Kurtop is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 15,000 people in Northeastern Bhutan. This dissertation is the first descriptive grammar of the language, based on extensive fieldwork and community-driven language documentation in Bhutan. When possible, analyses are presented in typological and historical/comparative perspectives and…

This dissertation is a grammar of Rena (ISO bez), a Bantu language spoken in southwestern Tanzania by approximately 600,000 people. Bena is largely undocumented, and though aspects of Bena grammar have been described, there is no usable, detailed treatment of the Bena language. Therefore the goal of this dissertation is provide the first detailed…

Describes and classifies French consonants from an articulatory-phonological perspective. (JB)

A combination matrix could be very useful to illustrate the synchronic and diachronic representation of German diphthongs. Examples are provided. It is further suggested that such a matrix could be utilized for phonological research in the areas of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and dialectology. (Text is in German.) (DS)

Advocates "pure intra-linguistic" criteria (rather than those of traditional grammar) to account for French usage in country names. The relationships between the phonology and the gender, and the use of the article and appropriate prepositional phrase, are suggested. A list of exceptions would be necessary. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Includes discussion of the Moravian spelling system, recent sound changes, present orthography, autonomous phonemic inventory, clusters, gross phonetic allophony, and canonical form. (MSE)

The article discusses the tonal system of Lamnsok, a language spoken in the North-West province of the United Republic of Cameroun with specific reference to verbs. The tone pattern for a given clause is dependent on various factors handled at length. Charts and extensive examples accompany the text. (CLK)

An examination is made of the f o, or "pitch," contours which underly the five tones of Thai in an effort to describe their shapes and compare these descriptions with those of earlier phonetic accounts of the tones. (Author/RM)

In order to gain a better view of the phonological properties of Taiwanese, examines how the rules of three dialects in the Taiwanese secret language operate. Describes the three main types of rules which are required to derive the secret language from the source language. Discusses implications of the study. (SED)

THIS SKETCH CONSTITUTES A PRELIMINARY STUDY FOR A DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR OF PANJABI, THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY NEARLY 30 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE INDIAN AND PAKISTANI PROVINCES OF PUNJAB, AND BY SIKHS AND PANJABI MUSLIMS IN EAST AFRICA. AN INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGE, PANJABI (ALONG WITH HINDI) IS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF EAST PUNJAB, AND THE PRESENT STUDY IS…

It is argued that the direct output of a contrastive analysis should be a transfer grammar, a single set of rules which would serve at one and the same time for transferring from language A to language B and from B to A. It is shown that such rules can be formulated either as equations or in the form of matrices. The elements involved can either…

Rejoinder to arguments against abstract phonology in Robert T. Harms' How Abstract Is Nupe?'', FL 504 726. (RS)