Subject: available for review

the book listed below is in the linguist office and now available for review . if you are interested in reviewing a book ( or leading a discussion of the book ) ; please contact our book review editor , andrew carnie , at : carnie @ linguistlist . org please include in your request message a brief statement about your research interests , background , affiliation and other information that might be valuable to help us select a suitable reviewer . language acquisition & prosody hung , feng sheng , 1996 . " prosody and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes in chinese languages " indiana university linguistics club . in this comparison study , hung investigates the influence of prosodic and phonological factors on the acquisition of frequently occurring grammatical morphemes in two morphosyntactically similar but prosodically different languages , namely taiwan mandarin chinese and taiwanese . through an analysis of the patterns of realization and omission of these morphemes in children 's speech , he concludes that rhythmic characteristics of languages can affect segmentation of input speech by providing different kinds of prosodic handles for the novice to grasp . metrical feet may offer mandarin children one kind of segmentation handle . in taiwanese , however , the syllable more likely functions as a segmentation unit .
