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)

In a study designed to investigate the verbal environment of a language-impaired child, the speech addressed to a language-impaired boy (4.7 years old) and to his normal-speaking female cousin (4.6 years old) by the boy's mother, father, and baby-sitter was analyzed. (Author/IM)

Increasingly, the importance of non-verbal behavior in the classroom is being acknowledged. A qualitative description of studies examining the relationship between non-verbal behavior and right-left brain functioning is provided. (CP)

An equation is derived which predicts the relationship between the subjective information content of written textual material and the relative number of errors committed by a learner when asked to predict, letter by letter, the content of given textual material. (Author)

The language spoken to young children is described and shown to constitute a special speech style. (GO)

Examined how third and fifth grade students who are poor communicators differ from those who are good communicators. Poor communicators were less effective on a self communication task than good communicators, and they did not engage in comparison activity even for their own private understanding. (GO)

Investigates the relationship between individual student rates of volunteering in the classroom and the differential rates of teacher questions directed to that student and the percentage of students volunteering approved by the teacher. Results imply that students control whether they receive a directed question and how frequently the teacher…

Studied couples' resolution of existing marital issues. Videotapes of distressed and nondistressed couples were coded by two groups. Hypothesis which were studied involve the function of metacommunication, the expression of feelings, summarizing self versus other, feeling probes, nonverbal behavior during message delivery, context differences, and…

This study examined the role of communicative explicitness, sex, and social class upon children's utilization of a wide variety of hesitation phenomena. Speech samples were analyzed for 20 children 5 years of age. (JMB)

Examined effects of verbal procedures on persistence for rehabilitation clients using experimental approaches influencing persistence on undergraduate students (N=115) The moral reasoning approach resulted in significantly greater persistence than did other approaches or controls. Concludes that persistence can be influenced by verbal approaches…

Congenitally-blind (N=16) and sighted (N=16) young adults listened to descriptions of routes and then finger traced routes through a raised line matrix. Route tracing speed and accuracy revealed that spatial sentence verification interfered with route memory more than abstract/verbal sentence verification for all subjects. (Author/CB)

Author-supplied item labels for two common speech discrimination tests were compared with those given spontaneously by 40 children (median age 5:5). Agreement between subjects' and authors' labels was 76.3 percent on the Word Intelligibility by Picture Identification test and 75 percent on the Northwestern University Children's Perception of…

An ethnographic approach is used to determine how anger and aggression relate to the native childrearing theories held by child caregivers from an urban, working-class neighborhood. The three socialization contexts identified were the caregiver's life experiences, childrearing ideology, and childrearing practices. (JS)

Study recorded the ongoing verbal and nonverbal behavior of 156 preschool children (M age=51.1 months) as they played, in dyads, during 78 cooperation episodes. The results are discussed in terms of the motivational and organizational role of both transient and enduring affective states during cooperation episodes. (Author/RWB)