The lesson set in this article describes an introductory learning experience using wildlife camera-based citizen science projects hosted on Zooniverse (http://www.zooniverse.org). Wildlife camera projects were chosen due to the charisma of the study organisms, student engagement while looking at images, ease of access to projects, ease of teaching…

Argues that tables, graphs, and diagrams extend language's power by exploiting the Euclidean possibilities which a text suggests. Notes that graphic display elements form no compatible natural set and that their value and visual elements are decisively disparate. Concludes that graphic displays are unlikely candidates for unitary theoretical…

Syntactical and stylistic characteristics are used to assess the degree of specialization of scientific writing. Two groups of articles dealing with the same subject but differing in degree of specialization are compared; the technical articles have lower percentages of function words and higher numbers of noun adjuncts than the general articles.…

Studies the influence of both a syntactic cue (i.e. agent-deletion) and a semantic cue (i.e. non-reversibility) on the evolving comprehension of passive sentences by young children. (Author/RK)

Acute schizophrenics with either good or premorbid histories were compared with control groups of undergraduates and sixth-grade children on their sensitivity to syntactic structure in speech perception. (Editor)

Presents a more precise analysis of the way in which semantic constraints affect the perception of reversible sentences. (Author/RK)

Conclusion of an article begun in number 5, 1972 (p288-294). (RS)

Free word groups are defined as those in which no component necessarily presupposes the use of any other specific component. (RS)

A close appositive syntagme is defined as an unhyphenated noun combination which is semantically congruent. The new type under discussion consists of a noun with a proper noun, as in die Expedition Spitzbergen'' for die Expedition fuhrt nach Spitzbergen.'' (RS)

Recent findings in developmental psycholinguistics have shown that below the age of eight children have difficulty in understanding English sentences that do not conform to normal SVO pattern (Chomsky, 1969). Experiments with French-speaking children are reported which duplicate and extend this research. (Editor)

Research supported by a University of Nebraska Research Council Summer Fellowship. (DD)

Investigates the influence of handwriting style and composition errors on the marking of essays. (DS)