Reports on analyses of stress patterns and syllable length for male names, female names, and English nouns, exploring such differences as female names having more syllables, female names typically beginning with unstressed syllables, and male names typically forming the unmarked case. (24 references) (CB)

An analysis of stress patterns in Old English, from the perspective of a framework based on lexicalist metrical phonology, indicates that there was a central Old English stress rule that operated from left-to-right, in contrast to to the central rule for present day English. (46 references) (Author/CB)

Revised version of a paper published in the "Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics," n1. (DD)

Presents an analysis of colloquial-spoken Thai, showing how different tempi can be interrelated. Analysis of language processes, deletion paths, and syllable structure leads to the conclusion that phonological processes found synchronically in related but different rates of delivery should be captured by a universally applicable rule with certain…