Information is presented in this paper regarding suprasegmental features of Black English thay may cause reading interference for some Black children. Much of the research concerning reading problems of many Afro-American students stresses the segmental differences of the phonology, the morphology, the syntax, and lexical selection between two…

The present monograph is second in a series of reports on research work edited by Basil Bernstein of the University of London. The research, carried out by the Sociological Research Unit of the University of London Institute of Education, is concerned with the inter-relationship between culture, social organization and orientations towards certain…

An "organization of repair" operates in conversation, addressed to recurrent problems in speaking, hearing, and understanding. Several features of that organization are introduced to explicate the mechanism producing a skewing in which self-repair predominates over other-repair, and to show the operation of a preference for self-repair.…

A 121-citation annotated bibliography describes journal articles, books, and other documents regarding bilingualism and deafness in six sections: sociolinguistic aspects; linguistic aspects; psycholinguistic aspects; language acquisition; language policy and bilingual education; and language attitudes. (CB)

A source of regularity in sentence construction is the recurrent use of certain fixed syntactic formats in explaining, describing, etc. Subjects exploit these regularities in sentence perception. An experiment on the perception of "perverse" sentences shows that listeners assimilate some of the features of sentences to "formulation frames."…

Proposes a revision and expansion of Schumann's (1978b) model of pidginization as it relates to second language learning. A distinction is made between sociocultural aspects of the pidginization cycle and the acquisitional processes of pidginization, creolization, and decreolization. (Author/AM)

The study of schema theory as part of the inquiry into the nature of language comprehension has drawn attention to the reader's central role in the construction of text-guided meaning. Contemporary schema theory represnts a major step in the effort to move away from a reductionist view of reading comprehension. Specifically, it focuses on wbat…

SESSION 63 OF THE 1967 INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION BROUGHT TOGETHER SEVEN DISTINGUISHED MEN WORKING IN FIELDS RELEVANT TO LANGUAGE. THEIR TOPICS INCLUDED ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, MAN'S PHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS FOR SPEECH, LINGUISTICS, AND TECHNOLOGY AND…

INFORMATION ON 633 LANGUAGE RESEARCH PROJECTS IS CONTAINED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY, THE FOURTH OF A SERIES PUBLISHED BY LANGUAGE RESEARCH IN PROGRESS (LRIP). PART I COMPRISES A THESAURUS AND CATEGORY LISTING. PART II IS AN ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF INVESTIGATORS AND INSTITUTIONS. PART III IS A NUMERICAL LISTING OF PROJECTS. A FURTHER LIST OF ONGOING…

THIS DOCUMENT IS THE SIXTH REPORT IN THE LANGUAGE RESEARCH IN PROGRESS (LRIP) SERIES, AND LISTS A WIDE VARIETY OF LANGUAGE-RELATED RESEARCH PROJECTS CURRENT BETWEEN AUGUST 1967 AND MARCH 1968. RESEARCH PROJECTS TERMINATED IN THE SIX MONTHS PREVIOUS TO PUBLICATION ARE INCLUDED AS WELL. APPROXIMATELY 280 PROJECTS ARE CROSS-INDEXED BY SUBJECT,…

The author presents this monograph as essentially a "prise de position" with regard to certain of the central questions in current debates over the nature of human linguistic systems and techniques of analyzing and describing them. While it is presumed that the reader is already acquainted with the issues being debated in linguistics in the…

Throughout the fifties and sixties the methodology of second-language teaching underwent a radical change in response to new communication needs, and under the influence of structural linguistics and behavioral psychology. Unfortunately, the effort did not produce all of the results expected, and this probably for two reasons: on the one hand, it…