THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE ORDERED DISTRIBUTION OF A GIVEN ITEM IN A TEXT. THE ELEMENT CONSIDERED MAY BE ANY DISCRETE ITEM OR SET OF ITEMS IN A TEXT, SUCH AS A PHONEME OR GROUP OF PHONEMES, A MORPHEME, SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTION OR INTONATION PATTERN. THE AIM IS TO MEASURE NUMERICALLY HOW COMPACTLY (OR DIFFUSELY) THE ITEM IS DISTRIBUTED IN THE TEXT.…

This study examines two views of lexical storage and word production, a derivational hypothesis and an independent unit hypothesis. Reaction times and errors were related to derivational complexity. A model of lexical retrieval process incorporating derivational processes is proposed. (Author/SW)

Expanded version of a paper presented at the 3rd Regional Meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 21-22, 1972. (DD)

Data obtained under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics from 1954 to 1967. (DD)

Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (RS)

Part 1 of a continued article. (WB)

Identifies the languages and language groups in the Nilo-Saharan family (Songhai, Saharan, Mabau, Fur, Coman, and Chari-Nile). (DS)

A system for verb classification is developed and 214 irregular verbs are classified accordingly. (FWB)

A study of 140 seventh-grade students receiving morphographic spelling instruction indicated that morphographic techniques produced significant gains on program-fair and retention posttests. Morphographic instruction had a small, but significant, effect on conventional spelling. (Authors/CJ)

Twenty-four good beginning readers and 24 poor readers from 12 suburban first grades were tested on three measures of grammatical morpheme use: sentence recall, speech production, and language compehension. The two groups did not differ in sentence recall. Good readers produced more correct grammatical morphemes than poor readers, but the…

Five experiments are described which examine how polysyllabic words are stored and retrieved from lexical memory. The first four experiments look at interference effects caused by the accessing of inappropriate lexical entries. The fifth reveals that frequency of the first constituent of a compound word influences classification times. (CHK)

Surveys the development of second language acquisition research in the area of tense and aspect. Research in this area has grown from the incidental investigation of tense-aspect morphology as part of the morpheme-order studies to investigations of the construction of interlanguage temporal semantics. (Author/VWL)