Research supported by the Ford Foundation and the American Association of University Women. (DD)

Revised version of a paper presented at the 1971 summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America at Buffalo, New York. Research supported in part by a National Science Foundation grant made to the Phonology Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. (VM)

Support for this research provided through a Senior Lectureship in English and Linguistics from the Fulbright Commission in Japan. (VM)

Study of the utterances of twins, two-and-a-half years old. (VM)

Demonstrates that "contractions and their related uncontracted counterparts may have different derivational histories, different semantic contents and different syntactic functions" and discusses the implications of these findings for the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. Revised version of a paper presented at the…

The effects of a morphemically based spelling program were ascertained for students of low, average, and high spelling achievement levels. Results show that the experimental group, in comparison to the control group, significantly improved its spelling performance. (Authors/JN)

College students and 6- to 10-year-old children searched four 50-word passages for instances of the letter "n". The subjects made most letter detection errors on the function words "in" and "and," and on the suffix morpheme "-ing." Developmental trends in detecting the target letter were noted. (Author/DB)

Postulates changes in morphology and higher levels of grammar induced by consonant deletion processes to compensate for reduced sentence redundancy and increased possibility of ambiguity. Examines evidence provided by the behavior of two Puerto Rican Spanish phonological variables interacting with the grammatical system in the capacity of plural…

Presents evidence from artificial language experiments in support of the "marker hypothesis," i.e., that natural languages contain elements that signal the presence of syntactic constructions and that the absence of such markers would render a language virtually unusable. (Author/AM)

Discusses grammatical morpheme omissions in the phrase productions of children with language impairments. Clinical procedures are described whereby the salience of grammatical morpheme models is increased and the difficulty of production of grammatical morphemes is controlled via manipulation of prosodic contexts to enhance learning of grammatical…