Outlines a method of determining which words should be selected as the basic vocabulary for French courses. Rather than using frequency as its criterion, this method defines lexical utility in terms of definition, inclusion, extension, and combination. The Quebec list and the Francais Fondamental are evaluated. (EJS)

Analyses for stress patterns of the first 1,000 nouns and 500 verbs from a high-frequency Russian vocabulary list. The most irregular patterns are seen in the most frequently occurring items and, therefore, should be learned early in the study of Russian. (Author/LMO)

Discusses how current procedures for selecting/constructing equivalent texts may lead to error because of their specific limitations; proposes the utilization of micro-propositional analysis coupled with word-frequency lists and readability formulas for constructing "matching" texts; presents some procedures which researchers working in…

Analyzes the resolutions of the Socialist and Communist parties in France in 1924 and 1925, and affirms the notion of a counter-grammar and counter-transformations. Also analyzes the linguistic environment of the most frequently used words. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Analyzes the pronunciation of initial word position consonant clusters in modern French according to linguistic context and derivation; and analyzes the pronunciation of the "silent 'e'" according to linguistic and stylistic considerations. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/AM)

From the individual expressive vocabularies of 19 preschool deaf children a composite vocabulary list of 493 words was assembled to include all words and expressions used by two or more children. (Author/MC)

Report from the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning, supported in part as a research and development center by funds from the United States Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (VM)

Experiment was concerned with the validity of the assumptions involved in the proposal of some minor modifications in the frequency theory of verbal-discrimination learning. (Author/CB)

An experiment is described on the free-recall learning of a list of high-frequency words. The results are consistent with the view that the number of mnemonic units' or chunks' recalled remains constant over trials and over a retention interval of one week. (Authors)

Frequency theory of verbal discrimination learning holds that the correct and incorrect alternatives of each word pair acquire differential frequencies. (Author/MB)