Special issue on "Changing Linguistics." (DD)

Discusses formalized systems for representing grammatical structure. (DD)

Original version of this paper presented during the 1970 Linguistic Institute in Columbus, Ohio. (VM)

Research supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health. (VM)

Research supported by a Canada Council Leave Fellowship and the President's Research Fund, Simon Fraser University, Canada. (VM)

Fourteen two-year-olds were presented with minimal word pairs in a new and efficient experimental perception paradigm. Data provide a view of relative difficulty of various minimal phonological contrasts for children. (CHK)

This article describes a study designed to test the basic notions of the verbo-tonal method of error correction in second language learning, a method based on an awareness of the phonological system of the speaker's native language and its influence on the phonological system of the target language. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Presents a framework for prosodic analysis of children with language impairments based on systemic phonology. English prosody and speaker usage is discussed; the role of tone, stress, rhythm, and pause are considered; and speech samples are used to show how utterances are broken down into prosodic units. (Author/CR)

Investigated were the phonological process and distinctive feature performances of 24 Down Syndrome individuals without speech-language intervention and 21 with speech-language intervention. Comparisons were made across groups to relate performances to age groups, the possibility that subjects' speech is delayed or deviant, and methods of…

Luo-speaking children in Kenya responded to a test using nonce forms in morphophonology. Morphophonological processes in the acquisition of Luo plurals and possessives presented different degrees of difficulty for the subjects, with the type of morphophonological alteration in a language likely to affect the rate and order of acquisition.…

Analysis of C-test elicited data from a project monitoring the continuous second-language development of college students indicated that language processing did not depend on native or target language status but on the difficulty of the lexical task, and that there was some measure of interaction between native and target lexical processing. (38…

Contrastive feature hierarchies have been developed and used for some time in depicting typical phonological development and in guiding therapy decisions. Previous descriptions of feature use have been based on independent analyses and usually phonetic inventories. However, recent trends in phonology include a relational analysis of phonemic…