Discusses the stratification and specialization of common language into sublanguages for various spheres of activity and the introduction of the sublanguages into different language boundaries. (CK)

To ensure reliable language data for research there is a need for experiments eliciting acceptability judgments. Experimental data are discussed to show that evaluation of a sentence may be affected by the sentence with which it is paired. Sentences with similar deviances should be presented as a set for evaluation. (CHK)

The corpus of the study is presented and discussed, problems of Spanish suffix analysis are presented, and then noun usage--suffixed versus unsuffixed nouns, the gender marker in the corpus, the most frequently used suffixes, and general characteristics and trends of usage-are discussed. (SCC)

A 1971 study of formation of language attitudes and their basis, and in particular the concept of "best" language variety, among predominantly immigrant Mexican-American parents is reported. (RM)

Use of English expressions in Israeli universities is discussed. A study among Israeli psychologists inquiring into the relative weight of variables associated with the use of Hebrew versus non-Hebrew terms is reported. (RM)

Describes the linguistic backgrounds of Sweden and Finland and presents a few examples of recent sociolinguistic research in these countries. (CFM)

Eighteen issues are outlined concerning theory and measurement of attitude, and language attitude in particular, and research motivated by these issues described. (RM)

An attempt to apply Blom's and Gumperz' model of code-switching to a small Swedish community in northern Sweden, Burtrask. The informants spoke standard Swedish, the Burtrask dialect, and a third variety which was a combination of the two. (CFM)

This article discusses prepositive expressions, expressions whose meaning is equivalent to that of one single preposition, and preposition groups in French. (Text is in French.) (CLK)