Based on research carried out under a grant from the National Science Foundation. Revised version of a paper presented at a meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Washington, D.C. in December 1970. (DS)

It was hypothesized that children may experience more difficulty in interpreting "after" than "before" because the sentence typically used in comprehension tasks facilitates dependence on sentence-processing strategies effective with "before" sentences but only partially effective with "after" sentences. For…

Translation into Bafia of the French present tense in its different values requires the translator to make some decisions based on semantic values and implied time factors. Specific considerations and problems are discussed with examples given. (MSE)

Discusses recent trends in neologisms in French suffixes. (AM)

The aim of this article is to show the interaction between syntax and semantics. A question-answer environment, where the answer is composed of an adverbial, is used to demonstrate the interaction. (Text is in French.) (TL)

Experiments with groups of 30 children (aged 3 through 6) and 32 children (aged 5 through 8) showed that (1) children use linguistic form-class information with familiar discrete objects, (2) children do not use linguistic form-class information with familiar food, and (3) children use only object category information with unfamiliar items.…

This study attempted to model specific language impairment (SLI) in a group of 6year-old children with typically developing language by introducing cognitive stress factors into a grammaticality judgment task. At normal speech rate, all children had near-perfect performance. When the speech signal was compressed to 50% of its original rate, to…

In this study, we focused on the formulation of relative clauses with preposition and genitive pied-piping. Thirty child (5;9 to 8;4) and 30 adult Polish speakers were given an elicited production task and a grammaticality judgment task. Almost all of the children accepted preposition pied-piping, but only half of them produced it. We suggest that…

Children as young as two use sentence structure to learn the meanings of verbs. We probed the generality of sensitivity to sentence structure by moving to a different semantic and syntactic domain, spatial prepositions. Twenty-six-month-olds used sentence structure to determine whether a new word was an object-category name ("This is a corp!") or…

Words that are rarely used in spoken English should be expelled or excommunicated from the language. The reasons behind banishing one such word "whom", an English relative pronoun that is used as the object of a preposition or of a verb, and replacing it with "who" are discussed.

Academic failure, exclusionary discipline practices, and dropout have been identified as key elements in a "school to prison pipeline." Although a strong body of research exists on the risks for delinquency, few studies have attempted to understand the variables within schools that exacerbate or counteract these risks. We conducted three…