Four categories of statements are isolated in an attempt to analyze relationships between voice, tense and use of auxiliaries in French. The deep structure theory of generative grammar is questioned and a theory of semantic distinctions operating within the forms of a language is proposed. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A summary of problems in the study of structural complexity. Within the framework of a "morphology of utterances," the following topics are addressed: the criteria of intuition and common sense; the relationship of complexity of language and thought; and the possibility of a purely linguistic measure of complexity. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A study of linguistic theories as they apply to translation, which is understood as a translation of ideas, not of words. Topics covered are: lexical structure and polysemy; meaning; structure and polysemy; meaning and "related ideas"; structural linguistics; semantic fields and context. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

The results of this study show that children's recall of simple prose passages can be significantly affected by the structure of those passages and that the awareness of these effects increases with age. (Author/DEP)

Describes two experiments which demonstrated that readers use specific lexical information in comprehending sentences to anticipate and prepare for the appearance of lexical noun phrases and to postulate "gaps" that are associated with "fillers." Results also indicated that lexically based expectations involve the use of information about…

Evaluates an article published in Newsweek magazine called "Why Johnny Can't Write" and its appeal for a return to basic education. Attempts to show that the article is a prejudicial and misleading account of the problem. (Author/RK)

It has usually been psycholinguistics which has accommodated itself to alterations within linguistic formulations, but now there is a growing independence on the part of many psychologists in the study of language. The shift in emphasis is from competence to performance. (POP)

Expanded version of an article originally written under the auspices of the 1970 MSSB Advanced Research Seminar in Mathematical Linguistics and presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 23, 1970, Columbus, Ohio. (DD)

Research supported in part by grants from the U.S. Public Health Service and the University of California, Los Angeles. (DD)