The spontaneous use of two deictic forms in the speech of Samoan children was examined. Recordings were made of four Samoan children interacting with their families at monthly intervals over a ten-month period. The children were approximately 2 years old at the start of the study. The speech elements examined were the particles signifying…

The form and function of conditional structures in the speech of English speaking children between the ages of 2;6 and 8 years were investigated. Two types of conditionals were distinguished: reality conditionals and unreality conditionals. Data were obtained from audiotapes of the subjects under naturalistic conditions. A five-stage acquisition…

Even a superficial review of the literature on cognition would suggest that philosophers of the past and psychologists of the present frequently were concerned with the same problems. For the past three centuries, psychologists and philosophers have relied upon the concept of cognition to describe complex human functions such as memory, thinking,…

The Bransfrod and Franks procedure of 1971 for studying the abstraction of linguistic ideas was employed in a sentence memory task but with a recall test substituted for the usual recognition test. (Editor)

An automatic classification technique has been developed, based on the character structure of words. (Author)

Author discussed dictionaries in the classroom and their value to students as well as teachers. (Author/RK)

Contrasts semantic differences between the direct and indirect discourse in French. (RL)

Suggests that understanding your semantic environment begins with recognizing you have no choice about being the center of your universe, that the feelings you have are the single most important part of your life, and that it is about your feelings that you speak, despite whatever else you may think you speak about. (TO)

The acquisition of verb meaning is discussed and compared with the acquisition of simple noun meaning. Evidence presented from three experiments with children and adults indicates that (1) verbal meanings are relatively slow to be acquired; (2) the acquisition of verb meaning involves the gradual addition of semantic components; and (3) verbs are…

The present experiment was designed to test two alternative hypotheses of the roles of input order and semantic structure in determining the effect of blocked presentation and the general facilitation of recall. (Author)

Calls "pro-words" those which refer to a preceding substantive. They are (1) pronouns, (2) pronominal adverbs - "dadurch,""hiermit,""wofur," etc., and (3) pro-adverbs - "dort,""dann," etc. Both (2) and (3) stand for combinations of preposition plus preceding substantive; (3) does this only semantically, while (2) marks the relation overtly. (Text…

Describes the role of the semantic therapist in correcting language distortions due to lack of specificity, inaccurate assumptions, and failure to ascribe accurately the characteristics of a person. (RB)

This paper argues that the jargon, or jabberwocky, prevalent in education from the universities on down, is the same kind of political lying found in government, and for the same purposes. (Editor)

Two approaches to translation, J. C. Catford's intuitive approach and Eugene Nida's analytic approach, are examined and criticized. A suggestion is made for testing translation validity. (SC)

This study reviews the long-standing issue regarding the role and function of diagnosis within the counseling process. The author argues that the irreconcilable positions taken by client-centered versus diagnostic counselors have been sustained largely by the failure to resolve definitional ambiguities. (Author/BW)