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LANG ACQUISITION The Malfrfpirannssknir (Linguist Research) series Volume III: Sigridur Sigurjonsdottir: Spurnarsetningar i mali tveggja islenskra barna (The Interrogative in the Speech of Two Icelandic Children). Prize: USD 16. This is an account of research on the development of interogative sentences in the speech of two Icelandic children from the age of two to three and a half. A number of conclusions are drawn, among them the observation that the first questions of Icelandic children begin with "viltu" 'do you want to' and usually function as requests. PHONOLOGY & PHONETICS Chitoran, Ioana & Ayako Tsuchida (eds.), WORKING PAPERS OF THE CORNELL PHONETICS LABORATORY NO. 9 1994 283pp. paperbound cost: $11.00 (prepaid) Papers by J. ALcantara, I. Chitoran, A. C. Cohn & K. Lockwood, K. de Jong, J.-I. Han, H. Kim & A. Jongman, R. Letterman, A. Tsuchida, D. Zec on a variety of topics in phonetics, phonology, and interface issues. For further information on the contents of this and other DMLL Publications and how to order, please contact DMLL Publications at booksMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueplab.dmll.cornell.edu. The Malfrfpirannssknir (Linguist Research) series Volume IV: Petur Helgason: On Coarticulation and Connected Speech Processes in Icelandic. USD 11. Written in English. The author examines the pronunciation of connected speech, including the assimilations and elisions currently taking place in Icelandic. To order the books from Malfrfpirannssknir (Linguist Research) series, please write to: Institute of Linguistics University of Iceland Arnagardur v/Sudurgotu 101 Reykjavik Iceland e-mail: malvis
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