The article accounts for the phenomenon of aspiration in Jaffna Tamil, a dialect distinct form South Indian dialects of Tamil. Not being distinctive orphonologically determined, aspiration is dealt with as a prosodic feature affecting voiceless stops in various positions. Distribution and symbolic representation are handled; kymographic evidence…

Sentences were read by six informants to determine the presence or absence of /n/ in /nth/ sequences. The sentences contained seven different levels of juncture with /nth/ occurring in word final position, intervocalically, and across word boundaries, among other places. Dental coarticulation was not hindered by most junctures. (SC)

Dental fricatives are examined within the two languages to show that the phonemes do not differ merely in voicing. Frisian has a "v" which is phonologically related to "w." Marathi has an aspirated "v." The use of "f" and "v" in English by speakers of Marathi and Flemish is also examined. (SC)

The salience of voiced onset time (VOT) as a voicing cue for initial stop-vowel units is examined. VOT duration was altered. Findings did not indicate that changes in VOT duration altered the perception of voicing. Aspiration more than VOT seems to be more important in the detection of voicing. (SC)

Describes two experiments which investigated the use of distinctive feature codes in the storage of phonetic encoding information by 6- and 7-year-olds during short term memory tasks. A total of 106 children were presented with 30 lists of consonant-vowel syllables for recall. Data indicate that children encode the consonantal phones into sets of…

CERTAIN FEATURES IN THE MEXICAN PRONUNCIATION OF NASAL CONSONANTS ARE PRESENTED HERE AND LINGUISTIC GENERALIZATIONS ARE FORMULATED--FIRST IN TERMS OF A CURRENT THEORY OF UNIVERSAL PHONOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVE FEATURES, AND SECOND IN TERMS OF A REVISED DISTINCTIVE FEATURE FRAMEWORK INCORPORATING THE CHANGES PROPOSED BY CHOMSKY AND HALLE IN "THE SOUND…

Reports on a study of voiced onset time in initial voiced stops in various vocalic contexts. (Author/AM)

Recommends a "gapless" scheme for organizing phonemes into patterns in writing descriptions of specific languages. It is the distinctive function rather than the distinctive feature which provides symmetry. (MLA)

A study of the opposition in terms of duration between long and short vowels in the German phonological system. Tables, graphs and analyses accompany the conclusions discussed. Since physical time is not the only distinctive feature, loss of the temporal cue is compensated for by spectral cues. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

This article focuses on "gheada," a phonetic feature characteristic of certain areas of Galicia (Spain), unknown in Castilian and Portuguese, consists of the pronunciation of /g/ ([g], [y]) as [h]. This phonetic innovation, which is widespread in Western Galicia, has been traditionally stigmatized as a sign of rusticity and lack of…

Conclusion of an article begun in "International Review of Applied Linguistics," v 11 n 2 p 139-54 May 1973. (DD)

Adapted from the author's M.A. thesis, University of Queensland, 1971; slightly revised version of a paper presented at the 1973 Conference of the Linguistic Society of Australia. (DD)