Phonology and phonetic evidence: Papers in laboratory phonology IV Ed. by Bruce Connell and Amalia Arvaniti (review)

908 LANGUAGE, VOLUME 73, NUMBER 4 (1997) praise-oratory as commodity examines the economic value of language. Commodification of language is also at issue in Michael Silverstein's discussion of the U.S. ideology of monolingual Standard English. Silverstein's critique of the LSA's resolution against the Official English movement may cause some linguists to open—and others to roll—their eyes. Finally , Jane Hill's study of Mexicano and Spanish use in Mexico's Malinche region indicates that ideologies oflinguistic purity may co-exist with and even be formulated within 'impure' mixed codes. With its broad scope and useful introductory essays , the book fills a gap between textbooks and edited volumes for scholarly use. It will anchor courses in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis and will also serve as a useful reference for researchers. [Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Berkeley.] Phonology and phonetic evidence: Papers in laboratory phonology IV. Ed. by Bruce Connell and Amalia Arvaniti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii, 403. This book is a selection of papers from the Fourth Conference in Laboratory Phonology held in Oxford in August 1993. Following the pattern ofthe previous LabPhon books and conferences, this book contains both papers and commentaries on those papers. The commentaries provide a second, and sometimes contrary , perspective on the data and issues discussed in the papers. In this, the fourth book in the LabPhon series, some issues fromthe previous books are revisited , demonstrating that laboratory phonology is an emerging research paradigm which has revealed new issues for investigation. The book is organized into three parts. Part I, 'Features and perception' (7-92), contains chapters on the nature of features and their place in phonology. John Kingston and Randy Diehl (discussed by Terrance Nearey) examine the status of features in perception and conclude that features represent intermediate perceptual categories, not acoustic events. John Ohala and Manjari Ohala (discussed by James McQueen) investigate underspecification in lexical access in Hindi, following up work by William Marslen-Wilson and Aditi Lahiri ('Lexical processing and phonological representation '. Gesture, segment, prosody: Papers in laboratory phonology II. ed. by Gerard Docherty and D. Robert Ladd, 229-54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). Kenneth de Jong presents an articulatory study of redundant features and shows that speakers use a variety of articulatory strategies to implement a phonological contrast. Part II, 'Prosody' (95-201), contains chapters on suprasegmental structure. Esther Grabe and Paul Warren and Irene Vogel, H. Timothy Bunnell, and Steven Hoskins (both discussed by Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel) present acoustic and perceptual studies of stress shift in the English rhythm rule. Haruo Kuobonzo (discussed by Mary Beckman) presents perceptual evidence for the mora in Japanese . Kathleen Hubbard (discussed by Bernard Tranel) examines acoustic evidence for moraic timing in Bantu. Part III, 'Articulatory organization' (205-392), contains chapters concerned primarily with articulatory phonology, a theoretical framework which is closely tied to the laboratory phonology paradigm. Caroline Smith (discussed by Richard Ogden) tests models of gestural coordination for Italian and Japanese. Sun-Ah Jun (discussed by Gerard Docherty ) presents a gestural analysis of stop voicing in Korean that makes crucial use of prosodically conditioned gestural overlap. Elizabeth Zgisa (discussed by James Scobbie); Tara Holst and Francis Nolan (discussed by Catherine Browman); and Daniel Recasens, Jordi Fontdevila, and Maria Dolors Pallares consider differences between the phonological and articulatory representations ofpalatal and palatalized consonants. Sook-Hyang Lee (discussed by Francis Nolan) examines the relationship between jaw movement and consonant place of articulation in oral and guttural consonants. Didier Demolin (discussed by Louis Goldstein) presents an aerodynamic and acoustic study of implosive consonants in Lendu. [Stefan Frisch, Indiana University .] ...