Abstract

The collection of the papers which have been presented by Dr. Miyoko Sugito for these thirty years is intended to consist of seven volumes. Among them the first volume is published under the title Voice of the Japanese (pp.308, 1994), the second under the title English Spoken by the Japanese (pp.359, 1996) and the third under the title Japanese Sounds (pp.373, 1996). These three volumes contain the results obtained by her observations and analyses of acoustic data which heve been recorded by means of spectrograph, dynamic palatography and auditory tests. They are all worth while reading as papers of reference for the study of experimental phonetics.