The authors investigated the lexical entry for morphologically complex words in English, Six experiments, using a cross-modal repetition priming task, asked whether the lexical entry for derivationally suffixed and prefixed words is morphologically structured and how this relates to the semantic and phonological transparency of the surface relationship between stem and affix. There was clear evidence for morphological decomposition of semantically transparent forms. This was independent of phonological transparency, suggesting that morphemic representations are phonologically abstract. Semantically opaque forms, in contrast, behave like monomorphemic words. Overall, suffixed and prefixed derived words and their stems prime each other through shared morphemes in the lexical entry, except for pairs of suffixed forms, which show a cohort-based interference effect.

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RACHELLEWAKSLER'------------------------ Pitch range and women's sexual orientationAbstract. The interaction between intonational patterns and speaker gender has long been noted in the language and gender literature (e.g., Brend 1972, Lakoff 1975, McConnell-Ginet 1983, Ohara 1992. It has also been hypothesized (Moonwomon 1985, Queen 1997) that intonation may be a locus of difference between lesbian and heterosexual women's speech. This paper investigates the question of whether there is an interaction between pitch range and sexual orientation in women. An experiment was carried out in San Francisco in which 24 lesbians and straight women were individually audiotaped recounting the plot of the movie The Wizard of Oz. Data are thus controlled as much as possible for content and communicative situation, while remaining as natural speech. Acoustic analysis of the recordings suggests that pitch range is not a distinguishing factor for female sexual orientation.

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Abstract. This paper presents and analyzes new data from the officially endangered language Chatino. We investigate the behavior of a Chatino preposition, jj?j, which is sometimes found preceding direct objects. Its patterning, with respect to when it will and when it will not precede a direct object, has so far eluded characterization. Using both natural discourse and elicited data, we examine and reject hypotheses ofjj?j's occurrence based on various properties of the direct object: animacy, specificity, thematic role, 3 ~ 2 advancement (i.e., the marked direct objects are underlyingly indirect objects). We propose an analysis in whichjj?j marks the discourse focus. We argue that the Chatino data support Lambrecht's ( 1994) position that focus is nonidentical with "new information", and that the Chatino data necessitate an expansion of the definition of focus beyond the propositional level. Our analysis incorporates a disambiguating function of jj?j to separate the subject and object when they are potentially parsed as a single NP.