THE BINARY PRINCIPLE OF DISTINCTIVE FEATURE ANALYSIS IS CONSIDERED UNECONOMICAL FOR FORMULATION OF THE RULES FOR VOWEL COMBINATION IN SPANISH. CLASSIFICATORY FEATURES IN A TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR ARE ALL BINARY. HOWEVER, STRICT ADHERENCE TO DISTINCTIVE FEATURE ANALYSIS IS CONSIDERED UNECONOMICAL FOR FORMULATION OF RULES FOR VOWEL COMBINATION…

AN APOPHONE MAY BE DEFINED GENERALLY AS A POLYSYLLABIC VOWEL SEQUENCE SUCH THAT EACH CONTAINED VOWEL IS LOWER OR MORE RETRACTED THAN THE VOWEL WHICH PRECEDES IT --"SING, SANG, SUNG," AND "CLINK, CLANK, CLUNK" ARE EXAMPLES IN ENGLISH. FOR NEARLY EVERY CASE OF GRAMMATICAL APOPHONY IN ENGLISH THERE IS A NON-GRAMMATICAL (YET…

FIRST AND FOURTH GRADERS AND ADULTS WERE PRESENTED ORALLY WITH A LIST OF PAIRS OF SYNTHETIC PLURAL NOUNS DIFFERING ONLY IN THEIR FINAL CONSONANTS (E.G., NARP/NARV) AND ASKED TO JUDGE WHICH MEMBER OF THE PAIR WOULD BE A BETTER PLURAL. FIFTH GRADERS MADE SIMILAR JUDGMENTS CONCERNING PAIRS OF PAST-TENSE VERBS. MOST OF THE SOUNDS PREFERRED BY THE…

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

Research supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)

Assimilation refers to a segment influencing one or more neighboring segments across a word boundary. (DD)

Characteristics of trade and industrial education are explained under these headings: (1) Curriculum, (2) Industry Relationships, (3) The Work Force and People Served, (4) Types of Schools, (5) Instructional Staff, (6) Instructional Facilitites, (7) Staff Development, and (8) Administration. (GR)

Clarifies the analysis of the phoneme /s/ in the book "Spanish Phonology" by James W. Harris. (NCR)

Presents a case study of the language of a 23-year-old white female who makes consistent use of the many distinctive features associated with African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Argues that the interaction of ideologies of race, class, localness, and language allow her to be considered an ingroup member despite her biographical race.…

Discusses phonic shifting or sound shifts through an examination of Grimm's Law, or the Germanic Consonant Shift. The discussion includes comments on why the phonic shift developed and its pattern. (10 references) (GLR)

Reviews and comments on the major points made in Albert Gessman's paper, "Grimm's Law: Fact or Myth?" Through the evaluation of the paper's 13 points, several ideas are pointed out that are believed to be crucial to Gessman's arguments. (29 references) (GLR)

Argues for the existence of a pro-prepositional phrase category whose licensing condition requires it to be theta marked by a head. This licensing condition explains the difference found regarding silent prepositional phrases between Class A and Class B prepositional verbs. (CB)

Examines 11 types of uses of the English word "with," demonstrating that speakers who use the word have an implicit knowledge of its multiple meanings and uses, which far exceeds their explicit knowledge of the word. (CB)

Reviews a wide-ranging formal analysis of Chinese syntax that explores the role of case theory in the phrase structure of Chinese. (15 references) (CB)

Demonstrates how the important distinction between the locative and nonlocative implication of a noun is essential for the presence of the Chinese locative particle "li," identifying groups of nouns that can not take the particle, nouns that optionally use the particle, and nouns that must use the particle. (CB)