Cites examples of surprise combinations of words that give sudden pleasure to a listener or reader.

Relates how nursery rhymes have the enduring power to amuse and comfort both adult and child audiences. (HOD)

The author rejects the point of view that says that the development of prose rhythm is "largely a question of sensitiveness and of experience." Prose rhythm is analyzed, to provide objectives for a unit of instruction. (RM)

This study explores interrelationships among ratings by conversational partners and independent observers of empathy, warmth, and genuineness, and relates these ratings to partners' dialogue patterns. The results support the hypothesis that one of the parameters of temporal congruence, switching pauses, relates significantly to ratings of warmth…

Abbreviated version of this paper was read under the title Nuclear Accent and Intonation Rules of English'' at the 1970 summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, in Columbus, Ohio, and an interim version appeared in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics'' (1971). (VM)

Discusses the preperation necessary for children's poetic expression of creativity, the teachers role and the process by which the children can be aided to write poetry. (RB)

Paper read at the Congress for the Oral Education of the Deaf, Northampton, England, in June 1967. (DS)

Revised version of lectures given at the University of Maryland, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Illinois. Bibliography included. (VM)

It is frequently observed that modern English has a fixed word order. Therefore, the English speaker is locked inside a syntactic system which leaves him few expressional options. The author disagrees and suggests that because of options of word order, the English speaker can impose his own level of meaning on his utterances. (Author/RR)

Details a study that explored whether a visual syllable duration pattern affected comprehension and whether the fluency effect could be obtained when accuracy of word pronunciation and rate of reading were used as criteria for fluency. (HOD)

Examines the elements of poetry that contribute to making a piece of writing a poem--sound values, rhythm, form, meaning--in an attempt to show teachers the larger view of poetry instruction, one that avoids the errors of the analytical approach and takes into consideration a total experience of poetry. (RL)