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)

In this paper the author examines two kinds of phonological interference observable in the speech of Puerto Rican bilinguals--phonemic and prosodic, and argues that because these two phonological subsystems are structured differently and have different signaling functions, each kind of interference must be treated independently with regard to its…

Examines the structure and linguistic functions of stress in Basque. (AM)

Considers the behavior of certain classes of personal pronouns which have come to be known as clitics, covering the categories of clitic pronouns as special elements, a framework for clitics, stressed clitics, clitic doubling, Piedmontese clitic inversion, subject clitics, clitic clustering, clitic movement, and causative and perception verbs. (CB)

Research accomplished in connection with the Southeastern Indian Language Project and supported by a grant to the University of Georgia from the National Science Foundation. (RS)

The role of allophonic differences in contributing to the non-native speaker's "foreign accent." (FWB)

It was determined that suprasegmental features effect the ability of very young children (3 years) to decide whether strings of words are to be treated as sentences or nonsentences, whereas for adults and older children grammatical cues alone suffice. (FWB)

Contends that the acquisition of fluent reading competency involves beginning readers' tacit recognition that they must learn to compensate for the absence of prosodic cues in the written signal by making use of the cues that are preserved. (HOD)

Discusses trends and developments in generative phonology; metatheory and evidence in phonology; and segments, features, and marking. (RL)

Experiments were conducted to examine the influence of syntactic boundaries on the operation of a phonological rule in speech production. Results indicate that traditional metrics of boundary strength, as well as linguistic formulations of phonological rules, must be elaborated to recognize the special status of clause boundaries and deletion…

Examines previously published experimental work on rhythm of spoken Spanish to establish whether or not Spanish is a "syllable-timed" language. Analyzes figures from the experiments and concludes that Spanish is neither stress-timed nor syllable-timed, displaying an antirhythmic pattern where each segment has a "standard duration" dependent on its…

Presents experimental evidence supporting the assertion that successive single-word utterances share certain suprasegmental characteristics with multiple-word utterances and that they are therefore not single words but the first manifestation of syntax in speech. (AM)

This study examined 18 22-to-34-month-old children's truncation patterns in multisyllabic words. In strong-weak-strong-weak and strong-weak-weak words, final unstressed syllables were more frequently preserved than nonfinal unstressed syllables. Results revealed a significant stress pattern effect on truncation rate and support the interaction…

The study examined the relationship between 28 segmental and suprasegmental acoustic parameters of speech production and measures of speech intelligibility for 40 severely to profoundly hearing-impaired persons (mean age 21 years). Findings support the tractability of employing selected acoustic variables for the estimation of speech…