A general observation about the vocabularies of most languages is that they tend to increase in size over time. Little is known about the causal mechanisms involved in this lexical expansion, but most anthropologists and linguists are in agreement that it probably mirrors general cultural evolution. The study of lexical growth becomes important if…

An attempt is made to overcome the shortcomings in Robinson's model of generative grammar by modifying her dependency rules and adding semantic specifications to the dependents of V, taking into account some of the considerations that led Fillmore to make up his cases. (Author)

A definition of the original meaning of "audiolingual," as coined by the author in the 1950s, with a plea for the reinstatement of that meaning. Classroom procedures based on the original concept are offered. (TL)

Proposes a methodology for teaching comprehension of a foreign language in both the reading and the listening domains. (Text is in French.) (TL)

The first part of this paper presents a set of principles that constitute a theory of lexical meaning. The second part considers the implications of the theory for the teaching of English vocabulary in foreign or second language classrooms. (CLK)

Discusses the role of illustrations used to clarify the meaning of dialogues in instruction in French as a second language. (Text is in French.) (AM)

The arguments for and against viewing the child's initial one-word utterances as holophrases are reviewed. An alternative view of early language development, which takes the speech act as the basic unit of linguistic communication, rather than the sentence, is offered as a solution to the holophrase controversy. (Author/RM)

The document contains papers of seven research studies conducted by graduate students at the Speech and Hearing Center of the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Queens College of the City University of New York. Papers have the following titles and authors: "Assessing Pragmatic Functioning in Language Disordered Children" (K.…

This supplement to the Peace Corps Course in Tunisian Arabic is intended primarily for Peace Corps volunteers, but is also useful to other English speakers who wish to acquire systematically a knowledge of Tunisian Arabic. The dictionary consists of two parts. The lexicon, which begins with a chart of all the phonetic symbols used in the…

Dutch children (ten five year olds and ten seven year olds) were asked to repeat two-clause sentences that varied in internal semantic cohesiveness. Results showed that semantic factors were primary in determining the five year olds' performance, while seven year olds, though possibly not insensitive to semantic variables, were retaining syntactic…

The ways in which preschoolers use the word "but" were studied. It was found that the eight preschoolers, who ranged in age from 3;9 to 5;5, were able to use "but" to express a number of different types of adversative relationships. "But" introduced clauses containing information that: (1) contrasted with shared knowledge about the usual state of…

Twenty college students, ten each in the experimental and control groups, were the subjects of an experiment designed to demonstrate that integration of verb meanings occurs in connected discourse. Six paragraph-length stories, each of which included one or two critical sentences containing a general verb, were presented orally to the subjects.…

Some theoretical definitions of attitudes, including various assumptions that underlie most approaches to attitude mesurement, are presented, and directions and findings of attitude research approaches to attitude measurement are the Bogardus Social Distance Scale, the semantic differential, and the Likert scale, each characterized by a particular…