Defines the three terms and suggests ways to change interruptions to more positive speech patterns. (SP)

Discusses the semantics of sex-discrimination. (DD)

Author contends that we judge people too harshly by their speech. He advocates accepting children's dialects first then teaching them proper speech patterns. (AF)

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)

Presented in part at the National Convention of the American Speech and Hearing Association (44th, Denver, November, 1968). (JJ)

A summer program for disadvantaged children in grades 1 through 7 was designed to enrich and enhance the student's language experiences and to improve their communicative abilities. (Author/EJS)

Discusses problems Australian students face in learning to speak Spanish and recommends a detailed study of the varieties of languages taught in Australia. (SW)

Results of this study of 20 elementary school principals indicate a relationship between the language usage of school administrators and the intensity of certain characteristics in their administrative behavior. (MK)

Discusses the variation and stability of mother speech patterns across individuals. Analyzes the functionally coded speech of 11 mothers and provides a typology of mother styles, based on the intentions of mothers to direct or converse with their children. (EKN)

Extends the study of communication apprehension (CA) impact in the instructional environment through examination of high, low, and moderate CA levels relative to various performance situations in a basic communication course. Results indicate significant differences in achievement indices between the three CA groups. (JMF)