Examines language frontier and transitional zones along the Belgium-northwestern France linguistic border as area occupying important position in linguistic contact research. Gives examples of variant forms in the morphosyntactic, semantic, stylistic, and lexical forms. (Author/BK)

The value of teaching children to look objectively at language as they make the transition from reality-bound sentences to linguistically correct sentences is examined. (HTH)

In view of the call by reformers and critics for a new definition of education itself, the author investigates some of the difficulties in formulating such a definition by utilizing the study of language as well as linguistics, semantics, and etymology. (Author/SJL)

Describes a study which examined learning disabled children's understanding of conversational rules for initiating repair of a communication breakdown. Results show learning disabled children were less likely to request clarification of inadequate messages and made fewer correct referent choices than normal children, but analyses suggest this…

Lists terms from current sociopolitical language, continuing from an earlier issue of "Yelmo" and covering the second half of the alphabet, "J" to "X". Provides definitions and context quotations for all items, and in some cases, notes on their historical origin. Includes borrowings from English and from some regional…

Analyzes the uses of "quien" as an interrogative and a relative pronoun with numerous examples from standard spoken Spanish. Emphasizes syntactic and contextual factors, as well as stylistic variations, and explains the contrast between "quien" and "que" as subjects of a relative clause. (MES)

The authors review research on attempts to promote speech acquisition in severely handicapped students. Studies on verbal imitation, syntactic forms, and semantics are summarized. Implications for instruction are noted, including careful selection of responses likely to occur in the child's normal environment and which have intrinsic reinforcing…

Two experiments studied how people determine relationships among family members. In one experiment, subjects were to determine relationships in hypothetical families. In the second, the families were in the subjects' experience. It was determined that memory was organized in terms of parent-child relations together with knowledge of which members…

Discusses lexicographic theory, various problems and models behind dictionary construction, and the role of the "cultural dictionary." (AM)

Examines the relationship among dictionaries, language, discourse, and ideology. The nature of the definition and the object of the dictionary's description are discussed. (AM)

Examines the claim that transformational rules are psychologically real, and applies this claim to all aspects of transformational grammar. (AM)

Presents a linguistically-based text-analysis of S. Sassoon's antiwar poem "Lamentations," first analyzing the semantic characteristics, and following with thoughts on the intention of the fictional speaker and of the author, including particularly the ironic language. Some data on the author's life are given and interpreted. (IFS/WGA)

Speakers of languages having only one verb "to know" (e.g., Japanese) have difficulty with the two verbs "wissen" and "kennen". Tables are given showing sentence types and degrees of frequency. Various linguistic aspects are considered. Three dictionaries are cited and the inadequacy of their definitions are pointed out. (IFS/WGA)

Outlines four general categories of current communications study, examines the focus of Alfred Korzybski's work in general semantics, and discusses the theories of Kenneth Burke and of Hugh D. Duncan, in whose work the symbolic interactionist position is said to be most cogently pulled together. (GT)

Expands on Clark's (1974) hypothesis regarding non-literal uses of the English verbs of motion "come" and "go," by positing the notions of marked and unmarked relative states, and comparative deixis, in Thai verbs of motion. (AM)