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This issue includes the following articles: "Vowel Epenthesis in Vimeu Picard: A Preliminary Investigation" (Julie Auger, Jeffrey Steele); "Lexical Borrowings from French in Written Quebec English: Perspectives on Motivation" (Pamela Grant-Russell and Celine Beaudet); "Variable Article Use in Korean Learners of English" (Hikyoung Lee); "The Loss of Auxiliary Selection in English" (Mimi Lipson); "Syntactic Change in Progress: Semi-Auxiliary Busy in South African English" (Rajend Mesthrie); "The Emergence of Creole Subject-Verb Agreement" (Miriam Meyerhoff); "Double Subject Marking in L2 Montreal French" (Naomi Nagy, Helene Blondeau); "Testing the Creole Continuum" (Peter Patrick); "Going Younger To Do Difference: The Role of Children in Language Change" (Julie Roberts); and"Situated Ethnicities: Constructing and Reconstructing Identity in the Sociolinguistic Interview" (Natalie Schilling-Estes). References are appended to each article. (KFT)

This issue includes the following articles: "Towards a Sociolinguistics of Style" (Alan Bell, Gary Johnson); "Engendering Identities: Pronoun Selection as an Indicator of Salient Intergroup Identities" (Miriam Meyerhoff); "A Majority Sound Change in a Minority Community" (Carmen Fought); "Addressing the Actuation Question for Local Linguistic Communities" (Lisa Ann Lane); "Typologizing the Sociolinguistic Speech Community" (Otto Santa Ana and Claudia Parodi); "Symbolic Identity and Language Change: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Insular /ay/ and /aw/" (Natalie Schilling-Estes, Walt Wolfram); "The Geolinguistics of Sound Change in Progress: /l/ Vocalization in Australia" (Barbara M. Horvath, Ronald J. Horvath); "Urban Sound Change beyond the Cities: The Spread of the Northern Cities Chain Shift" (Matthew J. Gordon); "Dialect Contact, Focusing and Phonological Rule Complexity: The Koineisation of Fenland English" (David Britain); "Sociolinguistic Coherence of Changes in Standard Dialect" (J. K. Chambers); "Adaptive Sociophonetic Strategies and Dialect Accommodation: /ay/ Monophthongization in Cherokee English" (Bridget L. Anderson); "Phonetic Realization of Final Engma in Taipei Mandarin" (Fu-Dong Chiou); "Frequency Effects in Variable Lexical Phonology" (James Meyers, Gregory R. Guy); "Variation in the Nativization of Foreign [a] in English" (Charles Boberg); "Rule Inversion in British English Dialect: A Sociolinguistic Investigation of [r]-sandhi in Newcastle upon Tyne" (Paul Foulkes); "Optimality and the Syntax of Lectal Variation" (Rakesh M. Bhatt); "The Truth about Codeswitching in Insular Acadian" (Ruth King, Terry Nadasdi); "Empirical Analysis of Anti-Immigrant Metaphor in Political Discourse" (Otto Santa Ana); "Is There an Authentic African American Speech Community: Carla Revisited" (Lanita Jacobs-Huey); "Yorkville Crossing: A Case Study of the Influence of Hip-Hop Culture on the Speech of a White Middle Class Adolescent in New York City" (Cecilia A. Cutler); and "Modeling Contact-Induced Language Change" (Naomi Nagy). Tables, figures, charts, graphs, and references are included in individual articles. (KFT)

This issue includes the following articles: "Assimilation to the Unmarked" (Eric Bakovic); "On the Non-Universality of Functional Projections and the Effects on Parametrized Variation: Evidence from Creoles" (Marlyse Baptista); "What Turkish Acquisition Tells Us about Underlying Word Order and Scrambling" (Natalie Batman-Ratyosyan, Karin Stromswold); "Constituting Context: Null Objects in English Recipes Revisited" (Emily Bender); "Decomposing French Questions" (Cedric Boeckx); "A Conspiracy Argument for Optimality Theory: Emakhuwa Dialectology" (Farida Cassimjee, Charles W, Kisseberth); "Light-Headed Relatives" (Barbara Citko); "Semantically Charged Syntax and the Construction of Meaning" (Kristin M. Eide and Tor A. Afarli); "'Punctuality' and Verb Semantics" (Stefan Engelberg);"Acquisition of Default Inflectional Suffixes: Japanese Adjectives" (Miho Fujiwara); "Possessor Extraction in Child English: A Minimalist Account" (Elena Gavruseva, Rosalind Thornton); "The Long Distance Anaphora Conspiracy: The Case of Korean" (Kook-Hee Gill); "Topic, Focus, and the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface" (Jeanette K. Gundel); "Two Ways of Describing Distributive Readings" (J.R. Hayashishita); "The Reduplicative Nature of the Bulgarian Definite Article" (Ben Hermans); "The Origin of the Pre-Ossetic Oblique Case Suffix and Its Implications" (Ronald Kim); "A Hierarchy of Phonetic Constraints on Palatality in Russian" (Alexei Kochetov); "Japanese Floating Classifiers" (William McClure); "A-Scrambling Exists!" (Martha McGinnis); "Perception and Production of American English Tense and Lax Vowels by Japanese Speakers" (Michelle Minnick Fox, Kazuaki Maeda); "The Syntax of Adjunct Wh-NPs" (Masao Ochi, Tien-Hsin Hsin); "Reflexives and Constraints on the Borrowing of Discourse Function: Creoles and Tahitian French" (Kieran Snyder); and "Two Types of Verb Particle Constructions" (Mikael Vinka). References are appended to each article. (KFT)

