Presents research findings on sexist uses of language in dictionaries. (RB)

Reports on the results of an international language planning project. (PM)

Individual differences in dichotic fusion experiments could be based on a number of different principles. The current working hypothesis suggests that the phenomenon reflects a language-binding effect; language-bound (LB) individuals perceive and remember events in language terms while language-optional (LO) individuals can use language structures…

In order to investigate the nature of metaphoric generation, comprehension, and appreciation, 8 different groups of 16 subjects were asked to rate each of 20 terms within each of 8 categories (United States historical figures, modern world leaders, mammals, birds, fish, airplanes, land vehicles, and ships) on 21 scales such as "warlike…

This paper, a small part of a larger project which explores the effects of linguistic insecurity on language production, discusses the negative attitudes toward language of some of the present-day "language elite"--those who take pleasure in or earn their livelihood by "Correcting every body else." Linguistic insecurity is, then, the feeling that…

The pervasiveness of sexism in our society is reflected in language structure and usage. In pronominal usage, masculine singular forms are assumed to include the feminine, although, when referring to female sex-role-typed occupations, "she" is used. In this research, the effect of the instructor's use of "she," as the generic singular, on student…

Over 2000 samples of the writing of eleven to eighteen year olds were analyzed as part of an attempt to formulate and validate a system for categorizing student writing. The system that resulted has two dimensions: the function served by the piece of writing and the audience to which it is addressed. Significant associations were found between the…

This paper discusses the effects of personal response on both the research and the teaching of language and literature. Two studies are presented which show how personal response affects interpretive judgment. In addition, a study of classroom responses to literature is compared to a study of language, indicating that personal motivations preface…

A semantic feature analysis was used with native speakers of different language families to test the universality of certain aspects of sentence interpretation. (Author/AM)

In discussing some of the contradictions and dilemmas of bilingual education in American schools, this article shows the preponderant influence of social and political factors outside of the schools. (Editor)

The goal of this article is to give a survey of the literature and theoretical trends relevant to language acquisition. Developments in the fields of psychology, psycholinguistics, sociology, sociolinguistics and in various interdisciplinary studies are discussed. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Summarizes author's work in developing a transformational-generative grammar which can account for concurrent production of two or several languages. (DH)