Studies an extension of the modality system currently in use in narrative semiotics in order to determine the status of prophecy in narrative syntax. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/AM)

Systematic evaluation of the task demands of changes in utterance length and complexity among stuttering (N=8) and nonstuttering (N=8) three- through six-year-olds revealed that fluency breakdown was significantly correlated with gradual increases in syntactic complexity for both stuttering and nonstuttering children, as was sentence replication…

A reevaluation of a previous study which found a significant improvement in speechreading scores of 15 normal hearing adults following a word-scoring training intervention found that, though subjects increased verbal output and mean length of utterance, they did not improve sentence comprehension, syntactic correctness, or overall response…

Presents three short articles which discuss problematic areas of the English language. The first article discusses agreement between subject, complement, and verb; the second is about the placement of adverbs with verbs containing two or more elements; and the third is about the rules and tendencies of contracted forms in English. (SED)

Discusses the use of the preposition "a" by examining why a few verbs in Spanish seem to occur with an obligatory marker and what relationship exists between this use of the preposition "a" and the more common occurrence of "a" with animate, definite direct objects. (SED)

Suggest that the "one to one" principle of interlanguage construction can account for both minimal "pidginized" interlanguage systems and more developed interlanguage systems. This principle specifies that an interlanguage system should be constructed in such a way that an intended underlining method is expressed with one clear invariant surface…

Presents an analysis of the modal verbs in English and Moroccan Arabic that works equally well for both languages and is simple enough to be of use to the classroom teacher. (EKN)

Refers to an outline of a new grammar book from the Spanish Royal Academy. (SK)

This paper describes how the problem of resolution of syntactic ambiguities is approached in the parser PHRASE, developed for use in experiments in automatic indexing and extracting. PHRASE is a multi-level parser for declarative sentences, in which the syntactic structure is built up in four stages. (10 references) (Author)

Three measures were found to contribute significantly to the prediction of comprehensibility: mean linguistic depth, the number of self-embedded structures in the sentence, and the number of conjoinging transformations in the derivational history of the sentence. (Author/FB)

Earlier version of the paper was read at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1971. (VM)

This survey of the usage of "to have" is intended to give the teacher "a clear idea of what he is teaching, of what is important, and of what to say when the less common patterns crop up in his lessons." (FWB)

From a corpus of over 47,000 spontaneous utterances from four nonstuttering preschool children who were beginning to use syntax, 4,881 multiword, disfluent utterances were identified. Semantic-syntactic structures were identified among the disfluent multiword utterances, and differences in frequency of structures were examined. (Author)

Describes and analyzes in detail the form and function of the English construction "as + participle", called the participle construction of characterization, or PCC. (EKN)