Practical suggestions for the treatment of false cognates and makeshift or expedient translations in vocabulary instruction. (RS)

Results do not support Piaget's explanation of object conceptualization. (MB)

Grammatical sentences were easier to imitate than ungrammatical ones only when function words were included in the sentence; with function words absent, there was no significant difference. (Authors)

Suggests the level at which errors could be treated in sixth form physics (England) and then describes two design exercises in which rough estimations of errors are used in the making of design decisions. (Author/PR)

Results supported the hypothesis that bilinguals would make more errors in English than native speakers, and that English unilinguals would err more on German than on English pentagrams. (Author)

Article reveals that positive instance errors arose more often from memory deficits and from choice of irrelevant dimensions. Negative instance errors arose when interpreting information about present stimuli and the relevant dimension. (Author)

Paper presented at the Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Linguistik Conference in November 1969 in Stuttgart, West Germany. (RS)

This paper describes an intelligent spelling error correction system for use in a word processing environment. The system employs a dictionary of 93,769 words and, provided the intended word is in the dictionary, it identifies 80 percent to 90 percent of spelling and typing errors. Nine references are cited. (Author/EJS)