available review book listed linguist office available review interested reviewing book leading discussion book please contact book review editor andrew carnie carnie linguistlist org please include request message brief statement research interests background affiliation information might valuable help us select suitable reviewer language acquisition prosody hung feng sheng 1996 prosody acquisition grammatical morphemes chinese languages indiana university linguistics club comparison study hung investigates influence prosodic phonological factors acquisition frequently occurring grammatical morphemes two morphosyntactically similar prosodically different languages namely taiwan mandarin chinese taiwanese analysis patterns realization omission morphemes children speech concludes rhythmic characteristics languages affect segmentation input speech providing different kinds prosodic handles novice grasp metrical feet may offer mandarin children one kind segmentation handle taiwanese however syllable likely functions segmentation unit