An investigation was conducted to determine the effect of vowel environment on consonant durations in the speech of 10 normal-hearing, 10 hearing-impaired, and 10 deaf adult male speakers. The deaf do not appear to learn the influence of vowels on consonant duration, as does a normal-hearing population. (Author/SW)

Presents a case study in which the use of intricate varieties of levels of honorifics in Japanese is more complicated than traditional sociolinguistics has shown. The buraku (Japanese barrio) treated here is situated in the west part of Honshu, Japan, and consists of 13 households. (CHK)

Eleven language teachers were videotaped teaching the same lesson to determine how they treated students' errors. Analysis showed types of errors treated and treatments used were similar; grammar errors seemed less important than incorrect meaning. Suggested alternative treatments are based on the importance to learning of contrasts, redundancy…

Suggests that a career in communication necessitates a strong personal commitment because communication professionals deal in human choices. Illustrates language-choice interaction by examining the rhetoric of those who have confronted difficult choices, including Ben Franklin, Abe Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, and Ms. Waterbury. (MH)

Examines the Communication Skills course developed at the Bernard M. Baruch College in 1973 in an effort to serve the new student population resulting from CUNY's Open Admission policy. (MH)

Describes a teacher-to-student feedback system consisting of a television typewriter which allows for spontaneous and direct transmission of teacher comments to students during their speech performance. (MH)

Explains an exercise useful for basic speech course instruction designed to facilitate interaction with strangers. (MH)

Discusses a study designed to explore behavior changes in subjects' performances as a function of evaluative feedback and examines the relations between judgements of physical attractiveness and social competence. (MH)

Defines communication apprehension as "an individual's level of fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with another person or persons", and summarizes research and theory in this specialized area of human communication. (MH)

Kuczaj challenged the hypotheses that young children construct utterances by applying transformation rules to an abstract underlying structure. It is contended that Kuczaj's alternative hypotheses do not account for Hurford's data, and some of Kuczaj's new evidence actually supports the Transformational Hypothesis. (SW)

A preliminary study dealt with the ways in which children between six and seven years of age organize spoken language, specifically aspects of the temporal and segmental structure of polysyllabic English words containing the syllable C/jul/ (e.g., pediculous). (Author/SW)

Using practical examples, such as the language experience of foreign tourists, it is shown that the "natural method" (using target language only) hinders learning. Use of the mother tongue is necessary for learning foreign structures (e.g., arranging native words according to the foreign syntax). (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Within the framework of modern language teaching objectives, an inventory is presented of various socio-cultural activities in which written communication plays a key role. Writing is typed according to the situation. The status of written language is assessed from the aspect of multilingualism and of diglossia. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Observations on the situation of Provencal based on a study of inhabitants of a small town in Provence. A situation leading to abandonment of a language is described. It is indicated that the dissociation of all defining elements of a language corresponds to the process of abandonment of the language. (AMH)