The effects of a prose passage's physical structure and semantic organization upon free recall performance was investigated. Passages, describing characteristics of fictitious countries, contained either five or nine paragraphs of varying lengths. Differences in the distribution of materials interacted with type of semantic organization to produce…

Explores the use of reflexive pronouns in French. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Papers on nominal syntagma as objects in discourse include: "Quelques notions utiles a la semantique des descripteurs nominaux" ("Some Useful Notions on the semantics of Nominal Descriptors") (Alain Berrendonner); "Note sur le statut semantique et la fonction de quelques relatives integrees" ("Note on the…

This paper discusses factors contributing to differing translations of the same source text, arguing that translation occurs on a continuum rather than having absolute criteria and procedures. Issues examined include the formal properties of the text, the text's "invariant core of meaning," stability in the semantic elements of the text, the text…

Discusses the learning process and language usage in the English classroom, building on a theory of language originated by Alfred Korzybski. (RB)

Revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 24, 1972; research supported by a Summer Research Grant, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill. (DD)

The purpose of the research reported here was to evaluate the meaning of words within the language system to both black and white persons in order to determine whether substantially different meanings exist for people according to racial background. (Author/JM)

Special issue devoted to the study of generative grammar in German-speaking countries. (VM)

Paper presented before the Indiana University Linguistics Club on May 13, 1971, in Bloomington, Indiana. (VM)

Paper presented at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, on December 2, 1970. (DS)