Reviews pertinent developmental and neuropsychological literature and arrives at a hypothesis relating the left brain lateralization of speech to the origin of early naming as part of selective (right-biased) orienting to perceived salience or change. (Author/SS)

An analysis of the mother's speech suggested that her mean length of utterance was unrelated to the infant's age. More object referencing and more directions were given as the child grew older. (Author/DLS)

Examines the understanding of young children and adults of the speaker's use of definite descriptions. Subjects were 64 first and fourth graders and 32 college students. (MP)

Calls for a redefinition of literacy and basics. Acknowledges the expanded classroom and the fact that new partnerships must be established with those who teach beyond the campuses. Educators must acknowledge the communications revolution and help students become more sophisticated as communicators. (JMF)

Includes a summary of measurement in oral communication, the identification of two emerging focuses in measurement, and a description of a measurement strategy. (DD)

Describes how oral stories may form the basis for an approach to the teaching of literature, writing, and language. (DD)

Discusses five studies of early reading which suggest that oral language does not necessarily have to precede reading and that if both are learned at the same time they enrich the child's total language base. (DD)

Examines the use of the word "but" in oral French tape recordings. (AM)

The nonverbal, vocal, and content-related speech variables of 28 blind adults were investigated along with the effects of a behavioral training program on congenitally blind Ss' performance in the social setting. (Author/DLS)

Suggests that the use of the operant conditioning paradigm, as it has been applied to infant social, vocal behavior, fails to take into account the social nature of human infants over and above the rigid theoretical rationale of the Paradigm. (MP)

The results support the hypothesis that the oral review of prose material has a positive influence on retention as measured by cued-recall questions. (RC)

Discusses the role speech-act theory can play in foreign language teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Describes how to analyze children's talk in three categories: factual reporting, interpretive reporting, and reasoning. (DD)

A study involving 12 hearing sign language users examined the effect of the signing task on temporal features of speech during simultaneous communication (SC). Results indicated longer sentence duration for SC than speech-only conditions, and longer anticipatory duration of the diphthong and interword interval preceding the experimental words.…