This issue includes the following articles: "A Multi-Modal Analysis of Anaphora and Ellipsis" (Gerhard Jager); "Amount Quantification, Referentiality, and Long Wh-Movement" (Anthony Kroch); "Valency in Kannada: Evidence for Interpretive Morphology" (Jeffrey Lidz); "Vietnamese 'Morphology' and the Definition of Word" (Rolf Noyer); "The Conflict between Future Tense and Modality: The Case of 'Will' in English" (Anoop Sarkar); and "Predemonstrative Modifiers in Mandarin" (Alexander Williams). References are appended to each article. (KFT)

This issue includes the following articles: "Detaching Discourse Functions from Functional Projections" (Dora Alexopoulou); "Interface Conditions on Child Language: A Crosslinguistic Look at Genitives" (Sharon Armon-Lotem, Stephen Crain); "Formal Features and Movement at PF" (Ralph C. Blight); "Semantic Features of Determiners: Toward an Account for Complements of D" (Jocelyn Cohan); "Discourse Deixis and Anaphora Resolution in German" (Miriam Eckert); "The Syntax of IPP-Constructions and the Structure of the Lower Middlefield in Westgermanic" (Roland Hinterholzl); "Pre-Boundary Lengthening: Universal or Language Specific? The Case of Hungarian" (Beth Ann Hockey, Zsuzsanna Fagyal); "Some Reconstruction Riddles" (Howard Lasnik); "The Life and Death of Derivational Morphology: Reduplication in Oroqen (Fengxiang Li, Lindsay J. Whaley); "Chains and Phono-Logical Form" (Jeffrey Lidz, William J. Idsardi); "Deixis and Interactional Construction of Context" (Simona Pekarek); "Complex Small Clauses" (Joan Rafel); "Sloppy Definites (Ann M. Reed); "An Event Syntactic Account of Delimitation in Mandarin" (Chuanchih Wang); and "Restructuring Control" (Susi Wurmbrand). References are appended to each article. (KFT)

This issue contains the following articles: "Was Mir Wisse: A Review of the Literature on the Languages of the Pennsylvania Germans" (David Bowie); "Tigrinya Root Consonants and the OCP" (Eugene Buckley); "Duration of Onset Consonants in Gay Male Stereotyped Speech" (Sean Crist); "PRO, the EPP and Nominative Case: Evidence from Irish Infinitivals" (Heidi Harley, Andrew Carnie); "Palatalization and Umlaut in Korean" (Soonhyun Hong); "Exceptional Case Marking in the Xtag System" (Seth Kulick); "Functional and Pair-List Embedded Questions" (Yael Sharvit); and "The Perfect, Contingency, and Temporal Subordination" (Beverly Spejewski). (KFT)

This issue contains the following articles: "The Pragmatics of Wh-Question Intonation in English" (Christine Bartels); "The Nature of Object Agreement in Hungarian" (Huba Bartos); "Voah Mei Daett Sei Deitsh: Developments in the Vowel System of Pennsylvania German" (David Bowie); "Event Time Properties" (Gerhard Brugger); "Polarity in Spanish, French, and English" (Dee Cain, Renee J. O'Brien); "Chanting Intonation in French" (Zsuzsanna Fagyal); "Sui Generis Genericity" (Hana Filip, Greg Carlson); "South Slavic Clitic Placement Is Still Syntactic" (Steven Franks); "Permission Sentences in Dynamic Semantics" (Javier Gutierrez-Rexach); "Do I Sound 'Asian' to You? Linguistic Markers of Asian American Identity" (David B. Hanna); "Subcategorization Semantics and the Naturalness of Verb-Frame Pairings" (Edward Kako); "Extraction, Gradedness, and Optimality" (Frank Keller); "A Non-Scalar Account of Apparent Gradience: Evidence from Yo and Ne" (Yuriko Suzuki Kose); "No Escape from Syntax: Don't Try Morphological Analysis in the Privacy of Your Own Lexicon" (Alec Marantz); "What Does the Copula Do?" (Kunio Nishiyama); "Disyllabic Requirement in Swahili Morphology" (Jae-Ick Park); "Aspectual Shifting in the Perfect and Progressive" (Laura Wagner); "A Model-Theoretic Approach to A-Not-A Questions" (Jianxin Wu); and "Against Overt Particle Incorporation" (Jochen Zeller). Diagrams, tables, and references appear throughout the articles. (KFT)

