Describes the characteristics associated with children who have receptive language disability or aphasia, the difficulties these children have in everyday living, the problems they can expect in school, and the responsibility of the teacher and parent in helping the aphasic child overcome his problem. (RK)

Discusses a romanized phonetics system, pinyin, which is introduced to Chinese pupils in the first grade primer. The objective of teaching the sounds of Mandarin characters in conjunction with their meanings is to provide China's younger generation with a common tongue. (Author/DB)

A comparison of the linguistic development of the young child and the language of advertising. It is noted that relative structural identity exists between certain advertisements and certain linguistic productions of the child because of the similarity of conditions in which the linguistic tool is used. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Spontaneous speech samples of 15 children were analyzed for appropriate and inappropriate use and nonuse of the past tense verbal inflection. It was found that: (1) two types of overgeneralization errors have acquisitional relevance; and (2) partial regularity blocks overgeneralization errors. Two hypotheses were not supported. (CHK)

A discussion of syntax and different kinds of expression based on discourse analysis of children aged ten to twelve. The extent to which linguistic structures and syntax are determined by the type of language usage and expression is studied. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A discussion of the child's language acquisition including examples of syntactic development. This analysis is introduced by references to various language theories, particularly the generative and psycholinguistic theories, and to various systems of syntactic description. The examples given raise questions on the theoretic and ideological levels.…

This article discusses a chapter to be published on the state of psycholinguistics in Brazil. (CFM)

An investigation of the differences between first and second language acquisition and the relationship between age and second language learning. The stages in native language acquisition and the advantages of an early start in second language learning are discussed. (AMH)

This discussion of research issues centers on the selection of content for language programs for handicapped children and examines whether a normal developmental sequence of language acquisition is appropriate in construction of a language intervention program. Child centered and planned sequence of instruction teaching approaches are contrasted.…

A computer program for measuring the complexity of syntactic structures in different levels of graded reading materials and in children's oral and written language is presented. (RW)

This study examined several hypotheses about second language learning by testing them in a training format designed to teach Spanish to children in the fifth through eighth grades and to adults in night school. (JMB)

Concluded that factual questions appear to inhibit the higher cognitive processes of grade 2 and grade 4 subjects, while the interpretive questions stimulate the higher cognitive processes. (DD)

Reviews one study of writing across the secondary curriculum and focuses on interrelationships of language development, research, and teaching. Advocates that school systems institute guidelines by which all teachers, regardless of their specialist areas, take responsibility for students' overall language development. (RL)

An intervention study investigated effects of maternal behavior on the cognitive and language functioning of economically disadvantaged four-year-olds (N=40) at risk for mental retardation. Mothers who increased inductive, responsive, and complex behavior and mothers who increased only inductive and responsive behavior both effectively increased…