Discusses breakdowns and complications in communication due to faulty use or over-use of words, with specific reference to Spanish. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Paper presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Cleveland, Ohio, May 1972. (DD)

Research supported by a U.S. Public Health Service Research Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. (DD)

Research part of a Senior Honors Thesis submitted to Kent State University by Patricia Sorce, who was a National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Participant while conducting this research. (VM)

Research performed, in part, while the author was a research assistant at the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning; remainder conducted at the University of Texas under a National Science Foundation - USDP grant. (VM)

Based on the author's doctoral dissertation. Experiments supported by a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship and a National Institute of Mental Health grant; paper preparation supported by the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, through the U.S. Office of Education. (VM)

In this study the part of the sentence which constitutes what the speaker is talking about is called the topic" of the sentence, and the rest of the sentence is the comment", which provides new information about the topic. (Author/MB)

Syntactic analysis (kernel and matrix sentence frame types and transformational usage) of speech of fluent and disfluent preschool children revealed the fluent group using more double-base transformations and both groups comparable on the distribution of usage for sentence frame types. (Author/KW)

Examines whether a discourse consistent with functional sentence perspective (FSP) theory, which predicts how units of information should be distributed in a sentence and how sentences should be related in a discourse, is more memorable and readable than one contradictory to FSP. (HOD)

Investigates the functional nature of the communication process observed in interactions of English-speaking and Japanese-speaking children from the two-word stage onward, with special attention to the given/new contract and pragmatic factors. (Author/AM)

The existence of a "literary dialect" was postulated on several grounds, and specific syntactic structures were hypothesized to be literary or nonliterary. This was tested by obtaining judgments from adults on hypothesized literary and nonliterary structures, each presented at two levels of vocabulary difficulty. (HOD)

Analysis of French-spoken constructions in which the superlative begins the utterance, rather than occurring within the sentence, suggests that instead of being variants of standard usage, these constructions leave substantial room for interpretation of syntactic relationships. (Author/MSE)