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)

This paper examines the distinction between primary and secondary articulations of consonants. It shows that the description and classification of speech sounds should not be based on physical parameters alone. Some essential distinctions reveal themselves only inferentially through the relation of a sound to others in the language system.…

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)

Presents a "phonetological" approach for the improvement of the phonetic transcription of English, in order to account for certain distinctions in the language not currently rendered due to phonemic influence on phonetic transcription. (AM)

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

Describes a study designed to determine whether children's conceptualization of the component sounds in words is influenced by knowledge of the words' spelling using real and made-up words. Shows the phonemic segmentation skill may be a consequence of as much as a prerequisite to learning real words. (Author/BK)

Reports on two studies on the acquisition by children of the voicing contrast in Mexican Spanish word-initial stops. The first was a longitudinal study. One analysis showed children unable to distinguish between voiced-voiceless stop cognate pairs at age 3;10. A spirantization analysis, however, more clearly revealed the children's phonological…

Discusses the difficulties in diagnosing phonetic and phonemic disorders in aphasics. (AM)

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)

Reply to the article by Victoria Fromkin, FL 501 940. (VM)

The term generative phonolgy refers to statements, rules or axioms which can produce all but only those well-formed utterances of a language. The goal of this theory is to make precise and explicit the ability of native speakers to produce utterances of a particular language. In generative phonology, the level of the phoneme is redefined to match…

This article discusses the concept of the archiphoneme and specifically defends the notion of neutralization. (Text is in French.) (CLK)