PROBLEMS DEALING WITH LEVELS OF SPEECH AND LEVELS OF ANALYSIS IN CONNECTION WITH MODERN GREEK LEXICOGRAPHICAL STUDY WERE DISCUSSED. CONCERNING THE POSSIBLE CONSTRUCTION OF A COMPETENT BILINGUAL DICTIONARY, THE INVESTIGATORS SUGGESTED THAT THE VARIOUS STRUCTURES (NAMELY, PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, AND SYNTAX) BE TIED TOGETHER TO INVOLVE (1) LISTING IN…

THIS PAPER IS THE THIRD PART OF A THREE-PART ARTICLE DEALING WITH CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF GANDA. THE SPECIFIC CONCERNS OF THIS PART ARE QUALIFICATIVES (ADJECTIVES, ENUMERATIVES, QUANTITATIVES, AND POSSESSIVES) AND VERBAL RADICALS AND AFFIXES. LISTS ARE PROVIDED IN ENGLISH AND GANDA, DESCRIBING EXAMPLES PERTAINING TO EACH…

FIRST AND FOURTH GRADERS AND ADULTS WERE PRESENTED ORALLY WITH A LIST OF PAIRS OF SYNTHETIC PLURAL NOUNS DIFFERING ONLY IN THEIR FINAL CONSONANTS (E.G., NARP/NARV) AND ASKED TO JUDGE WHICH MEMBER OF THE PAIR WOULD BE A BETTER PLURAL. FIFTH GRADERS MADE SIMILAR JUDGMENTS CONCERNING PAIRS OF PAST-TENSE VERBS. MOST OF THE SOUNDS PREFERRED BY THE…

This paper accepts Labov's (1973) criticisms of the categorial approach, i.e., the view that linguistic units are categories which are discrete, invariant, qualitatively distinct, conjunctively defined, and composed of atomic primes, and follows Labov in attempting to develop a non-categorial (or fuzzy-categorial) approach to lexical semantics,…

A child acquiring a language must learn to correctly match the phenomena of the realworld which he perceives with the lexical items and the segregates and perhaps some of the grammatical categories of the language to be learned. He must correlatively learn the organization in meaning of and among these last named elements, that is, the internal…

An algorithm for generating a structural syntactic surrogate of English text is defined in this paper. The "performance" of the surrogate is judged empirically according to adherence to the following criteria: (1) The surrogate is an organized representation of natural language text; (2) The algorithm which produces the surrogate is…

THE MATERIALS IN THIS REPORT WERE COMPILED FOR USE AS INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS IN A TWO-SEMESTER COURSE IN ELEMENTARY HINDI, THE PRIMARY LANGUAGE OF INDIA. THE COMPILATION IS PRESENTED IN PRELIMINARY FORM AS ITS PRACTICAL USEFULNESS IN A CLASSROOM SITUATION WAS UNKNOWN AT THE TIME OF REPORTING. MATERIALS INCLUDE (1) CONVERSATIONAL UNITS ADAPTED FROM…

The syntax of lexical units, or signs, of American Sign Language (ASL) is analyzed. Previous areas of study concerning pauses, functional sentence perspective, theme and rheme, and topic and comment are discussed. A model is offered to depict topic-comment relationships in ASL using space, vectors, and relationship rules. (SW)

This study reports intraindividual variations in the semantic and syntactic complexity of language and in the linguistic errors produced by mildly and moderately impaired adult aphasic subjects (N=10) in different communication contexts. Aphasic patients exhibited at least as many linguistic variations as controls in response to changing…

Examines the acquisition of a typologically marked construction, preposition stranding, and its unmarked counterpart, preposition pied piping, by learners of English as a second language (ESL). Data demonstrate that preposition stranding is acquired before preposition pied piping. (Author/CB)

Discusses using redundancy in language as a means of facilitating second-language learning. (EKN)

A study was made investigating whether or not the two-person conversational speech behavior (mean duration of utterance, mean reaction time, latency and frequency of interruption) of an individual who is fluent in two languages is the same or different when he is conversing in each of these two languages. (Author/RM)

A source-based approach to teaching vocabulary means starting with basic concepts that have been in human languages since their beginnings and then working with lexical and metaphorical extensions of these basic words. The purpose is not so much to teach children history, as it is to find groups of words. When words are taught in related groups,…

This study investigated how Japanese telephone closings were realized between intimates with regard to pre-closing, terminal exchange, and leave-taking. Participants were native speakers of Japanese living in the United States who were calling other native Japanese speakers overseas. Researchers audiotaped the international telephone calls.…

Revised version of paper presented at the Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Vancouver, B.C., June 1973. (DD)