This paper defines diglossia as "a situation in which two closely related language systems enjoy differing social status, one being the 'high' and the other the 'low' language," and then attempts to show how a study of diglossia in Canada, where such a diglossic situation is seen to exist among varieties of French, might be carried out.…

Simplification in structure and confluence between the local-language structure and the prestige-language structure are usually predicted in language death as in pidginization. For a dying Scottish Gaelic dialect, speakers were tested in the two most excessively complex morphological structures the dialect offers. (Author/NCR)

German-speaking Switzerland has no single national dialect, artificial or otherwise--only many local dialects. Only standard German is written (and read); the various Schweizerdeutsch dialects are spoken. Even on radio and television the dialects are sometimes used, especially those of the larger speech communities. (Text is in German.) (WGA)

A brief description of the phonology and grammar of the Chinese language. In spite of the diversity in phonology, Chinese dialects are held together as members of the same language by the bond of a common grammar. A systematic description of all of Chinese grammar is still needed. (AMH)

Employs a form-content theory to analyze usage of clitics in Spanish. A questionnaire (in Appendix) compares responses by English-dominant subjects to those of Spanish-dominant subjects. Results are compared with spontaneous production of clitics in the context of free conversations with 67 informants from the Caribbean area. (Author/LMO)

A review of literature and research of some linguistic theories illustrates how gender neutralization in absolute numbers in Hebrew and Lebanese Arabic can more appropriately be accounted for by the rhythmic characteristics of the numeral set as recited in sequence. (CB)

Teachers can encourage literacy best by understanding and respecting black dialect, and by helping youngsters translate their many different experiences into standard English. (Author)

Two functional dialects possessed by the same person must function concurrently in the education of the disadvantaged. The problems involved are discussed. (Editor)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''; revised version of a paper presented at the 1957 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. (DD)

Maintains that the concept of verbal deprivation'' constituting an integral part of the operating assumption of Sesame Street'' has been thoroughly refuted by reputed liguists; that nonstandard'' English is not an inept, deficient approximation of American English but a separate, logical, and highly structured system of communication. (RJ)