The effective conductor accompanies word reduction with precision of statement. Author offered practical advice for any director who needs to watch his or her language more closely. He described evaluative, informative, remediative, and perfective phases of rehearsal language, and the initial, medial, and terminal stages of each phase. (Editor/RK)

Deals with selected aspects of traditional Amhara verbal behavior from an ethnographic point of view. (CLK)

Presents several rules for conversational interpretation of indirect responses to questions. (MH)

Discusses the use of the two past tenses in French, specifically in literature and news reporting. (AM)

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)

Explains the attitude of Indians to kinship term usage, particularly in referring to one's spouse. (AM)

Studies the relationship between Chinese culture and the use of homonyms and their avoidance in Chinese. (Author/AM)

Demonstrates through an examination of naturally occurring discourse that Wh-Clefts and It-Clefts are not interchangeable; they have highly specialized distributions and functions. (EJS)

Proposes description of Latin syntactic structures through an analysis of their communicative functions. (AM)

Contends that the rule "do not split infinitives" is a proper subset of the rule "do not split verbs," and that both should be taught. (DD)

Analyzes the kinds of simplified Chinese characters currently in unofficial use, collected from personal correspondence and published discussions. (KM)

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)

A defense of the grammatical correctness of the sentence, "Let us go then, you and I." (DD)