Research supported by the Science Research Council. (DD)

Paper presented at the 1st All India Conference of Linguists, Poona, India, December 1970. (DD)

Special issue on "Changing Linguistics." (DD)

Research supported by grants from the National Institute of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health. (DD)

Paper presented at the 16th Annual Conference, International Linguistics Association, New York, New York, March 13, 1971. (VM)

Presents data on discrimination and identification of synthetic rounded and unrounded vowels by speakers of English and Swedish. Tables, graphs, and bibliography. (RW)

Data on the durations of vowels preceding voiced and voiceless stops in three normal speakers and three esophageal speakers (who had had laryngectomies) suggested that the vowel length variations that were observed were language-specific, governed by phonological rules of English, and were not language universals. (Author/RL)

Three lexical decision experiments show that Serbo-Croatian letter-strings are ascribed two phonological readings simultaneously. This phonologic bivalence may impede lexical decision making if the letter-string has a lexical entry in one of the alphabets (Roman and Cyrillic). (RL)

Using recognition tests with new and old exemplars (multiple-component characters) and prototypes (common components), the traditional language learning technique of paired-associate training with exemplars of Chinese characters and specific English translations led to the poorest performance of the three methods tested. Learning either exemplars…

Distinctive feature specification and representation in phonological acquisition are examined in 30 children in the context of underspecification theory. Three questions were addressed: which features do children use to categorize segmental information; do the defining features of a category shift as the phonological system advances; and which…

Reviews studies in which perceptual cue trading data have been compared with computational models and examines the perception of contrast between the voiceless fricative "s" and the voiceless affricate "ts." Nine subjects listened to a total of 6 tokens each of 193 stimuli and labeled each stimulus as containing either of the…