Demonstrates that an understanding of children's language-acquisition difficulties with a wide range of syntactic constructions should be derived from limitations on the child's ability to deal with processing load and formal representational complexity. Maintains this can be done only in the context of a view of syntactic representation…

Mastering sentence-construction skills is essential to learning to write. Limited sentence-construction skills may hinder a writer's ability to translate ideas into text. It may also inhibit or interfere with other composing processes, as developing writers must devote considerable cognitive effort to sentence construction. The authors examined…

This study aims at verifying whether Portuguese gender-inflected nouns and adjectives are represented as full forms as suggested by Spanish data (Dominguez, Cuetos, & Segui, 1999). A series of lexical decision experiments is reported. Grammatical gender, frequency dominance, and grammatical category are manipulated and cumulative frequency is…

The basic functions of the Academy are the editing of a grammar and a dictionary. The article suggests some improvements for the more expeditious and efficient publication of the dictionary. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

READABILITY RESEARCHERS HAVE MADE ADVANCES IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, INCREASING THE ACCURACY OF READABILITY FORMULAS BY AS MUCH AS 75 PERCENT. THIS PROGRESS WAS POSSIBLE LARGELY BECAUSE RESEARCHERS IN SEVERAL DISCIPLINES DEVELOPED RESEARCH TOOLS WHICH AIDED IN THE STUDY OF READABILITY. PSYCHOLOGISTS DEVELOPED THE CLOZE PROCEDURE INTO AN ACCURATE AND…

AN INTERMEDIATE LEVEL TEXT WAS COMPILED FOR 2D-YEAR YORUBA STUDENTS. THE MATERIALS WERE DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE STUDENT'S CONVERSATIONAL FACILITY. THE PRESENT WORK PRESENTS SEQUENCES AND CONSTRUCTIONS WHICH ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF YORUBA CONVERSATIONAL STYLE AND OF EXTENDED DISCOURSE SUCH AS IS FOUND IN STORIES, FOLKTALES, AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS.…

This English-Chinyanja (Cinyanja) dictionary was prepared and published by the Zambesi Mission for use in Africa. Compilers of this volume were aided by Africans of Southern Angoniland and a Yao tribesman from the Blantyre district knowledgeable in Chinyanja. Spelling rules used are those of the United Translation Board, which has adopted…

Facts concerning the usage of modal auxiliaries which express an ability are presented. The following examples are illustrated: "can,""could,""may,""might,""will," and "would." (IFS/MS)

Shows that the interrogative "who" as a subject may be either singular or plural. (EKN)

Explains the different kinds of faulty complements made with "to be."

The author describes a few strategies in teaching more than one grammatical system in secondary schools. (MR)

Of the many new ways of teaching grammar, none is so good as a conceptual use of an old-fashioned device--diagramming sentences. Diagramming is a visual aid, a very modern device. (EB)

Believes modern linguistics has done little to explore German modal particles because by focusing on sentences as the basic category for linguistic thinking these words did not seem to matter. Describes model which gives students experience with these particles in meaningful communication. (Author/BK)

Suggests several inventive teaching techniques to liven up grammar lessons. (JMB)