Explores the extent and accuracy of the subject's knowledge concerning his previous memory performance. (Author/RM)

A study was made investigating whether or not the two-person conversational speech behavior (mean duration of utterance, mean reaction time, latency and frequency of interruption) of an individual who is fluent in two languages is the same or different when he is conversing in each of these two languages. (Author/RM)

This article discusses three Spanish suffixes used in the formation of nouns and adjectives: -al, -dad, and -cion. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Discusses problems encountered in machine translation and solutions for dealing with Spanish words having more than one possible translation in German. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

It was hypothesized that Ss hearing sentences containing reported utterances would confuse these sentences with new sentences containing illocutionary forces or perlocutionary effects consistent with the original sentences. Predicted effects were found in recall for illocutionary forces and in recognition memory for perlocutionary effects.…

Speech conditions of emission can result in influences on the speaker, leading to dramatic changes in the speaker's speech production. However, most studies performed on the "speaking styles" restrict their observations to very contrasted situations and compare so-called "spontaneous" speech to the "laboratory"…

This paper reports an exploratory study of the words used by U.S. presidents in inaugural speeches. Language signifying inclusive relationships as in the words "we,""us," and "our," was found to have changed dramatically since the first inaugural in 1789. Study implications suggest that elected leaders and managers in…

Like many other languages, Hualapai employs the reflexive suffix for several different grammatical purposes. Unlike those languages, however, constructions with a reflexive marker in Hualapai are usually not ambiguous with respect to the expected meanings. This paper identifies four functions that the reflexive suffix may have: reflexive,…

First part of a continued article. (SK)

Focuses on linguistic interference patterns which impede the progress of Italians learning English as a second language in Canada. (RL)

Results indicate that increasing sentence length decreased recall and that objects were recalled more easily than verbs. (RB)