Describes the goal of schooling as using whatever materials are at hand to facilitate the development of each person's epistemological skills. (Author)

Examines the connotations of the term black literature" and offers some thoughts as to the validity of the term. (RB)

Modified version of a talk given at Bloomington, Indiana on March 29, 1971. (VM)

Discusses the concept of semantic breeds"--a classification of persons according to the nature of their typical ways of thinking--and its implications for communication. (RD)

A review of Language Development: Form and Function in Emerging Grammar by Lois Bloom. (DS)

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)

Reviews some of the principal phenomena that have been found to characterize the acquisition of word meaning during the first two years of life, and proposes a theoretical framework which can be used to interpret these phenomena. (MP)

Although both 14 language impaired and 14 normal young children showed greater comprehension and production of words referring to objects than to actions, this tendency was not as marked for the language impaired Ss. (CL)

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