Research supported by grants from the United States National Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. (DD)

Koine is a linguistic form that combines the features of several related dialects and eventually emerges as both an indigenous and an official language. (DD)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Reviewed research on the effect of speech errors or dialect on children's spelling errors. Concluded evidence did not indicate clear relationship between speech and spelling. Speech therapy or dialect therapy not recommended as spelling technique. (ST)

Suggests intelligence tests are culture bound and as such miss many abilities particularly those of minority groups. (ST)

Based on work done in 1972 which was supported by a Canada Council Research Grant. (DD)

Revised version of a paper presented at the 1970 summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Columbus, Ohio. Research leading to the paper supported in part by a National Science Foundation grant to the Phonology Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. (VM)

Special issue on Black Dialect: Historical and Descriptive Issues'' edited by William A. Stewart. (RS)

Earlier version of this article read at the Conference on Continuities and Discontinuities in Afro-American Societies and Cultures, Mona, Jamaica, April 2-4, 1970. Special issue on Black Dialect: Historical and Descriptive Issues'' edited by William A. Stewart. (RS)

Project was a part of a Teacher Corps assistance program carried out by the Center for Communication Research at the University of Texas, Austin. (VM)

Article supported in part by a grant from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (VM)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Chicago, February 1968. Appears in "The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue, "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education. (FWB)