Describes language as a vehicle of thought severely limited by auditory, kinesthetic, and visual images, restricted to linear succession, and precariously linked to meaning by standardized labels. (MB)

Version of a paper presented at the meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, San Francisco, California, December 30, 1969. (VM)

Reports two experiments: 1) an investigation of the extent to which 4-to 6-year-old children comprehend the logical connectives of conjunction, disjunction, and negation; and 2) an investigation of the role of idioms in children's understanding of sentential connectives. (Author/AJ)

Young children from economically impoverished families displayed deficient general intellectual and language abilities partly as a function of their specific racial or ethnic backgrounds. (WY)

Describes procedures used to study abilities of chimpanzees to be taught written language. Words, sentences, questions, metalinguistics, class concepts, the copula, some quantifiers and if-then logical connections are investigated. Success seems attributable largely to non-linguistic cues. (JM)

The author reviews a selection of books that can be used to enrich a child's language in order to influence his acquisition of reading and writing skills. (CD)

A paper presented at Anglo-American Seminar on Teaching English to the Linguistically Deprived (Walsall, England, June 1968). (Editor/RD)

Reviews results of previous studies and describes projected studies designed to suggest input variables related to reading and to provide further knowledge of phoneme-grapheme relationships in reading. Bibliography. (MD)