Lecture given at the conference on Gegenwartssprache and Gesellschaft'' (Contemporary Language and Society) at the Evangelische Akademie'' in Loccum, West Germany, February 26-28, 1971. (RS)

Attempts to show that phrase-structure diagrams (commonly called trees) are inadequate for the representation of meaning, particularly for that variety of meaning called descriptive content. (RS)

Research supported by a University of Nebraska Research Council Summer Fellowship. (DD)

Reprinted from the November 1971 issue of the Journal of Thought.'' (DD)

Conclusion drawn is that bilinguals, brought up in a one-person, one-language home environment, reach a stage in semantic development some 2-3 years earlier than their unilingual peers. (Author/CB)

Author tries to provide a rationale for the study of foreign languages other than the customary promise, so rarely fulfilled, that the student will learn to speak a foreign tongue fluently. (Editor/CB)

The connotative structure of self-concept was examined by factor analysis of a semantic differential instrument and found to be essentially constant through adolescence, more so for boys than for girls. (Author)

Research supported by contracts of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense, with the Human Performance Center, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan. (RS)

Original version of this paper was read at the Fifth Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, University of Maryland, May 1971. Argues that accounting for coherence in discourse should be one of the goals of linguistic theory; making coherent discourse, not the isolated sentence, the domain of linguistic explanation also throws…

Using the Semantic Differential, 274 first-year university students rated four concepts concerning university, producing scores on evaluation', potency' and activity'. For comparision these concepts were each paired with a concept relating to school. (Author)

Discussion of phenomenon of shape-differentiation as it appears in the numerical classifiers, classificatory verbs, and body-part suffixes of the Tarascan language. (RS)