Adaptation of an address given on March 29, 1971 at the opening of the Twenty-fourth Annual Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado. (Editor)

Usage of the conjunctions sino" and pero" ( but") are discussed from the English speaking students' point of view. General criteria for choice involve sentence structure and semantics. (DS)

Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, December 29, 1968, in New York, New York. (DS)

Results support the hypothesized relationship between meaning and phobia. Semantic desensitization techniques based on counter conditioning of meaning were significantly effective in altering the semantic value of the word from unpleasantness to neutrality. (Author)

Correlation of a film to a work of literature helps students develop greater sensitivity to each, and a sharper awareness of the relationship between the two. (Author)

Suggests the need for a short non-obscene synonym for the act of sexual intercourse" in college English courses that include literary works in which the sex act is referred to. (Author/SW)

The psycholinguistic experiments reported here lead the author to the conclusion that there is a definite interdependence between semantic values and syntactic functions in the construction of sentences and that a satisfactory interpretation of syntactic encoding demands a consideration of the personality structure of the individual speaker.…

Critical examination of four prescriptive rules taken from current textbooks and reference works used in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. (FWB)