A detailed analysis of the oral vowels in the French phoentic system and their nasal equivalents. (Text is in French.) (PMP)

The desirability of the exploitation of experimental phonetics by the phonologist is discussed, and research on vowel duration in Thai is described in support of this contention. (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)

Attempts to demonstrate that the S-O alternation in French is not phonologically but morphologically derived. (AM)

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

This article discusses the problem of identical sounds which represent different phonemes. A distinction between basic distinctive features is rejected in favor of a theory of phonological fluctuation. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Much research has focused on the question of whether phonological rules can and should be stated more appropriately in terms of the syllable than other units, notable segments and various boundaries. Formulation of rules without reference to the syllable obscures the motivation and unity of alternations. French has rules for consonant deletion…

The present work begins with a phonetic description of the acceptable French /R/ and descriptions of several allophones of English /R/ which must be avoided while learning the French. Various theories are discussed concerning the relationship between the position of the /R/ in an utterance and the difficulty students have in pronouncing it…

Discusses the relationship among Latin, English, and modern French vocabulary. (AM)

This paper is an investigation of nasal vowels from both a synchronic and a diachronic point of view. Data from over 50 languages have been examined (some languages in much more detail than others) in an attempt to distinguish the aspects of vowel nasalization that are "universal" from those phenomena that are language-specific. This study is…