We are pleased to be able to honor Arthur J. Bronstein with this volume of essays. We are all the more pleased because the volume has consider­ able intrinsic merit, but neither the reader nor Arthur should have any doubts about our primary purpose in assembling this book. That the col­ lection is intrinsically valuable is, in itself, a tribute to the man whom it honors: The contributing authors are all colleagues, students, and friends of Arthur. Readers who are acquainted with Arthur will not be surprised by the broad range of academic expertise which has been brought to bear on the subject of language in this book. They will recognize that Arthur's own range of expertise and interest is only barely matched by the contents of the essays and the backgrounds of their authors. On the other hand, those who know little about Arthur may have thought of him primarily in narrow association with phonetics and lin­ guistics, most likely as the author of The Pronunciation of American English, surely the most influential of American phonetics texts during the last quarter of a century. Although such an association is in many respects appropriate, it is altogether too limited, but this will not deter us from using it as the basis for a relevant and, we hope, revealing metaphor about Arthur J.

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Notes on Borrow(ing) Pit.- The Metaterm 'Cause'.- Assessing the Perception of Speech.- The Pronunciation Judgment Test, 1939-1978.- Surprise.- Stuttering as an Expression of Inefficient Language Development.- Transformations-Meaning-Preserving or Text-Destroying?.- A Method for Eliciting Verbal Graffiti.- Quo Vadunt Studia Classica?.- On Consonants and Syllable Boundaries.- The Continuing Education of the Professional.- Some Data on Second Language Acquisition and Retention by Older Children.- Generative Generative Phonology.- A Note on Replies.- The Phoneme.- Recipe for Relevance.- The Speech of New York City.- Language and Psychoanalysis.- Continuities and Discontinuities in Language Development over the First Two Years.- On the Counterverbality of 'Nonverbal' as a Verbal Term.- Why Do Children Talk?.- The Role of Formant Transitions in the Perception of Stress in Disyllables.- Aspects of Deixis in the Language of Children with Autism and Related Childhood Psychoses.- Jonathan Boucher's Farewell Sermon.