Investigates factors which condition deletion of plural /s/ in Peruvian Spanish. There is more /s/ deletion in plural forms than in monomorphemic forms. But 1,304 examples of plural /s/ from informal interviews with native speakers of Peruvian Spanish show plural marker tends to be retained when ambiguity would otherwise result. (Author/LMO)

Reports on a study designed to yield data that would suggest a reason for the reported morpheme sequence. A significant correlation was found between the common morpheme difficulty order of the learners and the frequency of occurrence of these morphemes in adult native-speaker speech. (Author/RM)

The see-saw pair is a technique for perceptually contrasting the two realizations of the third tone, viz. the low-level half third and the low dip full third. (DD)

Isotopy'' is constituted by a redundance of linguistic units, which may or may not be manifest, on the level of expression or the level of content. (DD)

Concerns the small proportion of phonemes in any given language, as compared to the number of morphemes, lexemes, and sememes. (DD)

Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)

Work supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the University of Michigan. (DD)

Lecture presented at the Language Testing Course at the Reinhardswaldschule, Kassel, West Germany, June 1972. (DD)

Part 1 of the article appeared in vl n2 of Linguistik und Didaktik.'' (WB)

Conclusion of a continued article; previous parts appeared in v38 n2 and v38 n3 of Revue des Langues Vivantes''. (WB)

Part 1 of a continued article. (WB)

Part 2 of a continued article; part 1 appeared in v38 n2. (WB)

Explores the role of negative marking in the mapping of the semantic and syntactic structures of Taiwanese modals on to their surface structure in terms of syntactic transformations. Particular attention is paid to the process of lexical fusion as it occurs in such negative forms as "be" and "m." (Author/PJM)