An experiment was carried out at the University of Wyoming with a group of beginning students of Russian. The group consisted of about 30 students at the beginning of the experiment, but by the second semester, the number had been reduced to 15. The method used in this experiment was based on the assumption that true learning occurs when students…

Reports on experiences covering two years of use of a Russian television course for Grade 9. The course is seen as particularly useful in reinforcing knowledge of vocabulary of past lessons. Several practical hints to the teacher, e.g., preparation for the television lesson, are offered. (Text is in German.) (IfS/WGA)

Presents a report on club work at the Lingreen Oberschule (high school) in Greifswald. Activities include contact with Soviet schools and clubs. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Two passive forms of verbs are discussed. One is related to its active counterpart transformationally and the other lexically. Voice is defined as the relationship between a verb's subcategorization feature and the surface form of the sentence it occurs in. (SC)

Describes techniques for achieving emotional involvement and, therefore, better results on the part of his students in an intermediate level Russian conversation course. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

THE PRIMARY PURPOSE WAS TO PRESENT DATA FOR THE TRANSFER OF LEARNING FROM ONE SENSORY MODALITY TO ANOTHER, SPECIFICALLY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VISION AND AUDITION. THE PARAMETER WAS A RANGE OF NATURAL LANGUAGES INCLUDING SPANISH, JAPANESE, RUSSIAN, TURKISH, AND PERSIAN. THE SECONDARY PURPOSE WAS TO SUGGEST SOME THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS WHICH MAY…

This terminology circular is one of a series issued by the International Labour Office on an irregular basis, designed to facilitate the work of translators, editors, and other staff members. The circular contains official titles of personnel, offices, bureaus, branches, departments, and other organizational units of the ILO. Entries are listed…

This four-part study introduces the reader to the methods and procedures used in descriptive linguistics and their application to the sound systems of English and Russian. A condensed phonology of English includes discussion of consonants, vowels, stress, phrasing, and pitch. The section on Russian phonemes examines: (1) consonant and vowel…

In discussing the views of leading linguistics on the specific features of Slavic negation, the author reviews mainly Czech material and compares it with Russian and English works. This paper is part of a larger work on negation in which it is argued that a language system is a dynamic system based on oppositions (with predominant binary…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Rene Wellek, Philip Rahv, Murray Krieger, Irving Howe, Eliseo Vivas, D. H. Lawrence, Sigmund Freud, Dmitri Chizhevsky, V. V. Zenkovsky, Georg Lukacs, and Derek Traversi--all dealing with the biography and literary work of…

The reappearance of an old controversy on how best to analyze the Russian palatalized consonants prompts the author of this article to define the words "palatalization" and "palatal." Contrastive examples clarify phonetic terminology including the classifications of "labial voiced and voiceless palatalized stops,""labial voiced and voiceless…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of the draft of new elementary school programs in Russian language, arithmetic, and natural history. Elementary Russian courses are regarded as an organic part of the entire course at the eight-year school. Such courses as phonetics and morphology figure in the draft program…

THIS PUBLICATION PROVIDES A HISTORICAL REVIEW AND LISTING OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES, BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN. THE VOLUME DEALS WITH THE LESSER-KNOWN BRANCHES OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY AND THE MAIN LANGUAGES OF THIS GROUP COMMON TO MODERN TIMES. (THE REPORT IS PART OF A SERIES, ED 010 350 TO ED 010 367.) (JK)

A COMPUTER PROCEDURE IS DESCRIBED FOR PARSING RUSSIAN SENTENCES WITH A CONTEXT-FREE RECOGNITION GRAMMAR. THIS IS THE FIRST PROJECT UNDER A PROGRAM FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF SEVERAL ASPECTS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE DATA PROCESSING BY FORMALIZED METHODS TO DETERMINE THE USEFULNESS OF FORMALIZED LINGUISTIC TECHNIQUES IN PRACTICAL LANGUAGE DATA PROCESSING…