... acquisition 52 3Russian 92 Sankoff, D. 53Sapir, E. 117Sato, C. 123 Saussure, Ferdinand de 5Schultze, W. 117schwa absorption 22 –7fricatives 24 –5laterals 22 –3liquids (syllabic ‘r’ and ‘w’) 23 –4nasals ... J. C. 22 , 27 , 33, 36, 38,40Accents of English 19 20 , 109Welsh 1 12 13Welsh, A. 91Whalen, D. H. 10, 75Whorf, B. L. 92 Wichmann, A. 16word lists 87–8, 90word perception, theories of 91–4word ... 1 12 Swerts, M. 125 switchboard corpus 85syllabic conditioning factors 22 , 32 42 syllable production 72 syllable shape 13, 32 3, 42 syllable structures,influence on perceptual cues83 of selected...