Research reports included in this volume of working papers in linguistics are: "Perception of Consonant Clusters and Variable Gap Time" (Mike Cahill); "Near-Merger in Russian Palatalization" (Erin Diehm, Keith Johnson); "Breadth of Focus, Modality, and Prominence Perception in Neapolitan Italian" (Mariapaola D'Imperio); "The Northern Cities Shift in the Heartland? A Study of Radio Speech in Columbus, Ohio" (Steve Hartman Keiser, Frans Hinskens, Bettina Migge, Elizabeth A. Strand); "Syntactically-Governed Accentuation in Balinese" (Rebecca Herman); "The Auditory-Perceptual Basis for Speech Segmentation" (Keith Johnson); Production and Perception of Individual Speaking Styles" (Keith Johnson, Mary E. Beckman); "Japanese ToBI Labelling Guidelines" (Jennifer J. Venditti); and "A Cross-Linguistic Study of Diphthongs in Spoken Word Processing in Japanese and English" (Kiyoko Yoneyama). Individual papers contain references. (MSE)