THE LANGUAGES OF OKINAWAN MAY BE DIVIDED INTO THREE MUTUALLY UNINTELLIGIBLE REGIONAL DIALECTS, CORRESPONDING GEOGRAPHICALLY TO THE THREE GROUPS OF ISLANDS OF THE RYUUKYUU ARCHIPELAGO. AS REPRESENTATIVE MODEL OF THE REGIONAL DIALECTS, AGENA-GUCHI IS ANALYZED WITH RESPECT TO PHONEMIC SYSTEMS, OKINAWAN MORPHOPHONEMICS, AND OKINAWAN SYLLABLE STRUCTURE…

This article defines the syllable and discusses the performance and function of the vowels and phonemes "i", "u", "y" and "w" in different syllable and word construction. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

A non-English portion of the universal initial-cluster hierarchy is cognitively represented in English-speaking monolingual children and adolescents. Subjects in an experiment were asked to select frequency of non-English consonant clusters, and they were able to reconstruct the phonological hierarchy. (CK)

Research is reported which examined the effect of various factors on the frequency of phonological responses. Phonemic order and location of clusters within a syllable affected fusion. Initial stop-liquid clusters fused readily; final liquid-stop clusters rarely fused. Some subjects fused on most or all trials; others fused less frequently.…

This study surveys some of the results of linguistic contact between English and Japanee as spoken by monolingual and bilingual individuals of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii. More specifically the aim of the study is (1) to identify and classify those English influences which have been introduced and accepted into Hawaiian Japanese (HJ) and (2) to…

In polysyllabic segments, the composition of medial clusters is a reflection of morpheme structure constraints as they apply to initial and final groups of syllables. Also, medial clusters ideally overlap, i.e., have simultaneous membership in both the preceding and following syllable segments. (DB)

French linguists generally agree that the word in French has no phonetic or phonological status. This article examines this position and studies several vowel-consonant sequences, mute-"e" deletion and post-consonantal deletion and suggests that the role of French word-boundaries is more important than is generally acknowledged. (CHK)

Research supported by a grant from the Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health. (DD)

Research conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. (DD)

Research supported by the Joint Speech Research Unit. (DD)

Data obtained under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics from 1954 to 1967. (DD)