The uneven but continuing emigration of Soviet Jews since 1972 has been brought about by government policies that are all but openly anti-Semitic. More than 80,000 of these refugees have settled in the United States, many in New York City. They come from a population that is highly urbanized and well educated. Most speak Russian but identify…

This study describes special questions (SQs) and disjunctive questions (DQs) in English and Polish. Central to the study is the interrogative mood and the illocutionary force of the question; interrogative structures without illocutionary force are excluded. "Speech Act Theory" (SAT) is used as a label for certain tendencies in the…

THERE ARE 15 LESSON UNITS IN THIS INTRODUCTORY LANGUAGE TEXT PRESENTING BASIC CEBUANO GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES TO THE SPEAKER OF ENGLISH. THE MATERIAL IS SO PRESENTED AS TO ENCOURAGE EXTENSIVE PRACTICE IN HEARING AND SPEAKING THE NEW LANGUAGE. A COURSE TAUGHT WITH THIS TEXT CAN BE COMPLETED IN APPROXIMATELY 350 CLASSROOM HOURS SUPPLEMENTED BY…

THE MATERIALS IN THIS HANDBOOK CONSIST OF 64 PRONUNCIATION DRILLS FOR THE "PASHTO BASIC COURSE." THESE DRILLS ARE BASED ON A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF PASHTO AND ENGLISH PHONOLOGY AND ARE TO BE ADMINISTERED BY A NATIVE SPEAKER. SIXTY PASHTO ITEMS ARE INCLUDED IN EACH DRILL, 30 CONTAINING THE PARTICULAR SOUND BEING TAUGHT AND 30 CONTAINING…

THIS PRELIMINARY EDITION COMPRISES A DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR OF INDONESIAN (BAHASA INDONESIA), THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA. THE THREE SECTIONS--PHONOLOGY, SYNTAX, AND MORPHOLOGY--PRESENT A COMPREHENSIVE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF INDONESIAN, WITH OCCASIONAL CONTRASTIVE REFERENCE TO MALAY, JAVANESE, SUNDANESE, AND SUMATRAN. THIS…

This unannotated bibliography consists of four sections. Section One is a general introduction to error analysis and interlanguage studies, aimed primarily at students writing their theses and at practicing teachers with little experience in these fields. Section Two presents a list of the journals referred to in the bibliography. Section Three,…

SINCE MANY STUDENTS OF PORTUGUESE HAVE SOME PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF SPANISH, THE TEACHER OF PORTUGUESE SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE EFFECTS CAUSED BY THE CLOSE STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE LANGUAGES. THE AUTHOR BELIEVES THAT "FOR PRACTICAL PURPOSES, AN AMERICAN ENGLISH SPEAKER WHO HAS A REASONABLE (UNDEFINED) COMMAND OF SPANISH WILL REACT TO…

CHINESE SPEAKERS IN THE UNITED STATES USUALLY SPEAK CHINESE WITH ENGLISH WORDS INSERTED. IN MANDARIN CHINESE, A TONE-SANDHI RULE CHANGES A THIRD TONE PRECEDING ANOTHER THIRD TONE TO A SECOND TONE. THE THIRD TONE IS LOW--THE THREE OTHER TONES ARE HIGH. IT IS THE (-HIGH) FEATURE THAT PROVOKES CHINESE TONE SANDHI. USING THE TONE-SANDHI RULE, THE…

Two questions might be asked of psychologists by foreign language teachers: (1) What steps can be taken to maximize positive transfer and minimize negative transfer between native and target languages, and to what extent are those steps effective? (2) How can we predict the amount of facilitation or interference that will occur when a student…

This paper is concerned with the metathesis of contiguous sibilants and stops. The paper is divided into the following parts: 1) a summary of several different descriptions of obstruent metathesis, 2) a list of examples illustrating the process, 3) discussion of experimental work on the perception of the clusters, and 4) concluding remarks noting…

Designed to aid teachers of English to speakers of other languages in dealing with pronunciation difficulties, this text consists of three sections: (1) vowel contrasts, (2) consonant contrasts, and (3) vowel and consonant cluster contrasts. The prefatory section provides charts indicating vowel and consonant articulation, and the pages on which…

Describes the contrasting structures of negation in French and in Hungarian. (AM)

Discusses the syntactic differences in expressing wishes or desires in Italian and Russian. (CFM)

The study describes the language situation of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and examines the factors governing the language choice of Sinhalese bilinguals while attempting to correlate such factors with domains and role relations. (Author/HP)