Outlines the influence of American English on British English, especially as it applies to the forming and usage of word compounds. (DS)

Article deals with an encoding variability view of retention. (Authors)

Children's ability to produce and use natural language mediators on a paired-associate recall task requiring self-generated elaboration was analyzed. Elaborations were recorded and classified according to a semantic-syntactic scheme. Comparisons between grades were made to determine the effectiveness of elaboration categories in facilitating…

Examines inalienable possession in French and Mandarin with the aim of bringing out typological affinities. In particular, two unresolved issues are re-examined: Haiman's Iconicity Hypothesis and the question of the protypical semantic categories of iposs. (32 references) (Author/CK)

Presents an analysis of code switching that relies on general principles of phrase structure and rejects constraints specific to code switching. This model is shown to account for intersentential switches between typologically different languages such as Farsi and English, including within word switches and switches between modifiers and nouns.…

Presents a description of a major class of vocabulary, signalling nouns, that have important discourse functions in establishing links across and within clauses. The description provides a framework useful to materials writers, teachers, and learners of English for academic purposes. (Author/VWL)

The speech of mothers of six children with Down syndrome was compared to that of mothers of nonretarded children, when subjects were aged 17-38 months. No significant differences were observed between the two groups for either proportion of substantive deixis or proportion of nouns (as opposed to pronouns). (Author/JDD)

The mnemonic keyword method was modified to help French-speaking undergraduates at a Canadian university learn the meaning and the grammatical gender of German nouns. Results bear on the encoding and retrieval of complex associations between a German noun and its grammatical gender. (TJH)

Investigation of four- through six-year-olds' abilities to correct over-regularized plural nouns and verbs in the past tense showed that, generally, older children performed better than the younger children, and plural nouns were corrected significantly more than past-tense verb forms. Younger children were better at correcting the nouns than the…

Provides an analysis of the syntax of Straits Salish. Main clauses consist of an initial predicate followed by a second position clitic string of inflectional elements, the subject pronoun and tense. Evidence is provided against copular verb analysis as further proof of the lack of the noun/verb distinction at the lexical level. (52 references)…

Analyzes speech samples from 9- to 12-year olds with specific language impairment. There were few differences between utterances that did and did not include correctly inflected forms; errors occurred on words later in an utterance. Slowed processing in a limited system handling several operations in parallel may lead to the omission of…

Examines the early production of 9 cohesive devices during narration about personal experience in an 18-month longitudinal study of 10 children between the ages of 2 and 3.6. The specification of noun phrases and types of noun errors is explored. (35 references) (GLR)

Five experiments used self-paced reading time to examine the ways in which complex noun phrases influence the interpretation of referentially dependent expressions. Results indicate that the entity introduced by a major constituent of a sentence is more accessible as a referent than the entities introduced by component noun phrases. (Author/VWL)

Provides a quantitative analysis of the behavior of nouns in two generations of speakers from a bilingual community in Northern Cyprus. Findings demonstrate that empirical investigation can disambiguate the community-specific status of language contact phenomena. (Author/VWL)