Editors’ Introduction

Articles in the same Issue

1. Special Section
2. Contents, Vol. 51, No.1-3, 1991
3. Paper
4. Editors’ Introduction
5. ‘Speaker’ and ‘Speech’ Characteristics: A Deductive Approach
6. From EMG to Formant Patterns of Vowels: The Implication of Vowel Spaces
7. Individual Variation in Measures of Voice
8. Glottal Stops and Glottalization in German
9. Tongue Body Kinematics in Velar Stop Production: Influences of Consonant Voicing and Vowel Context
10. What’s in a Schwa?
11. Durational Correlates of Quantity in Swedish, Finnish and Estonian: Cross-Language Evidence for a Theory of Adaptive Dispersion
12. Evidence for the Adaptive Nature of Speech on the Phrase Level and Below
13. Some Distributional Facts about Fricatives and a Perceptual Explanation
14. Listeners’ Normalization of Vowel Quality Is Influenced by ‘Restored’ Consonantal Context
15. The Phonological Reality of Locus Equations across Manner Class Distinctions: Preliminary Observations
16. Musical Significance of Musicians’ Syllable Choice in Improvised Nonsense Text Singing: A Preliminary Study
17. Cross-Language Differences in Phonological Acquisition: Swedish and American /t/
18. The Nature and Origins of Ambient Language Influence on Infant Vocal Production and Early Words
19. Conventional, Biological and Environmental Factors in Speech Communication: A Modulation Theory
20. Prolegomena to a Theory of the Sound Pattern of the First Spoken Language