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)

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)

This paper demonstrates the qualitative differences between the long and short vowels of Navaho from spectrum analysis of the language made by the Kay Electric Sona-Graph. (CK)

A forced-choice paired-comparison test containing 252 items was presented to eight subjects. Each item consisted of two geometric figures chosen systematically from a sample of four ellipses and four triangles. The subjects (six female and two male adults who spoke only English) were asked to decide which of the two figures went best with a…

Describes a study designed to determine whether children's conceptualization of the component sounds in words is influenced by knowledge of the words' spelling using real and made-up words. Shows the phonemic segmentation skill may be a consequence of as much as a prerequisite to learning real words. (Author/BK)

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)

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

Reports on an experiment which sought to compare child and adult speech in terms of (1) stop productions evidencing devoicing during consonant closure, and (2) consonant closure evidencing voicing in the case of devoiced stops. (Author/AM)

A description of the three contrasting Korean affricates as analyzed by means of a Sona-Graph sound spectograph (Model 6061A) is presented. Duration and intensity studies seem to indicate that these affricates are distinguishable by duration and intensity resulting from three different manners of articulation. The research represented in this…

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

Develops a method of analyzing and describing the acoustic properties of fricatives, which consists of making frequency spectra using the Fast Fourier Transform and then analyzing the spectra in terms of critical bands. The six fricatives of Chinese are analyzed by this method, and comparison with other languages is made. (SED)