Paper presented at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, on December 2, 1970. (DS)

Research supported by a grant from the Australian Research Grants Committee. (DS)

Reprints Thorndike's classic article which appeared in The Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. VIII, No. 6, June 1917, pp. 323-32. (VJ)

Supports the position that children learn superordinate elements later than subordinate ones. (WY)

A discussion of how the new rhetoric emphasizes the psychological reactions of the audience. (DS)

Explores the relation of attitudes toward individual words and attitudes toward simple sentences made up of those words. Prediction equations showed a high level of accuracy. Bibliography and tables. (JB)

The first "missing link is that between the linguist's rules and the rule component of performance; the second is between a student's competence as expressed in correct performance in the controlled language learning situation and spontaneous performance where selection of language is involved. (Author/FWB)

Demonstrates that proper reading comprehen sion in a foreign language involves more than the printed sequences of the text, and that meaning is not tied to one element in the sentence structure but to a wider context. (FWB)

Provides a synthesis of findings about lexical and syntactico-semantic differences between spoken and written language. Outlines and critically examines the major theoretical and methodological approaches used in comparative studies of spoken and written language and reexamines the question of how speech and writing relate to prototypical forms of…