The speech behavior of 14 depressed and 18 nondepressed mothers during conversations with their 3-year-old children was examined using the Automatic Vocal Transaction Analyzer. Mother-child dyads were observed in three settings for five minutes each: while mother was preparing lunch, during lunch, and while waiting for a doctor. (Author/BN)

Analyses of duration data measured from connected-speech signals for three "slow" and three "fast" adult talkers produced mean values and standard deviations that demonstrated strong functional relationships. Slow speakers were more variable than fast speakers; thus, duration distributions may not indicate the level of…

Explores factors related to employees' willingness to join one type of participatory program, quality circles. Discovers that volunteers are less satisfied with key aspects of their jobs but are committed to the organization and join groups to improve their work life. (MS)

Twenty severely to profoundly hearing-impaired high school students (ages 15-19) evidenced marked improvement in average vocal pitch after implementation of a systematic curriculum that integrated visual and tactile sensory aids into daily speech training. Those using a visual display showed greatest progress. The eight participating teachers…

Two social factors and their interactive effects were examined as possible influences on children's detection and reporting of inconsistent statements. Factors were the stated intention and the age of the speaker. (PCB)

Explores the relationship between interaction involvement as a traitlike dimension of communicative competence and the use of grammatical cohesive devices to create explicit ties within conversation. Presents three dyad types and argues that the patterned use of cohesive devices is sensitive to the nature of the dyad type. (MM)

Reviews factors affecting nonverbal expectancies and the consequences of violating them, comparing those consequences to other models (discrepancy-arousal, arousal-labeling, arousal-valence, sequential functional) employing similar assumptions and mediating variables. Examines an extension of nonverbal expectancy violations theory to multiple…

Suggests that imagined interactions serve several functions including rehearsal for anticipated encounters. Indicates that imagined interactions tend to occur before real interactions, are dominated by the self, and are equally pleasant and unpleasant. (JK)

Conversational turn-taking violations and corresponding repair mechanisms were studied in 30 pairs of mothers and children (ages 2-6). Mothers interrupted significantly more than the children who were more likely to discontinue talking when interrupted than the mothers. Mothers appeared less facilitative of turn-taking than of other pragmatic…

Presents personal interviews with Dr. William Lee Miller, a former speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign for President; Dr. Robert Turner, a former speechwriter for presidents Harry Truman and John Kennedy; and Mrs. Dorothy Collins, a speechwriter for several key administrators at a major midwestern university. (JK)

Indicates that husbands and wives were equally affected by (1) requests with various types of emotional disclosures, and (2) the emotional disclosures of different face-values. Reports that gender did not influence either the objective or subjective effectiveness of a request when it was reasonably appropriate for either males and females to…

Presents the computer program SEPARATE.BAS. and discusses how the use of microcomputer technology for processing textual data offers increased capabilities for the qualitative researcher in speech communication. Discusses how SEPARATE.BAS. assists in the research task of dividing transcripts of interviews or discussions into separate text files…

Identifies communication skills needed in industry and suggests that communication curricula be expanded to prepare students for careers in industrial training. (PD)

Discusses Giambattista Vico's "The New Science," emphasizing the importance of his treatment of metaphor and its relation to rhetorical criticism. (SRT)

Measures the degree of interdependence in timing between infants' right and left arm movements and between movements of both arms and the onsets of stressed vowels in tape-recorded infant-appropriate speech. (HOD)