Twelve pairs of three-year-olds and twelve pairs of five-year-olds were monitored in a play situation; their transcribed speech was examined for use of nominal reference, with attention to pronominalization and ellipsis. For the corpus of nominal references, there was a clear trend toward normal progression from specific indefinite to definite to…

This issue contains two feature items. The "SLANT Special Report on Current Research with Indochinese Refugees in the U.S." describes 14 research projects in progress. The article "Southwestern Applied Linguistics" by John W. Oller, Jr. and others presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in the southwestern United…

Although both literary study and discourse analysis examine texts and oral discourses, literary study tends to emphasize the totality of the text while discourse analysis seeks to isolate manageable elements and structures to validate hypotheses about mental processes. Interaction has recently occurred between the two disciplines in…

These two issues of the "SLANT" Newsletter for researchers in second language acquisition are highlighted by reports on research in progress in France. Also included are reports from the 1977 Los Angeles Second Language Research forum, including abstracts of presentations at the Forum. (JB)

This issue of the "SLANT" Newsletter for researchers in second language acquisitions is highlighted by reports of research in progress in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Germany. Also included are reports of various second language conferences, a list of upcoming conferences, and announcements of developments that are of…

THE 1926 BUCKINGHAM-DOLCH WORD STUDY WAS REPLICATED TO DETERMINE THE PRESENT-DAY VALIDITY OF THE 1926 BUCKINGHAM-DOLCH LIST. APPROXIMATELY 8,000 CHILDREN IN GRADES 2 THROUGH 6 FROM SIX SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN WILLAMETTE VALLEY, OREGON, WERE ASKED TO LIST ALL THE WORDS THEY COULD THINK OF WITHIN A 15-MINUTE PERIOD. RESPONSES WERE KEY PUNCHED ONTO DATA…

IN OCTOBER 1966 A SEMINAR WAS HELD IN BETHESDA, MARYLAND ON THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN LANGUAGE RESEARCH. THE ORGANIZERS OF THE CONFERENCE, THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, ATTEMPTED TO BRING TOGETHER EMINENT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MAJOR SCHOOLS OF CURRENT LINGUISTIC RESEARCH. THE PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE…

BECAUSE THE INTERFERENCE FROM HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE CAUSES A LINGUIST TO HEAR AND IDENTIFY THE SOUNDS OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN TERMS OF HIS OWN, THE AUTHOR HAS PROPOSED A PROCEDURE DESIGNED TO (1) MAKE THE TASK OF PHONEMICIZING A LANGUAGE SHORT AND OBJECTIVE, (2) EQUATE THE PHONEMES OF A LANGUAGE WITH THE PERCEPTION OF THE USERS OF THAT LANGUAGE,…

SPONSORED BY THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE, THE INSTITUTE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS OF STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY, AND AN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SPECIALISTS MEETING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NANCY, L'ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE LINGUISTIQUE APPLIQUEE (L'AILA) WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1964. ITS PRINCIPAL AIMS ARE (1) COORDINATING RESEARCH, INFORMATION, AND ACADEMIC…

PROJECTS CONDUCTED IN A SAMPLING OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS HAVE PROVIDED A POSITIVE ANSWER TO THE CONCERNS OF MANY COMMUNITIES OVER THE VALUE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS (FLES). THE RESEARCH PROVED THAT (1) EVEN THOUGH TIME HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM OTHER SUBJECTS, AVERAGE FLES PUPILS GENERALLY PERFORMED AS WELL AS OR BETTER THAN…

THE DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY SPEAKERS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH IN ATTEMPTING TO MASTER THE PRONUNCIATION OF EGYPTIAN ARABIC WERE ANALYZED DURING THE REPORTED RESEARCH. THE LANGUAGE UNDER CONSIDERATION WAS THE URBAN COLLOQUIAL ARABIC OF THE EGYPTIAN DELTA. THIS STUDY DEALT WITH THE SEGMENTAL PHONEMES ONLY, WITH SOME REFERENCE TO STRESS AND…

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…

The speech of three girls aged 17 to 19 months was recorded in three at-home sessions. Patterns of single-word and multiple-word utterances were different for each of the three girls. This difference seems to support the notion that the most interaction-oriented child has, at least in terms of the word classes upon which she bases her…

Children with a mean age of 2;10 were presented with three tasks designed to evaluate their concept of front-back orientation. Two of the tasks were non-linguistic (a parade task and a canonical encounter task, involving nine toy objects). A third linguistic task assessed the child's knowledge of "front" and "back" by asking him/her to point to…

Seven children aged 21 to 33 months were taped while they interacted with adults. Transcripts of each session were examined for utterances containing "and,""because,""but,""then," and "so.""And" was the first conjunction produced by all children, followed by "because.""So" was the last conjunction produced, and was used to mean both "in order…