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On Words and Sounds

A Selection of Papers from the 40th PLM, 2009

Edited By: Kamila Dębowska-Kozłowska, Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk

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On Words and Sounds explores the theme “Variants, Variability, Variation.” These articles will appeal to an academic readership, investigating interrelationships among phonetics, syntax, and other disciplines, as well as between language and music.

The present volume On Words and Sounds is a collection of selected papers from PLM 2009. The Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) is an annual international…

The present volume On Words and Sounds is a collection of selected papers from PLM 2009. The Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) is an annual international general linguistics conference. The book consists of fifteen articles, each of which can be read separately or in relation to others. The book will definitely appeal to the academic readership interested in linguistic disciplines such as: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and clinical linguistics. Collectively, the contributions investigate the interrelationships among those disciplines as well as between language and music. The central aim for the scholars was to explore the PLM 2009 leitmotif “Variants, Variability, Variation” and show that the complete study of language involves diversified frameworks often rooted in interdisciplinary approaches.

Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk is Professor and Head of the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. She is also Head of the Centre for Speech and Language Processing at AMU. She has published extensively on phonology, phonetics and second language acquisition. In her works she has been pursuing and advocating the Natural Linguistic approach to language. Her books include A Theory of Second Language Acquisition within the framework of Natural Phonology and Beats-and-Binding Phonology. Her recent research focuses on phonotactics and morphonotactics.

Kamila Dębowska-Kozłowska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Pragmatics of English at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. She received a PhD in Linguistics at AMU in 2008. Her doctoral dissertation “Extending the pragma-dialectical model of argumentation (on the basis of naturally occurring discussions in English and Polish)” was devoted to argumentative discourse studied from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics. She has published on pragmatics, rhetoric and dialectics.