LINGUIST List 8.862

Thu Jun 12 1997

Books: Available for review

Editor for this issue: Andrew Carnie <carnielinguistlist.org>

The books listed below are in the LINGUIST office and now
available for review. If you are interested in reviewing
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PRONUNCIATION OF MUSIC NAMES

Fradkin, Robert A. 1996. The Well Tempered Announcer: A pronunciation
guide to Classical Music. Indiana University Press. Bloomington.

Radio announcers have very few resources for learning to pronounce
foreign words and anmes associated with classical music. In this 
innovateive guide, Fradkin provides the pronunciation of over 2000
names, titles and musical terms. Fradkin explains the principles of
pronunciation of about 2 dozen languages and provides clues for 
identifying the language fo a strange word and making an 
educated guess at its pronunciation. 

• Blackwells
• Cascadilla Press
• Cornell University Linguistics Dept.
• CSLI Publications
• John Benjamins
• Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Lawrence Erlbaum
• MIT Working papers in Linguistics
• U. of Massachusetts Graduate Linguistics Association
• Pacific Linguistics Publications
• Summer Institute of Linguistics