The purpose of this textbook is to establish a satisfactory technique for discovering the pertinent units of sound in any language and organizing them into an alphabet system. The first part of the book deals with the analysis and production of phonetic units. The second and major part of the book is devoted to the analysis and description of…

Analysis of Taiwanese tone sandhi, i.e., the various changes in tonemes as a result of their mutual influence on each other when used in conjunction. (RS)

The chief purposes of this book are the illustration of an analytical approach to tone languages, a methodology based upon recent linguistic advance, and the presentation of firsthand data on Mixteco and Mazateco, languages which represent two very different structural arrangements of linguistic tone. Part 1 describes some of the types of…

Paper presented at the 11th Conference on American Indian Languages, Toronto, Canada, December 1972; research supported by the Doris Duke Foundation and a University of Arizona Predoctoral Fellowship. (RS)

Assimilation refers to a segment influencing one or more neighboring segments across a word boundary. (DD)

Presents arguments to disprove the thesis that "the phoneme is a bundle of distinctive features." (RM)

A phonetic analysis of Latin long vowels is followed by a phonological analysis which asks whether these vowels are phonemes and, if so, what their distinctive features are. (AM)

Revised version of a paper read at the Canadian Linguistic Association, Montreal, Quebec, May 1972. (RS)

Research conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. (DD)

Revised and corrected version of an earlier paper. (DD)

THIS DETAILED, LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS DOES NOT CONTRAST ENGLISH AND QUECHUA PHONOLOGY AND GRAMMAR BUT RATHER ATTEMPTS TO DESCRIBE THE DISTRIBUTIONAL AND SEMANTIC CATEGORIES PARTICULAR TO CUZCO QUECHUA IN A THOROUGH AND SCIENTIFIC MANNER. IT CAN BE USED IN THE FIELD TO IDENTIFY UNFAMILIAR UTTERANCES OR TO HELP UNDERSTAND HOW NATIVE SPEAKERS…

This first English edition of Trubetzkoy's classic work, translated by Christiane A.M. Baltaxe, treats some 200 phonological systems attested in the world's languages. Central to the book is the author's "Theory of Distinctiveness" which states that there are certain minimal distinctive phonic properties that appear to be universal…

Recommends a "gapless" scheme for organizing phonemes into patterns in writing descriptions of specific languages. It is the distinctive function rather than the distinctive feature which provides symmetry. (MLA)