A teacher attempted to make students think about what they say so that they can express themselves on paper more clearly. (RK)

American Italian exhibits interference from English in loanwords, loanblends, loanshift extensions and loan translations, and some of these are analyzed in this paper. (CK)

THE EXTENT TO WHICH PATTERN PRACTICE TECHNIQUES HELPED NEGRO STUDENTS WHO NEEDED TO MASTER STANDARD ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE WAS INVESTIGATED. MATERIALS AND PROCEDURES TO IMPLEMENT SUCH TECHNIQUES WERE WORKED OUT. THE SUBJECTS ATTENDED CLAFLIN COLLEGE, AN ALL-NEGRO 4-YEAR COLLEGE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. APPROXIMATELY 65 TO 70 FRESHMEN WERE PLACED…

SEVERAL EXPLORATIONS WERE MADE INTO THE STRUCTURE OF MEANING IN BURMESE AND RUSSIAN. VARIOUS KINDS OF LINGUISTIC INFORMATION WERE ISOLATED BY TEXTUAL STUDY AND INTERVIEWS WITH NATIVE SPEAKERS. DISCUSSION COVERED SUCH THEORETICAL QUESTIONS AS (1) SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY, (2) SEMANTICS AND GRAMMAR, (3) SEMANTICS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE, (4) SEMANTICS…

Reported were studies measuring residual auditory capacities of deaf persons and investigating hearing aids which transpose speech to lower frequencies where deaf persons may have better hearing. Studies on temporal and frequency discrimination indicated that the duration of a signal may have a differential effect on its detectability by…

A study of the order of acquisition and fossilization of several French forms by anglophone students focused on the intonative aspect of interlanguage and the transfer of learning from one language to another. (MSE)

Describe studies in which day-long recordings were made of nine-year-old children's spontaneous speech. Results indicate that: (1) children aged five to 15 speak some 20,000 words of discourse per day in about two to three hours of pure speaking time; (2) they have an active vocabulary of some 3,000 word-form types. (SED)

A third-grade girl who did not speak in school was treated by school personnel using principles of behavior modification. A step-by-step procedure was designed which first encouraged speech in a one-to-one setting with an adult. Gradually elements of the regular school situation were introduced. Several months following termination of treatment,…

The primary purpose of this article is to analyze further the effect of increasing the rate of speech upon comprehension. (Author)

While an aroused public applauds the exposure of civic corruption and environmental pollution, neither the public at large nor officialdom has any concern with the corruption and pollution of language except to contribute to it. (Author)