Love which focuses on an emotional relationship involving some sense of commitment and either an ongoing sexual relationship or the potential for such a relationship is viewed and defined in a variety of ways. Despite the fact that the major portion of a treatise on love devotes itself to a consideration of tendance in love (i.e. aquisitive,…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate seven reading comprehension tests according to the construct of comprehension which they claimed to measure. The 367 items from these tests were classified by two judges according to the following four levels indicated on a reading comprehension taxonomy: recognition and recall, inference, evaluation, and…

Described is the development of an ethnologically unbiased test for proper classification of Mexican-American elementary students. It is explained that of the 14 subtests drawn from standardized and nonstandardized tests and administered to 122 Anglo and Mexican American children (7-9 years old), only five were found to be insignificantly…

Analysis of results of tests of cognitive development in Papua New Guinea children indicated that membership of different language/culture groups was an important source of variance. (Editor)

Explores the possible origins of Malacca Creole Portuguese, and compares and contrasts Papia Kristang with other related creoles. (AM)

A 4 dimensional typology of views of minority group life styles is discussed, with reference to the Mexican American life style. (NQ)

Sixteen suggestions are offered for using extra school space to improve the quality of education. (Author/MLF)

This paper considers morphophonemic changes that take place in verbal stem formation in Gude, a Chadic language of Nigeria. It is necessary to assign the classificatory features of the phonology to syllables rather than to single segments. (CK)

The paper explores problems encountered in using a taxonomy of the psychomotor domain and provides instrumentation useful to structuring statements of objectives to assure well-balanced approaches to industrial and technical education. (Author/AJ)

Attempts to show that the comparison of language structures may be relevant to diachronic linguistics, and in particular to areal linguistics. The article is based on an ongoing comparative study aimed at devising a typology of African languages. (Author/RM)

Supported by the United States Office of Education, Small Projects Program, Grant No. 7-E-103.

Investigation aided by a grant from the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry.