A STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO THE COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE WAS PRESENTED IN THIS RESEARCH ON THE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF THE PAPAGO INDIANS OF ARIZONA. IN THIS STUDY, THE COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF A LANGUAGE WERE CALLED "THEMES OF THE LANGUAGE" AND THE COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF NONVERBAL CULTURE WERE CALLED "THEMES OF THE CULTURE."…

A sample of 90 children drawn from kindergarten, second grade, and fourth grade participated in a study of ability to decode ambiguous and unambiguous verbal messages. Subjects were read 12 message stems, each followed by a question pertaining to the contents of the stem. For half of the messages, the meaning of the questions was unambiguous; for…

This study outlines some considerations for an economic model of the scientific journal market. The model provides an explanation of journal market structure and the dynamics of market behavior, as well as a description of journal market development. Three types of periodicals are discussed: (1) primary, archival journals serving a current…

This paper reports a study carried out with 14 children (ranging in age from 2.8 to 3.5 years) which investigated children's concepts of difference. Pairs of small objects differing on a number of dimensions were presented to the children. As each pair of objects was presented, children were asked to select the object that was…

An exploratory study of quantitative measurement of syntactic and rhetorical fluency examined students' writing near the beginning and near the end of a two-quarter, freshman English program. The syntactic analysis focused on the clause, which was classified according to basic syntactic type and elaborating syntactic structures. The rhetorical…

Limitations of the traditional epistemological orientation toward an "objective paradigm" are discussed, and an alternative "subjective paradigm" is proposed which holds that knowledge is synthesized by the knower, pursuant to his or her own motives. Implications of this view are drawn for the study of language, including…

This 484-item bibliography is a revised and expanded version of William W. Gage's "Contrastive Studies in Linguistics: A Bibliographical Checklist" (CAL, 1961). Following a general section, the entries are arranged alphabetically by foreign language. The language headings are: Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bantu, Batak, Bengali,…

Discussed in the monograph are procedures and conclusions of Dr. Catherine Garvey's research on the social speech of 48 preschool children. It is explained that each S was observed and videotaped while in a playroom with two other children. Findings are cited for the following areas of study (with sample conclusions in parentheses): social…

No language acquisition theory has yet proved to be the correct one.

This article compares English and Russian studies of the use of psychometric methods in linguistic research, and presents the results of recent research. (CLK)

This paper is concerned with four Scandinavian prosodemes: accent 1, accent 2, stoed, and no stoed. The aim is to establish the function of each of them, i.e., the role they play in the system of each Scandinavian language. Available from Liber Laeromedel, Box 1205, S-22105 Lund, Sweden. (Author/TL)

Tested a hypothesized relationship between rules of sentence transformation and preresponse processing time in a short-term memory and transformation task. Data showed that the amount of processing required by different grammatical transformations does not relate to the theoretical derivation. Available from Plenum Publishing Corp., 227 W. 17th…

In analyzing utterances whose singular property is to become true simply by being uttered, this article discusses the theory of explicit performatives and proposes an alternative explanation which focuses on meaning rather than on the fact of these utterances are speech acts. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

This article discusses the concept of the archiphoneme and specifically defends the notion of neutralization. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

This article concentrates on the syntagmatic element involved in using and understanding various signalling systems. (Text is in French.) (CLK)