Abbreviated version of this paper was read under the title Nuclear Accent and Intonation Rules of English'' at the 1970 summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, in Columbus, Ohio, and an interim version appeared in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics'' (1971). (VM)

Work sponsored by the National Science Foundation under a series of grants for research on Oregon Indian languages. (VM)

This is a contrastive synchronic study. Scales and rules of conversion are set up whereby it is shown which non-cognate consonants appear in initial position in one dialect and what they become when converted to the other. A matrix of contrast to show consonantal feature differences is also used. (SC)

This article presents a description of intonation in English in terms of the relationship between the syntactic surface structure of a given sentence and certain distinctive intonative features.

This article discusses sonorants and affricates in English, and contrasts them with the sonorants and affricates in French and German. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, St. Louis, Missouri, December 1971. (DD)

Research supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. (DD)

Discusses the role of the phoneme in generative phonology. (VM)