A study is described which examined the retrieval of regular and irregular past tense verbs. Results suggested that preterites such as "taught" are not stored as separate and independent lexical units but are formed from the verb stem by means of derivational rules. (Author/RM)

Many teachers and teaching assistants report that they lack an understanding of Standard Australian English grammar and that this hinders their work with Indigenous students who are learning English as a second language. This paper reports on the success of an accredited professional development strategy in Far North Queensland. This strategy is…

The linguistic performances of 15 noninstitutionalized and 15 institutionalized retarded children (mean age 13 years) were compared on usage of grammatical categories and structure of spoken language using the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities. (Author/PHR)

Proposes an approach to contrastive linguistics which takes into account syntax and semantics, and discusses the role of such an approach in explaining surface structure differences between English and Chinese sentences of the type: "He is a good pianist" and "I have a bad knee." (AM)

Discusses grading problems encountered in southern dialect writers' themes and makes a distinction between regulative and constitutive rules. (MKM)

Discussion of the theoretical and methodological implications of six studies of the effect of children's expectations on comprehension of the passive transformation and of the Minimum Distance Principle. Study subjects were in kindergarten or elementary school. (Author/MP)

The differences in the meanings of "shall" and "will" are presented, along with examples from various grammars, beginning with the sixteenth century and including contemporary ESL (English as a second language) textbooks. (HP)

Examines and evaluates 20th-century studies in Zhunyanese linguistics, particularly work accomplished since 1955. Discussion focuses on how the studies were developed, what their current state is, and where problems are. A bibliography follows, covering only those works mentioned in the main text. (Author/KM)

A discussion of the integration of magazines and newspapers into the language class, as products and signs of our times. The objective is to put the student in contact with a human and linguistic reality from another culture. A method of vocabulary and grammar instruction is presented. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

It is illustrated that Spanish has influenced Sayula Popoluca lexicon, phonology, and grammar. The article focuses on the phonological changes in the language caused by the Spanish influence. (NCR)

Nine components of a system for teaching shorthand transcription are described and examples of how each component was integrated into courses at Los Angeles City College are presented. (BM)

Addresses the problem of defining the notion "linguistically significant generalization." A rigorous objective method for determining the significance of a generalization, based on probability theory, is proposed. The proposal is illustrated by applying it to examples central to theorizing in generative grammar. (Author/KM)

This Spanish lesson consists of an essay on the use of "usted" and "tu," followed by a series of exercises including questions on the text, vocabulary, grammar and the use of the subjunctive. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

Deaf children's understanding of certain aspects of verb phrase negation was investigated in a study involving 175 deaf Ss (8 to 14 years old) and a comparison group of 40 hearing children (6 to 7 years old). (SBH)

Kuczaj challenged the hypotheses that young children construct utterances by applying transformation rules to an abstract underlying structure. It is contended that Kuczaj's alternative hypotheses do not account for Hurford's data, and some of Kuczaj's new evidence actually supports the Transformational Hypothesis. (SW)