CERTAIN LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES OF GANDA, CLASSIFIED AS A BANTU LANGUAGE OF UGANDA, WERE STUDIED AND REPORTED. STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF THE LANGUAGE WERE PRESENTED AT THE WORD AND PHRASE LEVEL, AND THE PRELIMINARIES TO A FORMAL STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS WERE REPRESENTED, INCLUDING TONOMORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES. THIS FIRST PART OF A THREE-PART STUDY DEALT WITH…

Vowel mutation in Welsh is outlined. A proposal that two classes of compounds exist in Welsh is based on the occurrence of vowel mutation in words and in certain compounds. Evidence from stress patterns and from non-phonological aspects of the grammar support this. An alternative proposal is discussed and rejected. Available from the MIT Press, 28…

Part of a special issue, "Materialien zur Rechtschreibung und ihrer Reform" (Materials on Orthograp and Its Reform). (DD)

The paper presents a set of linguistic phenomena illustrative of the notion "universal tendency". Linguistic generalizations are regarded here not as isolated, "true-or-false" propositions but as embedded in a hierarchy of competing forces. An "exception" to a universal is thus seen as the result of the prevalence of another conflicting universal…

Outlines phonological structure and processes of American Sign Language (ASL), covering: (1) sequential phenomena found in the production of individual signs; (2) the segmental phonetic transcription system; (3) paradigmatic and syntagmatic contrasts in ASL signs; (4) similarities between ASL and spoken language phonological processes; and (5)…