Dschang is one of about ten Bamileke languages,1 spoken by over 300,000 people in Cameroon (Grimes 1988). The considerable interest in the language has focussed almost solely on tone, stemming from work by Hyman & Tadadjeu (1976). However, the language is also interesting for its syllable structure. The purpose of this chapter is to give a detailed description of the syllable in Dschang and sho...

This article provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of Sistani Persian spoken in Iranian Sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes. A representative selection of processes in the language is examined in reference to conditioning by surrounding segments and conditioning in reference to syllable structure. While assimilation and dissimilation a...

Behavioral variability is important for motor skill learning but continues to be present and actively regulated even in well-learned behaviors. In adult songbirds, two types of song variability can persist and are modulated by social context: variability in syllable structure and variability in syllable sequencing. The degree to which the control of both types of adult variability is shared or ...