THE RELATION IS EXAMINED BETWEEN SIMPLE VOWEL SOUNDS IN ENGLISH AND VOWELS ASSOCIATED WITH GLIDES, OR SEMIVOWELS, SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS "COMPOUND PHONEMES." THESE COMPLEX VOWEL NUCLEI PARTICIPATE IN MORPHOPHONEMIC ALTERNATIONS WITH SIMPLE VOWEL NUCLEI, AS FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE ALTERNATION OF VOWEL NUCLEI IN THE PAIR "SLEEP/SLEPT." THE SYSTEM…

Paper read at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, December 29, 1971, St. Louis, Missouri. (VM)

AN APOPHONE MAY BE DEFINED GENERALLY AS A POLYSYLLABIC VOWEL SEQUENCE SUCH THAT EACH CONTAINED VOWEL IS LOWER OR MORE RETRACTED THAN THE VOWEL WHICH PRECEDES IT --"SING, SANG, SUNG," AND "CLINK, CLANK, CLUNK" ARE EXAMPLES IN ENGLISH. FOR NEARLY EVERY CASE OF GRAMMATICAL APOPHONY IN ENGLISH THERE IS A NON-GRAMMATICAL (YET…

SETS OF ORTHOGRAPHIC PATTERNS BASED ON AN ANALYSIS OF THE SPELLINGS AND PRONUNCIATIONS OF THE 20,000 MOST COMMON ENGLISH WORDS ARE ORGANIZED AND PRESENTED. TWO BASIC SETS OF PATTERNS ARE DISCUSSED. THE FIRST PERTAINS TO THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE ORTHOGRAPHY--THE CLASSES OF LETTERS (GRAPHEMES) AND THE ALLOWABLE SEQUENCES OF THESE LETTERS…

Revised version of an inaugural lecture at Ohio State University, November 29, 1971; research supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. (DD)

This study progressively examines fundamental principles of articulatory phonetics, French and English phonemics, and theoretical phonetics. The Parisian accent is examined at great length. Vowel charts and phonetically transcribed sample lexical items are included. For a companion document see FL 001 799. [Hard copy not available due to marginal…

The two papers in this booklet comprise part of the research in the Hungarian-English Contrastive Linguistics Project, which is concerned with investigating the differences and similarities between the two languages with implications for second language acquisition. The first paper compares the obstruent clusters in English and Hungarian,…

Discusses the types of arguments available for settling questions of phonological constituency. On the basis of these arguments the most frequently assumed syllable structure is selected in which the relationship between "Peak" and "Coda" is closer than that between "Peak" and "Onset." (Author/LMO)

This paper proposes a set of underlying vowels, alternate to those of Chomsky and Halle, to account for vowel alternations. This phonetic representational system, which is to a degree an extension of Chomsky's and Halle's basic framework, is demonstrated in the Laxing Rule and the Vowel Alternation Rule for all vowel variables. An appendix…

THIS PAPER PRESENTS FIRST A SUMMARY OF RESEARCH INVESTIGATING THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE KINDERGARTEN CHILD HAS ABSTRACTED IMPLICIT REGULARITIES IN THE FORMATION OF PLURALS IN ENGLISH. PRODUCTION AND RECOGNITION TASKS WERE USED. THE CHILDREN MADE MORE ERRORS WITH SYLLABLES REQUIRING THE ADDITION OR DELETION OF THE /IZ/ ALLOMORPH THAN WITH SYLLABLES…