This paper describes and gives the results of a psycholinguistic experiment investigating the impact of certain surface syntactic structures on the perception and memory of language. The basic assumption is that the content of an utterance must be its most salient aspect in memory. The for of an utterance, its surface grammar and phonology, must have some salience for memory, especially short-term, but nothing like that of content. Amy meaningful grammatical distinctions of markers should, therefore, be more salient in memory than meaningless ones. This experiment focuses exclusively on different varieties of one surface distinction: sentences whose underlying predicate surfaces as a verb versus those where the same predicate surfaces as some nominalization of that verb. The experiment consisted of administering to the subjects pairs of synonymous sentences, differing in the above manner and referred to as Critical Pairs (CP's), and five other types of sentences, included for comparing recognition performance on CP's to performance on other kinds of linguistic memory. The conclusion is that the surface syntactic differences manipulated here have little, if any, salience for memory, and that it is unlikely for such surface differences to have any semantic consequence. Such conclusions, however, do not necessarily generalize to other surface features. (Author/TL)

The articles included in these proceedings are presented in order to give some insight into the meaning and scope of bilingualism and bilingual education. The volume is divided into sections respresenting the following five areas of concern in bilingual education: philosophy, legal aspects, language and linguistics, culture, and techniques and teaching strategies. The papers dealing with these areas are: (1) "A New Philosophy of Education," by A. Castaneda, P.L. Howard and M. Ramirez; (2) "Lau v Nichols: Implications for Bilingual-Bicultural Education," by E.H. Steinman; (3) "Language and Linguistics in Bilingual Education," by R. C. Troike; (4) "Spanish Usage in the United States," by L. B. Kiddle; (5) "Spanish Speakers' Linguistic Interference on Their English" by D. A. Thomas; (6) "Arguments in Support of Bilingual-Bicultural Education," by S. Betances; (7) "The Cultural, Social, and Educational Backgrounds of the Chaldean and Arabic Students in Michigan Schools," by G. H. Sesi; (8) "The Community: A Neglected Resource for Bilingual Program Effectiveness," by R. Martinez; (9) "Appropriate Models for Bilingual-Bicultural Instruction in Michigan," by W. Katra and W. Cline; (10) "The Implementation of the Bilingual Program for the Vietnamese Children at Palmer Elementary School, Grand Rapids, Michigan," by T. C. Xuan; and (11) "Strategies for the Implementation of Bilingual Programs," by J. Thomas. The appendices give the texts of the U. S. Supreme Court Decision, Lau v. Nichols, and the Michigan Bilingual Education Act. (AMH)

This research is the result of 10 weeks of field work in Taiwan during the summer of 1972. It consists of a description, analysis, and comparison of the morphologically marked causative verbs in Rukai, Bunun, Tsou, Anis, Seedig, and Saisiyat. The theoretical framework employed is a type of case grammar referred to as "lexicase," a generative but nontransformational approach to syntax. The different approaches taken by several linguists to the problem of causation constructions are described, and then each of the six languages is considered independently. It is concluded that there is one typological characteristic common to all the languages studied, the clear and fundamental division of verbs into two classes, active and passive. (PP)

It is important that we reflect on the conceptual framework from which our study of language has emerged, since the problems, methods, and aims of what has been called modern linguistics are rapidly being replaced by the concerns of another framework or paradigm. Such new paradigms, to be viable, must not be distorted by starting points that unduly restrict analysis and research. Therefore, since the transformational (and neo-transformational) model is able to probe more deeply into the reality of language, often compensating for the inadequacies of the structural approach to account for the data, it is to be preferred. These richer theories illustrate advance through their demonstration, though incomplete and provisional, of the laws of language on a global scale. However, the charge of onesidedness as applied to the now-dominant perspective(s) is not easily answered. To the extent that it cannot be answered, the current "rationalist" efforts must be viewed as too limiting to account satisfactorily for the phenomena (language) they are attempting to explain. In the future, the mode of abstraction and directive for research must be critically appraised for the way they inform theory, fact, research, and application. The ultimate criterion for evaluation cannot incontrovertibly be an appeal to the concept "science"; the critic must be aware of his pre-scientific grounds for judgment. (Author/DB)