The see-saw pair is a technique for perceptually contrasting the two realizations of the third tone, viz. the low-level half third and the low dip full third. (DD)

Isotopy'' is constituted by a redundance of linguistic units, which may or may not be manifest, on the level of expression or the level of content. (DD)

Concerns the small proportion of phonemes in any given language, as compared to the number of morphemes, lexemes, and sememes. (DD)

Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)

Work supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the University of Michigan. (DD)

Lecture presented at the Language Testing Course at the Reinhardswaldschule, Kassel, West Germany, June 1972. (DD)

Part 1 of the article appeared in vl n2 of Linguistik und Didaktik.'' (WB)

Conclusion of a continued article; previous parts appeared in v38 n2 and v38 n3 of Revue des Langues Vivantes''. (WB)

Part 1 of a continued article. (WB)

Part 2 of a continued article; part 1 appeared in v38 n2. (WB)

Explores the role of negative marking in the mapping of the semantic and syntactic structures of Taiwanese modals on to their surface structure in terms of syntactic transformations. Particular attention is paid to the process of lexical fusion as it occurs in such negative forms as "be" and "m." (Author/PJM)

Offers a definition for "prefix," contrasts the definition with those found in several reading series, discusses the pedagogical relevance of this definition with reference to problems found in these reading series, and indicates reasons for reevaluating conclusions drawn from previous research on the teaching of word analysis skills. (Author/TJ)

The results of this study raise serious questions about the validity of cross-sectional studies of second language acquisition based on instrument-solicited morpheme data. The analysis of spontaneous data examined longitudinally suggests that such data may provide richer insights into the second language acquisition process. (Author/POP)