Discusses the esthetic ideas of Henri Bergson with particular emphasis on his thoughts about "intuition" in art and the importance of the prosodic features of literary style. The prosodic quality parallels or reproduces the rhythm of the thoughts being expressed. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

This article offers a new definition of the concept of auxiliaries, based on the conviction that auxiliarity is a grammatical function rather than a semantic, logical or metaphorical one. Examples are taken from Spanish. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

An argument is presented with a supportive experiment which suggests that the use of male terms such as he, his, and man sometimes fail to be gender-neutral, even in explicitly gender-neutral contexts, and may therefore be a cause of sex bias and a vestige of past inequality. (Author/EB)

The purpose of the model is to select either Spanish or English as the language to be used; its goals at this stage of development include modeling code-switching for lexical need, apparently random code-switching, dependency of code-switching upon sociolinguistic context, and code-switching within syntactic constraints. (EJS)

Discusses redundancy in language and proposes an operational definition which could be used in studying the effects of redundancy on communication between writer and reader. (MKM)

A computer program which generates descriptions of conversational patterns of dyads based on sound-silence data is described. Input consists of talk/no-talk designations; output consists of descriptive matrices, histograms, and individual talk parameters. (Author/JKS)

Encourages professionals in education to cease coining and misusing educational jargon. (DD)

Two explanations for the role of "se" in such constructions as "Se construyen casas" are given by grammarians; one states that it is a passive interpretation ("Houses are built"), the other advocates an impersonal interpretation ("One builds houses"). Different views are presented and analyzed. (Author/NCR)

Describes a technique for getting students acquainted which involves having them coin words based on each other's first names. (DD)

Fundamental functional differences between preverbal and postverbal locatives in Mandarin Chinese are explored. The syntactic behaviors of the verbs are discussed in the context of compatibilities with locatives containing the element "zai." (Author/SW)

Over three quarters of the Dolch basic words may be taught by a word family approach. (MKM)

The article asserts that case-endings in conversational Latin were consciously learned by children in Roman times, and that the endings were so necessary for comprehension that ancient architects constructed theaters with outstanding acoustics. (SW)

Studies the English-speaking and French-speaking populations of the Gaspe, focusing on socioeconomic status, mother tongue retention and bilingualism rates. This is followed by a detailed study of a small, linguistically mixed community in Gaspe East, reconstructing the community as it was in 1925 and describing it as it was in 1970. (Author/RM)