A survey of research in the history of the "h-aspire" in French. It is suggested that a synchronic rule of h-deletion never existed and a synchronic rule of insertion existed only in Old French. The evolution of liaison is compared to that of "h-aspire." Questions are raised for further study. (AMH)

Discusses binary opposition as the concept is used in the structural phonology of Jakobson and in the structuralism of Greimas and Levi-Strauss. (CK)

Article based on the author's report, Sprachnorm und Sprechnorm,'' presented at the Sixth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, September 1967, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Present version read at the Fourth Czechoslovakia. Present version read at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, October 9-11, 1970, Prague,…

In Eskimo there are two different underlying representations on the phonological level for the possessive and transitive constructions, but confusion has resulted from the fact that these have been treated identically. (CK)

Shortened version of this paper was presented in New York, N.Y., March 14, 1970, at the Fifteenth Annual National Conference on Linguistics sponsored by The International Linguistic Association. (RS)

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)

Original Russian version appeared in "Voprosy jazykoznanija" 3, 1971. (DD)

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

Research supported by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (DD)