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ED401710.Pdf DOCUMENT RESUME ED 401 710 FL 023 265 AUTHOR Payne, David, Ed. TITLE Notes on Linguistics, 1995. INSTITUTION Summer Inst. of Linguistics, Dallas, Tex. REPORT NO ISSN-0736-0673 PUB DATE 95 NOTE 241p. AVAILABLE FROM Bookstore, ILC, 7500 West Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236. (one year subscription: SIL members, $15.96 in the U.S.; $19.16 foreign; non-SIL members, $19.95 in the U.S., $23.95 foreign; price includes postage and handling). PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Notes on Linguistics; n68-71 1995 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC10 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Book Reviews; Computer Software; Conferences; Deafness; Discourse Analysis; Distinctive Features (Language); Doctoral Dissertations; Grammar; Indexes; *Language Research; *Language Role; *Linguistic Theory; *Reference Materials; Research Methodology; *Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Uncommonly Taught Languages ABSTRACT Four issues of this journal contain articles, dissertation abstracts, reviews, remarks and rejoinders, conference reports, and announcements of publications and professional matters relating to linguistics and language research. The substantive articles contained in these issues include: "FIESTA--A Linguistics Text Tool" (E. Clay Johnston); "Distinctive Features" (Steven Marlett); "Combining Functional and Formal Approaches, to Language" (Robert A. Dooley); "Reference Grammars" (Thomas E. Payne); "Endonyms and Exonyms" (John W. M. Verhaar); and "Language and the Deaf" (Steve Parkhurst, Diane Parkhurst). 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Clay Johnston 7 FTESTAA LINGUISTICSTEXT TOOL Steven Mar lett 13 DISTINCTIVE FEATURES DISSERTATIONABSTRACTS DERIVATION: 21 CONSTRAINTRANKED OPTIMIZATION H.Andrew Black A SERIALAPPROACH TO Cheryl A. Black 22 QUIEGOLANI ZAPOTECSYNTAX LANGUAGE OF EASTERN THE BURU Charles E. Grimes 23 INDONESIA 25 THEORY OF STRESS Larry Hagberg AN AUTOSEGMENTAL REMARKS ANDREJOINDERS Rick Floyd 27 REMARKS ON 'LEXICALMATTERS' Karl Franklin 28 REJOINDER TO RICKFLOYD 'REFLECTIONS ONISTHMUS REJOINDER ON David Weber 29 ZIPOTEC INFLECTION'TO DAVID THOMAS REPORTS FOR APPLIEDLINGUISTICS IRISH ASSOCIATION Eddie Arthur 33 CONFERENCE CONFERENCE ON 7TH INTERNATIONAL Chuck Grimesand AUSTRONESIAN LINGUISTICS Steve Quakenbush 34 OF THE SOCIETA SLYTH COLLOQUIUM Monika Hang 37 EUROPAEA MAIKOP CAUCASOLOGICA CONGRESS OF THEINTL. 5TH INTERNATIONAL Ian Mowatt 38 SEMIOTIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION FOR (Continued on backcover) SUMMER INSTITUTEOF LINGUISTICS 7500 W. 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