The article refers to Soviet neologisms and their treatment in East and West Germany. Morphological formation of new Russian words, the problem of German language equivalents and fifferences between West and East German treatment of them are dealt with. (Text is in German.) (DH)

Discusses abbreviations in contemporary French words from a sociolinguistic point of view, taking into account the morphological and syntactical consequences. (AM)

This bibliography on cross-cultural, Spanish/English linguistic borrowing consists of 185 items, virtually all of which are annotated. The bibliography is preceded by a discussion of the linguistic communities and the classification of borrowings. (KM)

Spoonerisms can be elicited by having the subject articulate a target preceded by bias items. Any systematic difference in rate of errors between similar targets must result from processes after recoding of target into its slip. Editing processes make lexical outcomes more frequent than nonsense outcomes. (CHK)

Evaluates tenses as to (1) communicative importance, (2) frequency, and (3) range. Under (1), finds actual tense less important than accompanying adverbials and extra-linguistic factors. Discusses chief difficulties appearing in use and interpretation of past tenses, and how the results of linguistic research may help to deal with them. (Text is…

Describes, adducting many examples, the external relative clause, discussing it from the pedagogical standpoint. This type of clause, belonging to normal speech, and not being merely a stylistic matter, belongs in the basic course. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The article explores syntactic and semantic aspects of the use of the Russian reflexive-possessive pronoun "svoj" versus the various other possessive pronouns. Examples drawn from literary texts and contemporary speech serve as the basis for comparison and analysis. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

This study examines the interaction between the deletion of the nominal plural marker and the verbal plural marker in Puerto Rican Spanish. It seeks to establish whether: (1) marker deletion in the noun phrase and marker deletion in the verb phrase specifically constrain each other, or (2) the system of local concord noted for the noun phrase…

In a collaborative effort, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Document Design Project conducted an evaluation of marine radio rules for recreational boaters that had been rewritten in plain English by FCC personnel. The revised rules were evaluated by 53 experienced boaters and 52 inexperienced boaters, who were given either the…

Analysis of the ten volumes of the journal "Planning and Changing" published from 1970 through 1979 revealed a low number of articles authored by women, the absence of women among consultants to the editor, widespread use of sex-biased language, and a lack of articles about implementation of equal employment and equal education…

This paper challenges the characterization of bilingual behavior derived from the code-switching model, and especially the notion of linguistic independence on which psychological studies of bilingualism have focused almost exclusively. While linguists have concentrated on the situational determinants of code-switching, psychologists have focused…

The orthographic compounds (two or more words written as one word) in M. Rhode and B. Cronnell's lexicon of words used by elementary school children are categorized in this paper, primarily in terms of related semantic/syntactic structures. Following a discussion of orthographic compounds, the paper mentions procedures used by Rhode and Cronnell…