This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 14 titles deal with the following topics: children's ability to read their own dictated oral language; adjunct structure and reading comprehension; learning and comprehension of simultaneously presented stimuli in children of superior intelligence; literal comprehension as an aspect of total comprehension; the effects of advance and nonorganizers in the learning of verbal materials; the effect of silent and oral reading on comprehension and oral reading miscues; effects of learning instructions and age on information acquired from prose; adult age differences in sentence memory; the effects of restructuring grammatical patterns on comprehension; the effects of expectation modification on reading comprehension; the effects of spatial organization of text on content recall; relationships between semantic and stylistic aspects of language and comprehension of discourse written for children; influences upon learning rate in first grade children exposed to several stressors; and the effects of lexically ambiguous nouns embedded in a reading task for children. (GW)