The effects of reading to children on the development and production of certain morphological structures are examined in a sample of 20 children, two to seven years old, in matched experimental and control groups. Both groups were pre- and posttested with an adapted form of Berko's nonsense-word test. The experimental group was individually read a…

Drama and movement bring delight, happiness, increased learning into every aspect of the English program. (JH)

Investigates the principles underlying the perception of vowel stimuli. The results support Chistovich's claim. When judging the distance between synthetic vowel stimuli, speakers refer to the phonemic structure of their native language. They determine the phonemes closest to the stimuli and then compare the phonemes and not the stimuli…

This article proposes a new analysis of illocutionary force, in terms of discourse practices, and specifically analyzes the act of reproaching. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

This article discusses the nature of the syntactic-autonomy in French, that is, the absence of a correlation between the position of an element in a sequence of discourse and its relative function. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Two experiments are reported in which subjects performed simple mental arithmetic problems which were presented visually in a sequential fashion. At some point in the presentation of each problem, the sequential display was interrupted and a memory task introduced. The purpose was to validate a measure of transient memory load. (Author/RM)

Data obtained from seventh graders does not support Chomsky's hierarchy of language rules, whereby degrees of sentence grammaticality can be assigned to ungrammatical sentences. (RB)

This article is concerned with the possible existence of a verbal anatomical representation comparable to that deriving from neural relationships concerned with somatic functions on the sensorimotor cortex of the brain, as seen in linguistic evidence available from Melanesian languages. (CLK)

Proposes research that analyzes differences in the linguistic behavior of individuals and groups, within the context of three conversational situations, in order to determine whether these differences can be ascribed to sociocultural differences. (AM)

Intends to demonstrate the value of statistical analysis in linguistic inquiry through a specific problem, mainly the distribution of and the correlation between the perfect and imperfect subjunctive in Latin. (AM)

Examines the relationship of phonological characteristics of children's imitative utterances to the characteristics of spontaneous utterances in early stage I. The findings indicated that, while these imitative utterances were subject to the same production constraints, they were not subject to the same selection and avoidance rules operative in…

Reports on a study of voiced onset time in initial voiced stops in various vocalic contexts. (Author/AM)

Attempts "to look through the microscope" to try to understand how consciousness--or mind--comes into existence. And with mind, how language, the notion of truth, logic, mathematics and the sciences have come into the world. (Author/RK)

Data in this study showed significant linguistic differences between six- and seven-year-olds and a leveling-off between the seven- and eight-year-olds. (DD)