Shortened version of this paper was presented in New York, N.Y., March 14, 1970, at the Fifteenth Annual National Conference on Linguistics sponsored by The International Linguistic Association. (RS)

Describes differences between colloquial and literary pronunciation of Hainan. (AM)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Structional analysis of the spoken French in four regions of North America. (Text is in French.) (PMP)

Discusses the laryngealized (aspirated and glottalized) obstruent consonants in the phonological systems of the Quechua dialects of the Cuzco-Puno region and Bolivia. (RM)

This article discusses the history of the Galician language. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

The 25 communities that were chosen for the Indiana portion of the Linguistic Atlas of the United States project were selected in part to provide coverage of an area but in some instances because of their early settlement, location on a migration route, or geographical features. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire which contained…

Attempts to classify the differences between Quebec French and Standard French, and contrasts arguments in favor of integrating Quebec French with the Standard with arguments in favor of maintaining lexical separation. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)

Describes the phonology of Hainan, with particular attention to the tone system. (Author/AM)

A COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF SPOKEN WORDS AND PHRASES WAS OBTAINED IN 1959 FROM THE RESPONSES OF 33 NATIVE INFORMANTS FROM 23 COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE, GEORGIA, MISSISSIPPI, AND ALABAMA. INFORMANTS WERE ASKED TO IDENTIFY PICTURES, AND THEIR RESPONSES WERE RECORDED ON TAPE AND TRANSCRIBED. A COMPUTER WAS UTILIZED TO PRODUCE LISTINGS OF PARTICULAR SPEECH…

Paper prepared under contract with the Defense Language Institute, English Language Branch, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and presented to the staff and faculty of the Institute in 1972. (RS)

Describes the connective suffixes used in Coast Tsimshian and Southern Tsimshian. (AM)

This is a report on the different types of studies of the regional varieties of French that have been carried out in Belgium from 1945 to the present. The majority of the studies have been done by Belgians, and have to do with regional varieties of French spoken in Belgium. Some, however, examine African or American varieties. Chapter 1 deals with…

Ongoing research conducted by the Welsh Language Research Unit of Cardiff, Wales is described. This research has concentrated mainly on recording and describing the phonology of some varieties of Welsh spoken in South-East Wales, particularly as it is associated with geographic areas and affected by population changes resulting from industrial…

This work seeks to fill important gaps existing in the study of Peninsular Arabic, especially that of the United Arab Emirates. It presents an explicit outline of the structure of Gulf Arabic, based on the dialect of Abu Dhabi. It is intended for students and teachers of Gulf Arabic, for linguists and dialectologists, and for other individuals who…