounds that make up speech, to the way in which pitch - the rise and fall of the voice-is used to convey meaning. The particular characteristics of English pronunciation are highlighted, together with important differences betwe…
Pronunciation practice. Student's book.Effective pronunciation involves accurate production of individual sounds in a total language situation including stress and intonation. Sounds English is a course which trains students in this complex area of language learning. Each Unit starts with intensive practice in hearing and saying particular sounds, then moves on to real-life contexts where stres…
This book reviews the history of the interface between morpho-syntax and phonology roughly since World War II. Structuralist and generative interface thinking is presented chronologically, but also theory by theory from the point of view of a historically interested observer who however in the last third of the book distills lessons in order to assess present-day interface theories, and to esta…
This book is a guide for linguistic fieldworkers who wish to write a description of the morphology and syntax of one of the world's many underdocumented languages. It offers readers who work through it one possible outline for a grammatical description, with many questions designed to help them address the key topics. Appendices offer guidance on text and elicited data, and on sample reference …
This book is intended to help teachers with an aspect of english which many view as full of perplexities - pronunciation. Teachers observe their learners trying to pronounce english and realize something is wrong. But exactly what is wrong and why? How does one account for the fact that learners seem to vary so much? Some learners seem to have few pronunciation problems, others have a great man…
The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework. They compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones.
This is the first book on the syntax of a Niger-Conger language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Aboh, who is a native speaker of one of the languages (Gungbe) discussed, analyzes different aspects of the syntax of the "Kwa" language group. Aboh also suggests how grammatical pictures for these languages can shed some light on Universal Grammar in general.