Special issue on French dialects. (RL)

Discusses the use of Tirilongo,'' an informal code of Southwest Spanish in the Ysleta area of El Paso, Texas. (DS)

Shortened version of this paper was presented in New York, N.Y., March 14, 1970, at the Fifteenth Annual National Conference on Linguistics sponsored by The International Linguistic Association. (RS)

Asserting that all dialect variation is accountable for in terms of social factors, this article strongly critizes the methods, assumptions and conclusions of geography-oriented dialectology. (FB)

Analyzes various apparently synonymous words for "friend" (e.g., "homes,""bro") as they are used by one former gang-member to persuade two current gang-members to stop "gangbanging." The article's analysis shows how the meanings of these disparate reference terms are made and remade through talk as…

Discusses the close relationship between historical linguistics and dialectology, pointing out, through analysis and reconstruction of Taiwanese dialects, that the tasks of dialectologists do not stop at the making of linguistic atlases and must go beyond those tasks to reconstruct the proto-forms. (two references) (Author/CB)

Illustrates substrate reinforcement in the development of three current dialects of Melanesian Pidgin. Evidence of earlier variability is presented and the sociolinguistic conditions that later led to greater stability are described. Grammatical features that differentiate the dialects are examined. For each feature, it is shown that at least two…

A fundamental concept of generative phonology stating that related morphemes have unique phonological representations is criticized. It is argued that more morphologization of phonological rules is needed to explain morphophonemic changes. (Available from North-Holland Publishing Co., P. O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.) (CHK)

This experiment tested the effects of racial group membership, race of experimenter, and dialect on recall in 4-year-olds. The findings indicated that whites outperformed blacks in standard English, blacks outperformed whites in black vernacular, and both performed better in their own vernacular. (JMB)

A test of linguistic attitudes toward varied dialect patterns. (CH)

This analysis concentrates on stokavic texts up to 1600, and attempts to explain the transposition of pronominal and verbal enclitics in this dialect. (CK)

THE INTRODUCTION TO THIS WORK ON THE OSTYAK LANGUAGE GIVES A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF ITS SPEAKERS, THE OSTYAKS (KHANTI), WHO LIVE IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF SIBERIA. A SHORT MENTION OF THE RESEARCH DONE AND AN EXTENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LINGUISTIC LITERATURE CONCERNING OSTYAK (A FINNO-UGRIC LANGUAGE), ARE ALSO INCLUDED IN THE INTRODUCTION. THE…

TESTS TO DETERMINE SPOKEN EQUIVALENTS OF ENGLISH CONCEPTS USED IN INTERVIEWS WITH FRANCO-AMERICANS OF FRENCH-CANADIAN DESCENT ARE PRESENTED. THEY INCLUDE A PRELIMINARY CLASSIFICATION TEST, A VOCABULARY TEST, AND A PHONETICS TEST. THE INTERVIEWS WERE DESIGNED TO ILLUSTRATE THE CHIEF FEATURES OF THE FRENCH SPOKEN BY NEW ENGLAND FRANCO-AMERICANS AND…

THIS PAPER ATTEMPTS TO ANALYZE THE SOCIAL CAUSES FOR THE DIFFERENTIAL RATE OF CHANGE IN LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR BETWEEN BRAHMINS AND NON-BRAHMINS. INDICATIONS ARE THAT (1) INDIAN SPEECH COMMUNITIES ARE CONSCIOUS OF CASTE DIALECTS, (2) LINGUISTIC FORMS DIFFUSE MORE RAPIDLY AMONG LOWER-STATUS GROUPS, (3) THE SPEECH OF LOWER-STATUS GROUPS DISPLAYS FORMS…