The study sought to isolate and identify patterns occurring in language interactions between mothers and their nonhandicapped and Down Syndrome children. Data were collected as part of a 3-year study of language interaction. Twenty nonhandicapped (NH) and 20 Down Syndrome (DS) children and their mothers were evaluated via a demographic inventory,…

Two facts need to be recognized before the problem of Aboriginal Nonstandard English can be resolved: Aboriginal Nonstandard English has failed to respond to conventional remedial techniques and some incentive must be relevant to Aboriginal Nonstandard English speakers before their learning the standard dialect is relieved of being a pointless…

Discusses the use of split infinitives in written language and suggests a compromise rule. (RB)

Examines the role of the computer in present and future scholarship in the humanities. (RB)

This volume opens with an examination of the decay that the English language has suffered over the past century and explains the origin and remedy of its two chief menaces: ambiguity and cacophony. The second part of the book illustrates the manner in which speakers and writers misuse language. Chapters include "The Prodigal…

V-Te-I and V-Te-Ar are Japanese verb forms used to express "overlapping," or the relationships of expressions in time. In English these have the form Be-V-Ing. Progressive, concomitant, and stative overlapping are discussed with references to their meanings and to the type of verb each takes. (SC)

Percentages of unexpected pronominal usage in Japanese are listed. Data was gathered from Japanese magazine articles concerning individuals. Tendencies rather than strict rules became evident. (SC)

The form of the print poetic line is partially determined by the expectations of the potential readers since authors, as participants in the common literary heritage of their culture, make use of the common expectations of that literary heritage. As a test of this hypothesis, one poem by James Dickey and one by Ted Olson were printed as prose, and…

WHILE EVERY OTHER ASPECT OF LANGUAGE TEACHING IS TODAY SUBORDINATE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPEAKING, PROBLEMS WILL DEVELOP UNLESS THERE IS AN ESSENTIAL REWORKING OF METHODOLOGY AND AN ESTABLISHMENT OF A SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE ORAL FACILITY. CONSCIOUSNESS OF GRAMMATICAL PHENOMENA IS INDISPENSABLE FOR RAPID MASTERY OF SPOKEN RUSSIAN. THE…

TWO MODELS OF DESCRIPTION, GENERATIVE AND NONGENERATIVE, ARE APPLIED TO THE PHONOLOGY OF ITALIAN TO DETERMINE WHICH OF THE TWO OFFERS A SIMPLER YET MORE COMPREHENSIVE STATEMENT. THE NONGENERATIVE MODEL IS GIVEN IN A LISTING OF PHONEMES AND A BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE PHONOTACTICS AND ALLOPHONICS. THE GENERATIVE MODEL STATES THE FACTS IN 11 REWRITE…

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…