YPL1 – Issue 8 (September 1980)
Editors: S.J. Harlow, C.J. Cullen and A.R. Warner
Hence
7–21
Johan van der Auwera
The Meanings of the Modals in Modern British and American English
23–34
Jennifer Coates and Geoffrey Leech
The Characterisation of Glottal Stricture in Dependency Phonology
35–47
Colin J. Ewen
A Note on Phonological Variables
55–60
Richard Hudson
Modelling Intonational Variability in Children
61–95
John Local
Establishing Variant Intonational Systems
97–144
John Pellowe
On the Role of Universal Grammar in Acquisition, Competence and Performance of First and Second Language
145–157
David A. Reibel
A Century of Sound Changes without Exceptions
159–166
Charles V.J. Russ
Some Issues in the Theory of Word Order
167–179
Nigel Vincent
Notes and Discussion
The Li and Thompson Findings on Word Order and Word Order Change in Mandarin: An Alternative Analysis
183–192
David C. Bennet
Ethnoichtyology and Noun Morphology in English
193–196
Richard Coates
The Performative Interpretation of Descriptive Utterances
197–198
Gerald Gazdar
There is There
199–200
Gerald Gazdar and Geoffrey K. Pullum
Motivations for the Choice of French and English as Foreign Languages
201–206
Patrick Schmoll
Some Physical Properties of Three English Tones
207–218
John Local and Mark Pearson
Reviews
Theodora Bynon. Historical Linguistics. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. 1977. x + 301 pp.
221–224
Charles V.J. Russ
Jurgen M. Meisel (ed.). Langues en Contact – Pidgins – Creoles – Languages in Contact. Tübingen: TBL Verlag Gunter Narr. 1977.
225–226
R.B. Le Page
M.M. Rodgon. Single Word Usage, Cognitive Development and the Beginnings of Combinatorial Speech: A Study of Ten English-speaking Children. Cambridge: CUP. 1976. 125 + Appendices 30 pp. £6.50.
227–230
Anne E. Mills