The paper reviews issues in the diagnosis and treatment of language disorders in black exceptional children. The controversy over language characteristics of the urban black child is examined, followed by a review of studies citing the linguistic and cultural bias of many tests used for diagnosis. Difficulties with the use of the System of…

The article reviews the linguistic situation in Taiwan, discussing the use of Mandarin Chinese as a means to improve interethnic relations between the various populations inhabiting the island. The situation is looked at from a sociolinguistic point of view and the historical background is reviewed. Available from Humanities Press, Inc., Atlantic…

This analysis encompasses graphemic, phonological, lexical and syntactic variations of Chicano Spanish from standard Spanish and the functions of the vernacular within the speech community. (RM)

A synonymicon is a philological work in which words that are semantically related are lined, the last word of each series giving a description of the whole set. This article discusses the history and structure of several Chinese synonymicons. The commentaries written for one, the Erh-ya, are described. (CLK)

Discusses the use of the Spanish suffix "-al" in six Central American countries, derived from both Spanish and native languages, and Spanish.) (CK)

Discusses the borrowing of French words in German. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Presents a review of the literature on the relationship between black English and reading problems. (RB)

In order to help explain language variation and promote an understanding of spatial networks and diffusion patterns, data from the records of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) are analyzed with respect to geolinguistics. The data include all recorded instances of words with morpheme-final consonant clusters for all 75 interviews with older…

Developed as part of a multicultural research project conducted in the San Diego Community College District, this booklet presents the findings of an eight-member research team about various elements of Black American culture and history. The booklet begins with a brief history of Black Americans from the time of the arrival of the first slaves to…

THE DIALECT UPON WHICH THIS CHRESTOMATHY IS BASED IS THE NORTHERN (SOSVA) DIALECT, SPOKEN BY THE MAJORITY OF THE VOGUL PEOPLE IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF SIBERIA. THE TEXTS, WHICH FURNISH A BASIS FOR THE GRAMMAR AND SOUND SYSTEM OF THIS BOOK, ARE TAKEN FROM TRANSCRIPTIONS OF MATERIAL RECORDED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1957-58. A DESCRIPTION OF THE VOWELS,…

THIS STUDY OF THE CANTONESE PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM IS A CASE STUDY OF THE PHONOLOGICAL COMPONENT OF A GENERATIVE GRAMMAR. ATTEMPTS ARE MADE IN CHAPTER III TO SOLVE SOME OLD PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH THE ANALYSIS OF CANTONESE WITHIN THIS NEW THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK. MOST OF THE PROBLEMS ARE PSEUDO-PROBLEMS, IN THE SENSE THAT THEY POSE DIFFICULTIES ONLY…

THE CAKAVIAN GROUP OF SERBO-CROATIAN DIALECTS CAN BE RECLASSIFIED USING SYNCHRONIC CRITERIA RATHER THAN TRADITIONALLY USED DIACHRONIC CRITERIA. THE APPROACH IS TYPOLOGICAL RATHER THAN GENETIC AND COMPARES THE NOMINAL MORPHOLOGICAL AND MORPHOPHONEMIC SYSTEMS OF SEVEN DIALECTS SELECTED TO PROVIDE A GEOGRAPHICAL SAMPLING OF THE CAKAVIAN GROUP.…