THIS PUBLICATION PROVIDES A HISTORICAL REVIEW AND LISTING OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES, BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN. THE VOLUME DEALS WITH THE LESSER-KNOWN BRANCHES OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY AND THE MAIN LANGUAGES OF THIS GROUP COMMON TO MODERN TIMES. (THE REPORT IS PART OF A SERIES, ED 010 350 TO ED 010 367.) (JK)

This article discusses the history of the Galician language. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Irrespective of the traditional reconstructions related to the theory of well known families of languages such as Indo-European or Semitic, some researchers have aimed at rebuilding super-families, going as far as a Proto-global family. Several puzzling agreements between their proposals and the reconstructions made by the genetics populations…

PACEFI is a working committee at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland. (DS)

Discusses research in listening comprehension and proposes model for listening comprehension activities in college French conversation courses. (BK)

Discusses value of leading Spanish readers including their sources, language, organization, instructional exercises, vocabulary building, and oral and written exercises. (BK)

Demonstrates that etymology as a word attack strategy for second language students does not offer an unfair advantage to students whose first languages are Latin-based. Much of the English language makes use of Latin roots and affixes. Students whose original language is derived from Latin will initially have an advantage in word recognition due…

Objective: To examine the associations between duration of institutionalization, age at abandonment, and mental and physical health outcomes of young institutionalized children in Romania and to examine patterns of associations between placement history, physical growth variables, and psychiatric symptoms. Method: Institutionalized children (ages…

In an investigation of discourse sensitivity, Catalan-speaking children aged 4 to 8 years were asked two different questions in a picture description task. One was a wide-focus question ("What is happening?"); the other was a narrow-focus question ("What is happening to 'the patient'?"). Children of all age groups displayed sensitivity to the…

Classical Latin, Vulgar Latin, and Romance vowel sounds and their production are discussed. (RM)

More than 1,100 selected references and source studies are listed in this bibliography, compiled in connection with a research project entitled "The Syntax of Contemporary Brazilian Portuguese." The articles selected formed a part of the "Working Bibliography" and are all considered to be relevant to the analysis of Brazilian…

In 1975, Maryland began training teachers who wished to experiment with Esperanto in their classes, usually as part of an exploratory course in a foreign language appreciation program. Teachers have observed a marked increase in motivation among students exposed to Esperanto. (Author/KM)