Kean (EJ 165 107) presented a linguistic model to account for the features of the syndrome of Broca's aphasia, especially their agrammatism. This paper critiques Kean's paper by describing and evaluating her five major arguments. It is concluded that Kean's phonological model cannot account for agrammatism as well as syntactic models can.…

Argues that discontinuities between sentences can often be explained in terms of syntactic relationships within individual sentences. (AA)

Describes a means of characterizing one of many semantic aspects of young children's comprehension ("necessity for linking"). This semantic aspect is then used to experimentally clarify sentence processing results that are ambiguous at the syntactic level. (HOD)

Examines the distribution of the French "ne" in order to determine the difference between the expletive "ne" and the negative "ne." (AM)

Verifying simple sentences generally involves a process wherein the meanings of individual words are combined to form the meaning of the entire sentence. Three experiments are described in which the combination process was investigated by asking subjects to decide whether S-V-Adj-O sentences were true or false. (Author/RM)

Discusses the nuances in meaning represented by the French adjective with relation to its position in a noun phrase, and by the use of the French subjunctive. (AM)

Reports on a study which sought to compare syntax acquisition in French by francophone and non-francophone children, in order to establish the order in which French grammatical elements are acquired, and in order to create a French version of the Bilingual Syntax Measure. (AM)

The development of plurals in two German-speaking children was analyzed, based on observational data. It was argued that the children were learning plurals by rote, conditioned by morphological complexity which cannot be subsumed under any general rule. (Author/NCR)

Research by Martin Joos and John J. Gumperz to develop a perspective for rhetorical analysis. Carter's final remarks in his Playboy interview are shown to reflect an ineffective sociolinguistic code shift to a stylistic level inappropriate to Carter as public personality and as presidential candidate. (JF)

The article discusses some practical considerations in the use of Blissymbols--a system of visual symbols for those who cannot communicate with speech--with multiply handicapped children. (Author/DLS)

Simplification in structure and confluence between the local-language structure and the prestige-language structure are usually predicted in language death as in pidginization. For a dying Scottish Gaelic dialect, speakers were tested in the two most excessively complex morphological structures the dialect offers. (Author/NCR)

Examined was the influence of syntax and articulation treatment programs on the speech and language improvement of 24 children (5-6 years old) with multiple linguistic problems. (Author/CL)

A linguistic analysis of 30 political speeches by de Gaulle is presented. The speeches are compared with regard to pronouns, verb tense, ways of referring to France, length of phrase, and total length of speech. The speeches are then characterized as electoral/non-electoral and evolution/crisis. (Text is in French.) (MLA)

A summary of problems in the study of structural complexity. Within the framework of a "morphology of utterances," the following topics are addressed: the criteria of intuition and common sense; the relationship of complexity of language and thought; and the possibility of a purely linguistic measure of complexity. (Text is in French.) (AMH)