Title	Author	page
“Interfaces between Phonetics and Other Areas of Linguistic Research”
Preface	Kikuo Maekawa	3
Are Interface Studies Possible?	Koichi Tateishi	4
Allophony: The Phonology-Phonetics Interface	Kensuke Nanjo	20
The Predictability of Diachronic Sound Changes in Phonological Theory: The Case of sC Clusters	Noriko Yamane	29
Studies on Rhythm in Speech Production and Perception as an Interface Between Phonetics and Cognitive Science	Mafuyu Kitahara	41
Translation of IPA into Braille	Kohjiro Hisabe	48
Research Articles
NC Patterns in Catalan: Constraints on Underlying Forms	Hideki Zamma	55
On Disfluencies of Stutterers and Nonstutterers in Japanese	Akira Ujihira	65

Title	Author	page
“Contrasting English and Japanese Phonetics”
Preface	Kikuo Maekawa	3
A Study on Phonetic Characteristics of Stop Consonantss in Japanese and English	Katsumasa Shimizu	4
Vowel Coarticulation in Japanese and English	Yuko Kondo	11
Mechanisms of suprasegmental change in Japanese and English: An analysis of variation in word accent	Noriko Hattori	22
A Study of Japanese Speech Timing from the Syllable Perspective	Nick Campbell	29
The Phonetic Differences between Japanese and English: The Characteristics of English Pronunciation by Japanese Speakers	Tsutomu Sato	40
Research Articles
An acoustic study of lax and forced alveolar fricatives in Korean in word initial position and preceded by a consonant	Makoto Takeda, Miho Nigo and Yukie Masuko	51
Poetic Rhythm In English	Kazuyuki Watanabe	72

Title	Author	page
“Phonetics of Interlanguage”
Preface	Satoshi Toki	3
Interlanguage Studies: Japanese learners’ sound systems	Takako Ayusawa	4
Pitch Realization of 2/3-Mora-Words by Brazilian Learners of Japanese	Yasuhiko Sukegawa	13
Phonetic Education of Japanese for Korean Speakers	Hiroshi Matsuzaki	26
Chinese Dialects Which Encourage Acquisition of Japanese Phonetic Recognition for Chinese-speaking Learners	Nobuko Wang	36
The Pronunciation of Japanese by American Students	Tanomu Kashima	43
Research Articles
Voicing in Onomatopoeia and the Markedness of [p]	Akio Nasu	52
Perception of Naturalness and Vowel Categories of Whispered Vowels	Masahiro Matsuda, Hiroki Mori and Hideki Kasuya	67
Reviews
Yukinori Takubo, Kikuo Maekawa, Haruo Kubozono, Kiyoshi Honda, Katsuhiko Shirai, Seiichi Nakagawa : Iwanami Kouza, Gengo no Kagaku2, Onsei	Hiroshi Usami	76
Congress Report
Congress Report: 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences	Kikuo Maekawa, Keiichi Tajima, Katsumasa Shimizu, Shinobu Masaki and Hiroaki Kato	80