A collectivity can be defined by the verbal instrument which binds it together. By extension of this thought of Marshall MacLuhan, the importance of the written language as normative for the uniformity, universality and preservation of the phonetic system of the language is discussed. (Text is in Spanish.) (AMH)

Based on resolutions passed at the state meetings, a National Plan of Action was proposed. Members of the National Conference of Women then met in Houston, Texas to vote on the Plan's 26 resolutions which covered such items as battered women, child abuse, credit, disabled women, Equal Rights Amendment, reproductive freedom, and rural women. (NQ)

The origin, etymology and phonology of two words of Chinese origin found in Peruvian Spanish are outlined. The words, "chifa" and "chaufa," derive from Cantonese words for "rice" and have been adapted into Spanish. (CHK)

The disparities between men's and women's education, jobs, and salaries have not avoided Hispanas. On the contrary, Hispanic women, are doubly burdened, not only by the discrimination against them as women, but as members of a minority group. (Author/NQ)

Cable represents the only avenue available for Hispanics to gain substantial control over a communications medium. It has the potential to provide Hispanics not only with ownership opportunities, but also with employment, quality programming, and long-term commitments and responsibilities to meet the programming needs of the Hispanics in this…

Written in Spanish, the article briefly discusses the composition of Hispano students in elementary schools. The role of bilingual education programs is discussed. (NQ)

Presents an analysis of Spanish stress based on natural generative theory that places strong constraints on phonological abstractness. This analysis takes Spanish stress to be morphologically determined in relation to the stem of the word. (Author/RM)

This article discusses bilingual education as it relates to the Spanish-surnamed students of the Southwest. (RC)

Three measures were used to check the biadialectal imitative facility of 100 Black, White, and Spanish-speaking Head Start children. (Author/SBH)

A small group approach, involving 30 women, was implemented to meet the educational and emotional needs of a Hispanic prenatal hospital population, which staff characterized as hysterical and hard to manage during labor and delivery. (Author/MH)

Reports on a study identifying the varying beliefs of beginning university foreign language students about language learning, focusing on one component of an ongoing investigation attempting to characterize individual learner beliefs and belief systems by student type. (CB)

Monolingual children were assigned to two groups to examine the role of reinforcement in language acquisition. One group was differentially reinforced for use of foreign vocabulary. The other group was first reinforced nondifferentially for use of either native or foreign language and later differentially reinforced for foreign language use. (PCB)

Spanish modal verbs may express necessity, obligation, probability, and possibility, in either their personal or impersonal modes. Analysis is based on examples of contemporary Madrid speech. Four modals, "poder,""deber (de)," tener que," and "haber que," are placed within a tripartite structure defined by…

A study reveals that lexical borrowing in Spanish, from a variety of languages including Latin, French, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Provencal, and Catalan, accounts for 41 percent of the basic Spanish vocabulary, with variation in source according to historical period. (MSE)