Revised version of an article which appeared in the June 71 Bulletin" of the Centre de Recherche de l'Education Specialisee et de l'Adaptation Scolaire. (VM)

The present article draws upon some of the data collected by the Birmingham (England) Educational Priority Area (E.P.A.) Action/Research Project in its investigation into the effectiveness of pre-school language intervention programmes. (Author/RY)

Parts of this paper were presented at the Psychonomic Society Convention, 1969. (VM)

This study examined the effectiveness of pattern drill relative to (a) the reduction of phonological and grammatical variations from the standard South Midland dialect, and (b) the promotion of reading ability. (CK)

Research supported in part by a research grant from the United States Office of Education to Cornell University. (DS)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, November 1970, in Los Angeles, California. (DS)

Discusses a study of the grammar and syntax development in the speech of three children; adapted from the forthcoming book, Developmental Psychology Today" (CRM Books, Communications Research Machines, Inc., 1971). (Editor/SW)

Reviews and discusses experimental and observational research on the function of the social environment of the child in the mastery of syntactic regularities during language acquisition. Theories based on modeling, imitation, and reinforcement are addressed. A 73-item reference list accompanies the text. (Author/JL)

The validity of using phoneme monitoring techniques to measure syntactic processing in French was validated by two experiments. Significant differences in the reaction times of 80 French-speaking academic professionals to phonemes immediately following reversible subject relative clauses and those following object relative clauses demonstrate the…

Offers a critical review of arguments for and against T-unit analysis in second language research. Maintains that T-unit length is a valid measure of syntactic complexity and a true index of overall development in second language acquisition. (PMJ)

Measures of pragmatic development for children in the second year of life were developed based on a 30-minute language sample drawn from 20 children. Results support the view that the range of pragmatic functions grows steadily during the one-word and early two-word stage and that it is measurable. (Author/AM)