The educator should always strive to use only "emancipative" language: not authoritarian, but rather aimed at developing maturity and cooperation on the matter in hand. It should be pertinent, consistent, comprehensible, reversible, and practice-oriented. It is consciously undertaken, normative behavior, oriented toward political and social…

This paper presents a model for turn-taking in conversation that is locally managed, party-administered, interactionally controlled, and sensitive to recipient design. Several general consequences of the model are explicated. (CK)

A study into the reasons why certain dialects become standard. (CH)

A test of the linguistic attitudes of teachers toward Black, Anglo, and Mexican-American children. (CH)

This study involved 208 children and their mothers. It tested the effect on the child's self-esteem of the way the mother interacts verbally with the child. In general, descriptive responses are more effective than judgmental ones. (Author)

An approach to reversing pervasive pronunciation errors in students of English as a second language has been developed that uses a variety of techniques and strategies based on the assumptions that: (1) changing habits is a gradual process; (2) progress occurs when students are aware of their problems and the solutions; (3) most learning must…

The present study sought to determine how varying sequences of audience attentiveness-inattentiveness affect the following non-content features of speech behavior: speech disturbances, rate, vocabulary diversification, and filled pauses. (Author)

Spoonerisms can be elicited by having the subject articulate a target preceded by bias items. Any systematic difference in rate of errors between similar targets must result from processes after recoding of target into its slip. Editing processes make lexical outcomes more frequent than nonsense outcomes. (CHK)

The duration of utterance, latency, and interruption speech behavior of 30 young job applicants was studied under three speaking conditions. In the third condition, the employment interview, a number of positive correlations emerged. Verbal IQ is positively correlated with a speaker's mean duration of utterance, especially when he is discussing…

This study identifies the phonological system in the idiolects of three native speakers of the Acadian dialect in southwest Nova Scotia, on the coast of Baie Sainte-Marie. The study also highlights the specificity of the phonological system by comparing it with the speech of Acadians in Moncton, New Brunswick and with standard French. The…

The paper--half of which consists of appended charts, data, and the like--reports on two studies investigating the listening preferences of normal and Down's syndrome infants for recordings of adult speech to a normal 18 month old in contrast to adult speech to another adult. In the first study, Ss in both groups were 12, 15, and 18 months of age.…

A MANUAL, TO PROVIDE PARENTS WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORK OF THE SPEECH TEACHER AND WITH METHODS TO CORRECT THE POOR SPEECH HABITS OF THEIR CHILDREN IS PRESENTED. AREAS INCLUDE THE ORGANS OF SPEECH, WHERE THEY SHOULD BE PLACED TO MAKE EACH SOUND, AND HOW THEY SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT MOVE. EASY DIRECTIONS ARE GIVEN FOR PRODUCING THE MOST…

The research findings of profane language usage need to be extended so that more may be learned about human communication. In order to establish profane language usage norms, eighty-six university students were asked to estimate their profane language usage in each of three categories (excretory, religious, and sexual) in reference to three…

THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AGREED THAT THE BASIC LANGUAGE GOAL FOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN SHOULD BE LITERACY IN STANDARD ENGLISH SO THAT THEY WILL BECOME EMPLOYABLE. THEY ALSO FELT THAT ATTENTION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO HOW LIMITED LANGUAGE USAGE CONSTRAINS THE CHILDREN'S INTELLECTUAL…