In this book, an attempt is made to describe how people actually speak and the language that is actually spoken. The subject of modern linguistics is presented in a new light. Good language is defined as a tension between the code and what needs to be said and a tension between the expressivity of the speaker and the comprehension of the hearer.…

Within the past several years, many works which deal with the phonology of disadvantaged Afro-American populations have appeared. Certain difficulties are encountered in these studies. These include difficulties in obtaining data and in determining analytical procedure. For this analysis of the phonology of the disadvantaged Afro-American…

The 12 articles in this bulletin were originally published in various issues of "Elementary English" volumes 47 and 48. The purpose of the bulletin is to provide a qualitative analysis of data in the various Educational Resources Information Centers (ERIC) that are related to research in oral language learning. (DB)

A CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE OF HINDI WAS FORMULATED TO ACCOUNT FOR THE PHENOMENA OF COMPOUND AND CONJUNCT VERBS IN THE LANGUAGE. THE TRADITIONAL CLASS OF CONJUNCT VERBS OR THE COMPOUND VERBS, CONSISTING OF NOUN OR ADJECTIVE PLUS VERB, WAS REINTERPRETED IN THIS ANALYSIS. THE FOUR SECTIONS OF THE TEXT DEALT WITH (1) THE SUBJECT-PREDICATE KERNEL…

Two experiments are reported investigating young children's comprehension of linguistic reference to past and future times. Available from Plenum Publishing Corp., 227 W. 17th St., New York, NY 10011. (Author/RM)

The inadequacy of the use of the linguist's introspective judgments of meaning and grammaticality as a basis for language studies in syntax and semantics is described, as is the need for improved methods. The evaluation of alternative methodologies by replication experiments is explored. (Author/RM)

After reading stories written in either chronological or flashback sequence, subjects made a decision about the underlying order of occurrence of two events. Results indicate that subjects based their responses on a memory representation, which preserved the input sequence of events. (Author/EJS)

Reports on an experiment that seems to indicate that hypnosis can improve foreign language pronunciation. (Author/AM)

Four Dutch-English bilinguals were asked to imitate and to identify 64 isolated vowel stimuli. Imitation behavior turned out to be categorical to some degree, comprising vowel phonemes from both languages. A significant correlation was found between identification categories and imitation clusters. (Author/CFM)

Illustrates how path analysis can be used to test implied or inherent causal models in language. (DD)

This study of language use among secondary school students calls into question the hypothesis of social class difference. (DD)

Research efforts designed to improve Russian language instruction are described. (DE)

The science of applied linguistics is discussed in terms of characteristics, theory and interaction with other disciplines. (CHK)

Language researchers should avoid using such terms as "language-defective", "linguistically deviant", "normal", or "healthy" when describing children with or without language problems, because these terms suggest that the children are nothing but their disability. The use of "children with" (or without) plus description of the condition is more…

This description of the types of linguistic information obtainable from online databases generally used to acquire technical information includes examples of equivalent words, English usage, and statistical linguistic data. The implications of online databases as substitutes for dictionaries and as corpora for linguistic survey are considered.…