The primary aim of the paper is to increase the number of intuitions accounted for by Bock's rules. The revised set of rules accounts mainly for intuitions in the area of step-, half-, and -in-law relationships. (CFM)

Reading and writing are recognized as the essential tools to knowledge, yet high schools and colleges continue to turn out students who are semiliterates. Article discussed the part that English and English teaching has had in bringing about this situation. (Author/RK)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Takes issue with some conclusions by J. L. Dillard in his article Principles in the History of American English--Paradox, Virginity, and Cafeteria,'' Florida FL Reporter (Spring/Fall 1970) p32-33, 46. Special issue on Black Dialect: Historical and Descriptive Issues'' edited by William A. Stewart. (RS)

Special issue on Black Dialect: Historical and Descriptive Issues'' edited by William A. Stewart. (RS)

Argues that the substratum of non-English language and cultural patterns in the United States limits the extent to which English can effectively function as "a deep component of American experience and of American national awareness. Appears in "The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue, "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American…

Discusses the linguistic and social significance of titles and forms of address. Mentions the frequently occurring variants in American usage and laments the neglect of the topic in textbooks. (IFS/WGA)

Presents a linguistic description of American Sign Language (ASL) phonology, morphology, and syntax. (AM)

Addresses the need for replication studies in the field of second-language acquisition and discusses the problems surrounding standards of reporting research. Notes a lack of uniform standards in reporting second-language learners' proficiency levels and proposes ways to achieve more thorough reporting of research that will allow others to engage…

Describes the use of negation in three corpora representative of early to mid-19th-century African American English. The study examines the negative form "ain't," negative concord to indefinites and verbs, negative inversion and negative postposing. Findings reveal that the negation system of early African American English derived…

Summarizes the main points presented in the 1989 book, "The Death of Black English" by R.R. Butlers (1989). Butler's book presents most important research of last 20 years and subjects the results to variation analysis. It is concluded that the history of linguistic assimilation points to the eventual disappearance of Black English in…

Discusses differences in German and American English pragmatics in the use of routine formulae, e.g., "Hi, how are you," and small talk through the observations of native speakers of German reacting to the verbal behavior of American English speakers in the United States. (14 references) (JL)

Provides data from a study that sought to determine and compare the attitudes of both native and nonnative speakers of English who listened to the specific regional accents of the English spoken in the United States. The groups judgments differed, and nonnative speakers were better able to perceive differences in regional accents of U.S. English.…