Research supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. (DS)

Research supported by fellowships from the Canada Council and the National Service Foundation. (DS)

Collitz lecture delivered at the meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Columbus, Ohio, July 1970. (DS)

A computer program designed to compare factors from similar concept matrices (person by scale) obtained at different times is presented. (PR)

In a recent study, Levine concluded that there was a lack of support for the concept of constricted versus flexible cognitive control. It is suggested that this conclusion is misleading in view of issues concerning the logic of the derived predictions and the statistical power of the study. (Author)

Demonstrates that "contractions and their related uncontracted counterparts may have different derivational histories, different semantic contents and different syntactic functions" and discusses the implications of these findings for the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. Revised version of a paper presented at the…

Assumptions upon which to base the philosophy and plans for creative college are presented. (DB)

Study resulting in the conclusion that the semantic relationships between words in the bilingual's languages influence tasks involving secondary memory, whereas no interlingual interference occurs in a second learning situation depending mostly upon primary memory. (Author/FWB)

The question of how to account for the growth of vocabulary knowledge that occurs during the elementary school years is addressed. Areas examined include the ways that word meanings are communicated, direct teaching of meanings, vocabulary instruction as part of reading instruction, and deriving and learning word meanings from verbal context.…