Examines the manipulative strategies of 2- to 6-year-olds in terms of three structural principles--hierarchical complexity, interruption and role change--which are formally parallel to dimensions of language structure. Paper includes an extensive discussion of related studies. (JMB)

First part of a continued article. (SK)

The nature of the structure in museum information is explored, and some alternative techniques for maintaining this structure in computerized records are compared. One approach uses structural linguistic concepts to describe relationships in the information from which museum catalog data are extracted and expands these data to an appropriate host…

This paper is concerned with the metathesis of contiguous sibilants and stops. The paper is divided into the following parts: 1) a summary of several different descriptions of obstruent metathesis, 2) a list of examples illustrating the process, 3) discussion of experimental work on the perception of the clusters, and 4) concluding remarks noting…

Nine papers were presented at a workshop concerned with structure and process in cognition. The reports given at this conference represent detailed applications of these concepts to limited areas of experience. This work is unique in that both structure and process appear together, rather than being studied as independent concepts. All the papers…

A structural-functional basis for the construction of an English tense system is proposed. It is asserted that such a system will facilitate the teaching of English tense usage. (Author/RM)

Presents a model and experimental results of a new one-phase technique for compression text files that is a modification of the Ziv and Lempel compression scheme. The description includes the use of a subword dictionary that is periodically reorganized based on information theory and structural linguistics principles. (29 references) (Author/CLB)

Takes issue with Robert DiPietro's statement on the value of generative phonology for teaching second language pronunciation in Britannica Review of Foreign Language Education,'' v1. (RS)

Recent experiments in machine translation have given the semantic elements of collocation in Russian more objective criteria. Soviet linguists in search of semantic relationships have attempted to devise a semantic synthesis for construction of a basic language for machine translation. One such effort is summarized. (CHK)

Describes and examines the taxonomic linguistic system, a multi-level classification of language. Notes that this system not only formed the basis for all reading instruction, but also influenced reading research. Argues that this system should be replaced by one less simplistic and more realistic. (MM)

A discussion of possessives, determiners, and modifiers covers the following topics: nonuniformity of nouns, distributional differences between demonstratives and definitive articles, and German possessives and the determiner-modifier continuum. (Contains eight references.) (LB)