Research supported in part by a grant from the Public Health Research Center. (DS)

Bambara is the language spoken in the Bamako region, Republic of Mali. (DS)

Criticism of much of the previous research into the syntax of children's language. (RD)

"The purpose of this paper is to describe what appears to be a successful experiment in teaching levels of diction recently carried out in the freshman composition courses for EFL students at Southern Illinois University." (Author/FWB)

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)

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…

The effects of phonetic context and linguistic complexity level on /s/ misarticulations were examined in nine normal children (mean age 6.8 years) who misarticulated the /s/ phoneme interdentally in all positions of words. (Author/SEW)