Paper presented at the 1972 Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chapel Hill, N.C. (DD)

Revised and expanded version of a paper presented at the workshop "Research Problems in Sociolinguistics, "Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, West Germany, November 24-27, 1972. (DD)

Discusses formalized systems for representing grammatical structure. (DD)

Syntactic rules with structural descriptions which apply on several linguistic levels are called global derivational constraints. (DD)

After teaching the basic suprasegmental patterns, an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher can profitably continue with those other patterns which are useful in distinguishing meanings and whose absence on the printed page will sometimes result in double meaning. (Author/JM)

Continuing series on aspects of French grammar. (DS)

Described is a teaching technique designed to eliminate word-by-word reading: the teacher listens to a child read, notes the phrases which are causing difficulty, and writes these phrases on a card so the child can practice them for a few minutes each day. (KC)

Analyzes the syntactic structure of noun phrases and verb phrases in recipes and cookery articles in the French press and argues that the complexity of writing about cooking parallels the complexity of the cooking process itself, demonstrating how syntax can reflect function and meaning in a restricted text-type. (Author/MSE)

Examines the in-class essay as written by university freshmen to assess the extent to which students use formulaic expressions to minimize the cognitive burden of generating a coherent and adequate answer. Results show that students made extensive use of formulaic expressions and shaped their answers to reflect the way the information had been…

Examines "Head Movement" in internally headed relative clauses (IHRCs). The article shows that in some cases, head movement to an external position need not take place and demonstrates that this movement of the head to a sentence-internal position results from the quantificational nature of IHRCs and Diesing's mapping hypothesis (1990,…

Surveys the growing body of research on formulaic language units--or ready-made chunks and sequences of words. Evidence suggests that these multi-word lexical units facilitate long-term memory storage and fluent language production. Examines formulaic language acquisition in children and adults and discusses applications for teaching. (Author/VWL)