Reports on several stages of development in the acquisition of the Spanish copulas "ser" and "estar" by adult learners of Spanish and how the data relate to current hypotheses about second language acquisition. Postulates three stages of competence in the use of "ser" and "estar." (SED)

A test found responses to the Sickness Impact Profile highly reliable, whether administered in Spanish or English. However, construct validity of responses by Mexican Americans using the Spanish version, non-Hispanics using the English version, and Mexican Americans using the English version was weak. (CMG)

Provides representative statistics concerning the degree and rank-ordering of irregularity among verb tenses of Spanish. Indicates that the present is the most morphologically irregular of all Spanish tenses. The least irregular tense is the imperfect. (SL)

Discusses the improper use of superlatives in Spanish. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Third and concluding part of a continued article. (SK)

First part of a continued article. (SK)

Speech delivered at the 28th General Assembly of the United Nations, October 10, 1973. (SK)

Adaptation of a paper presented to the Mediaeval Literature Section of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, South Hampton, March, 1971. Kharjas'' (jarchas) are the final stanzas of certain Arabic or Hebrew poems written in the Moorish dialect and of a lyric nature. (DD)