In advanced language classes, a panchronic approach drawing on and integrating traditional synchronic (descriptive) and diachronic (historical) viewpoints is recommended. This approach helps provide both contemporary and historical linguistic facts, gives perspective to all aspects of the language, and assures the development of educated and…

Attempts to determine (1) the number and nature of perceptual dimensions of tone in Cantonese, Mandarin, and Taiwanese listeners; (2) to what extent individual differences in tone perception are influenced by a Chinese listener's language background, and (3) whether differences in perceptual saliency of dimensions across Chinese languages can be…

This article attempts to define statistically and conceptually the fluctuation in foreign place name stress in Russian, and to draw conclusions about its meaning for the Russian stress system as a whole. (CLK)

Recommends instruction at the undergraduate level in the history of language usage in order to place linguistic rules in the proper perspective of developmental change. (KS)

This article draws attention to a number of syntactic peculiarities of the so-called pronominal adverbs "en" and "y" in French, and maintains that these adverbs differ quite markedly in syntactic behavior. (Text is in French.) (Author/AM)

This article discusses the vestiges of the language of Cervantes in the popular language of Paraguay. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

The textbook is designed as a self-contained introduction to English syntax, providing an overview of key theoretical concepts and descriptive devices used in contemporary linguistic work rather than a historical perspective and using varieties of English from around the world rather than other languages for illustration. Chapter topics include:…

According to Cowan, an underground rule is one that affects underlying but not surface structure of the item responsible for a phonological change. (DD)