Investigates the type of errors that can be shown to result from native language interference, specifically the production and perception of word juncture of American English speakers studying the Egyptian dialect of Arabic. Argues that word juncture phenomena are a function of syllable structure and presents other cases illustrating this. (SED)

Studies words in Portuguese and Spanish that may be identically written and pronounced but are different in meaning. (DS)

Paper delivered at the March 1969 meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. (DS)

Since linguistics and foreign language education meet in the domain of contrastive analysis, it should be possible for these two professional areas to cooperate in the development of pedagogically useful grammars. Such grammars should concentrate on traits of particular languages and on functional linguistic style. (JB)

In view of the call by reformers and critics for a new definition of education itself, the author investigates some of the difficulties in formulating such a definition by utilizing the study of language as well as linguistics, semantics, and etymology. (Author/SJL)

Discusses for the benefit of German students of Russian the various ways of rendering in Russian the German verb "haben" (have) used in the sense of "besitzen" (own). Numerous examples are presented. (Text is in German.) (FB)

Compares and contrasts the progressive constructions in English and Japanese, concluding that whereas an English sentence of this type refers to a dynamic state, this need not be the case in Japanese. The article argues that the progressive operators in both English (be-ing) and Japanese (-teiru) can be characterized as stativizer. (18 references)…

Discusses whether the hypothesis, within Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory, that the conditional and counterfactual constructions are semantic universals is justifiable in the case of Japanese. It is concluded that there is an unambiguous equivalent of the "if"-construction in Japanese, and that while there is an unambiguous…

In the second of a series on the logic of European languages, some idiosyncracies of morphology, phonology, and semantics in the English language are examined. (MSE)

Outlines aspects of the historical development of both German and English which teachers could present in the classroom to point out the many similarities between the two "foreign" languages. (Author/CB)

Discusses the relationship between traditional synonym theory and two perspectives of interlinguistics: contrastive lexical analysis and languages in contact research. The goal and methods of each are described briefly, and a new synonym conceptualization is proposed that better fits synchronic dynamics than the traditional theory. Examples from…