The French language has a grammatical gender system in which all nouns are assigned either a masculine or a feminine gender. Nouns provide two types of gender cues that can potentially guide gender attribution: morphophonological cues carried by endings and semantic cues (natural gender). The first goal of this study was to describe the…

This is a preliminary report of a study of Russian accentuation. The research attempted to show that Russian accentuation is based on a partition of all morphemes, both stems and suffixes, into those with and those without inherent stress. Simple rules then account for all stress patterns observed. (CHK)

A list of about 130 Russian words beginning with the prefix ABTO-. The German equivalents are given. (Text is in German.) (TL)

Some Spanish nouns designating non-animate things may have either feminine or masculine gender. The reasons given for the choice of gender are many and varied. It is put forward that in some cases the masculine acts as a diminutive and the feminine as an augmentative. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

Cites evidence showing that the "natural order" found using the Bilingual Syntax Measure to measure morpheme order is not an artifact of the test. (Author/AM)

Describes a study designed to discover how children approach the mass-count distinction as it applies to the use of "much" and "many." Results indicate that children do not approach the co-occurrence conditions of "much" and "many" with various nouns from a semantic point of view, but rather from a…

Phonological changes in modern Russian are described, with emphasis on vowels and the dynamic tendencies of changes in the vocalic system. (RM)

This article discusses three Spanish suffixes used in the formation of nouns and adjectives: -al, -dad, and -cion. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Revised version of paper presented at the Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Vancouver, B.C., June 1973. (DD)

Revised and expanded verion of "Zur Konjugation im Deutschen" in "Linguistiche Studien iii. Festgabe fur Paul Grebe, "Teil i, 1973. (DD)

Material collected in the Summer of 1967 under a grant from the National Science Foundation; earlier versions presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (New York, N.Y., November 1971) and the 7th International Salish Conference (Bellingham, Washington, August 1972). (DD)

Compiles Greek and Latin words used in American trade names and consumer products. (DS)

Alaska, with its history of Russian colonization, has a large stock of Russian loanwords. The majority of the loanwords discussed are for cultural and concrete items and are substances, emerging as noun words, to which paragogic endings are agglutinated. (NCR)

Examines the rendering of personal, commercial, and geographic foreign names in Chinese, in order to make some observations about Chinese script. (AM)