Traces the history of the study of linguistics in Chile and discusses how linguistics is being taught at the university level in Chile today. (NCR)

Lists the Spanish verbs most frequently used in various texts, in order of frequency. (NCR)

Discusses the distinctions that exist among the uses of "ser" and "estar" in Spanish. They are explained with reference to the semantic values present in the three basic functions of these verbs: principal, auxiliary, and attributive. (NCR)

The command-following behavior of holophrastic children was compared to that of telegraphic children. Four holoprastic and four telegraphic children learning English as a first language, and three holophrastic and the telegraphic children learning Spanish as a first language were tested. No significant differences were found among the four groups.…

Though hidden from view by being considered "non-existent", the meager evidence indicates that Hispanics have an unusually high arrest and incarceration rate. Hispanic background is rarely asked on the six major sources of criminal justice statistics--statistics of arrests, courts, prisoners, juvenile delinquency, crime victimization, and public…

Presents a critique of John Knowles' (1975) analysis of Spanish impersonal "se." (AM)

Paired English-learning and Spanish-learning infants were tested for perception of two synthetic speech contrasts differing in voice onset time. Results indicate that Spanish-learning infants discriminated both English and Spanish contrasts, while English-learning infants appeared to have discriminated English contrasts only. (JMB)

The article discusses the broadcasting of Spanish public service announcements to the Hispanic community by a profit-making company, Hispanic ownership of radio and TV stations, and the need for Hispanics in policy-making positions within the media and as participants in community action groups and public forums. (NQ)

Presents a novel approach, relying on linguistic principles of semantics, to teach grammatical usage in Spanish as a second language. (AM)

Back translation, decentering, and statistical techniques were used to produce a Spanish-language version of a paper-and-pencil test that measures acculturation on a Mexican-to-American continuum. (Author/NQ)

Edward T. Hall who has been an anthropologist, a writer, and for over 60 years a participant in the complex cultural life of New Mexico, talks about New Mexico's "cultural mosaic", the schools and teachers, bureaucracies and the courts. (NQ)

Presents two different types of progressive construction in Spanish and Catalan, one referring to a state or event, and the other to the development of an event. The article argues that the first is predicated of a homogenous period of time, whereas the other is predicated of a period of time divided into consecutive phases. (23 references)…

Reviews diffusion and promotion of the Spanish language from the first Spanish colonizers in the Americas to the present. Describes the situation of Spanish within Spain as a form of internal colonialization and reviews language policies. Analyzes present-day institutional efforts at maintaining language co-existence within different autonomous…

Lists a selection of trade books written in Spanish for young readers. Books are categorized under the headings For the Very Young, Biology, Ecology, General Science, Physical Science, and Technology. (YDS)

Investigated the extent to which there is rhetorical variation between the research article abstracts written in English for international journals and those written in Spanish and published in Spanish journals in the area of experimental social sciences. Rhetorical variables found across the two languages may be explained by the different…