Title	Author	page
Tribute
A Tribute to the Memory of the Late Profesor Ichiro OSHIMA	Mariko Kuno・Makoto Kuno	1
Research Articles
On the Geminate Consonants of the Antoh Dialect in Fukui Prefecture	Tetsuo NITTA	6
Phonetic Shape and Linguistic Function of Penultimate Non-Lexical Prominence	Kikuo MAEKAWA	16
Feature Articles: The English Language Education from a Phonetic Perspective
Preface	Isao UEDA	29
On Teaching English Pronunciation in Japanese Secondary Education:How It Is and How It Should Be	Makoto TESHIMA	31
English as a Lingua Franca and the Teaching of Pronunciation	Atsuko SHIMIZU	44
A Cluster Analysis of the Vowel System of General American and Its Application to Phonetic Education	Takeshi YAMAMOTO	63
Realization of English Nuclear Accent by Non-Native Speakers (NNS): Relation of Realized Tonicity and Intelligibility between NNS	Masako KAMURA	73
Misplacement of Nuclear Stress by Japanese Learners of English	Hiroko SAITO and Isao UEDA	87

Title	Author	page
Research Articles
Acquisition of vowel devoicing in Japanese as a second language by Taiwanese learners of Japanese	Rei YASUDA and Ryoko HAYASHI	1
Research Notes
Perception of the Korean Intervocalic Tense Fricative: A Comparison between Native Speakers and Japanese Learners	Heesun HAN	11
High Vowel Devoicing in the Keihanshin Area of Japan	Hi-Gyung BYUN	23
Feature Articles: Laryngeal Features among Eastern Asian Languages
Preface	Ray IWATA	38
Laryngeal Features among Eastern Asian Languages	Mitsuaki ENDO	40
Variety of the Lanryngeal Features in the Tibetan Dialects	Hiroyuki SUZUKI	52
F0 and Voice Quality in the Tonal System of North-Central Vietnamese —Fieldwork Data Analysis of Lam River Speech—	Koichi HONDA	61
Thai Tones Revisited	Donna ERICKSON	74
Some Phonatory Characteristics of Tibetan Buddhist Chants	Ikuyo YOSHINAGA　and Jiangping KONG	83

Title	Author	page
Tribute
A Tribute to the Memory of the Late Professor Shin KAWAKAMI	Zendo UWANO	1
Research Notes
Effects of L2 Experience on Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Native Japanese Speakers	Katsura AOYAMA and James E. FLEGE	5
Recognizing Emotion from Japanese Utterances: Individual Differences among Russian Learners of Japanese Language	Ritsuko NAKABAYASHI	14
Feature Articles: Phonetics and Phonology of Eastern Japanese Dialects
Preface	Makio OONO	26
A Hypothesis on the Origin of the Central Vowel in the Dialects of East Japan: in Comparison with the Vowel Shift in the Ryukyuan Dialects	Makio OONO	27
Remaining Traces of Japanese Labial /h/ Sounds in Tohoku Dialects and Their Historical Development Path: An Analysis of Mouth Shape	Junichi OHASHI	37
The Current Status of Accent Variation in the Matsuzaki-Cho Dialect, Shizuoka Prefecture	Yukio KIGAWA	48
Modal Meaning of the “Sentence-Final-Vowel-Lengthening Tone” in the Rikuchū-Miyako Dialect	Nobuhiro TANAKA	62
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