In this article, we establish some new criteria for the oscillation of fourth-order nonlinear delay differential equations of the form
$$(r_2(t)(r_1(t)(y''(t))^\alpha)')' + p(t)(y''(t))^\alpha + q(t)f(y(g(t))) = 0$$
provided that the second-order equation
$$(r_2(t)z'(t))') + \frac{p(t)}{r_1(t)}z(t) = 0$$
is nonoscillatory or oscillatory.