PURPOSE In this study, the authors examined the influences of selected social (gender, employment status, educational achievement level) and style variables (race of examiner, interview topic) on the production of African American English (AAE) by adults. METHOD Participants were 50 African American men and women, ages 20-30 years. The authors used Rapid and Anonymous Survey (RAS) methods to ...

Cigarette smuggling reduces the price of cigarettes, thwarts youth access restrictions, reduces government revenue, and undercuts the ability of taxes to reduce consumption. The tobacco industry often opposes increases to tobacco taxes on the claim that greater taxes induce more smuggling. To date, little is known about the magnitude of smuggling in the Philippines. his information is necessary...

Pulsed UV laser machining is an established method for production of 2.5D and 3D features in a wide variety of materials. In addition to direct laser patterning by ablation, exposure of photoresist using pulsed lasers can eliminate the need for large area contact photomasks. Half-tone machining, either by ablation or exposure, allows the production of high quality shallow features where the sur...

Long-Term Representations of Pitch Structure vs. Short-Term Effects of the Perceptually Immediate Context One issue raised by Butler (1989; see also Butler 1988b) is whether experiments such as these which demonstrate hierarchical differentiation of This content downloaded from 128.84.127.82 on Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:52:11 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 312 Carol L. Krumhansl tone...