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

Presents arguments to disprove the thesis that "the phoneme is a bundle of distinctive features." (RM)

A phonetic analysis of Latin long vowels is followed by a phonological analysis which asks whether these vowels are phonemes and, if so, what their distinctive features are. (AM)

Revised version of a paper read at the Canadian Linguistic Association, Montreal, Quebec, May 1972. (RS)

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…

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 previously prosed rule of absolute neutralization (merging underlying low vowels) is eliminated in an alternative analysis including instead a rule that "breaks" the feature matrix of certain low vowels and redistributes the features of each vowel as a sequence of vowel-like transition plus (a). (Author/RM)

Reasons are given for the idea that Hueyapan (Morelos) Nahuatl has an underlying velar nasal with lip rounding phoneme which never has the surface reflex of a rounded velar nasal allophone, but occurs phonetically as a velar nasal allophone or a labial dental voiced allophone or disappears. (SCC)

The article handles nasalization found in Jaffna Tamil. Conclusions are based on the results of a kymographic study of nominal forms occurring in the colloquial speech of the author. Not being a distinctive vocalic element, nasalization is handled on a prosodic level, its occurrence at word and syllabic level is discussed. (CLK)

This article discusses the problem of identical sounds which represent different phonemes. A distinction between basic distinctive features is rejected in favor of a theory of phonological fluctuation. (Text is in French.) (AM)

In this paper several instances in which a mirror-image (or "directionless") rule was added intact to an innovating grammar are presented, and it is argued that the form of such rules can be constrained in a special way. The author has found it necessary to distinguish rules added to an innovating grammar (diachronic rules) from rules already…

This article discusses the concept of the archiphoneme and specifically defends the notion of neutralization. (Text is in French.) (CLK)