A study investigated the acquisition of the phonemic feature/voice/ and, more specifically, voice onset time (VOT), in Hindi and English. Subjects were 20 monolingual children aged 2 to 6 from each of the 2 language groups, divided into 5 age groups, and 10 adults from each language group. Flash cards depicting minimally contrasting sets of words,…

A discussion of agency looks at cross-linguistic evidence concerning the place of volition, animacy, and person in a model of agentivity. Two views of agentivity are presented as complementary rather than mutually contradictory. Data from Lhasa Tibetan that support a less restrictive notion of agency than is often assumed are presented. In this…

This article discusses the difference between French and English constructions of motion and change of place, by contrasting French and English examples of such constructions. (CLK)

It is asserted that certain points in Russian grammar can be adequately explained only with reference to sentence stress. Areas which lend themselves to explanation in terms of sentence stress are suggested, and directions given for developing drills. (Author/RM)

Text-linguistic studies, e.g. the use of French determinants as compared with German, are not fruitful in teaching foreign language as such, though they may be of relevance in other grammatical studies, and particularly in teaching literature. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Examines possible comparison techniques which should transcend linguistic levels and should be of practical use in the learning process. The article goes on to discuss the possibility of a contrastive study of errors. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The question of whether apparent similarity of two languages really facilitates the learning process is raised. Linguistic and pedagogical problems involved in the instruction of languages which resemble each other are discussed. (Text is in French.) (TL)

This article is a study examining the relationship between the Salish and Nez Perce languages, including a syntactic, semantic and phonological comparison. A historical and social background is also included. (CLK)

Speakers of dialects are at a disadvantage in society. The intention is to teach them the standard language using the contrastive analysis approach. (Text is in German.) (TL)

The Chinese numerical system and its contrastive aspects with the English system are discussed, as well as some implications of the numerical system in the spoken language. (RM)

A discussion of pragmatics looks at and compares a variety of statement types in Macedonian and French. Based on the assumption that the most important semantic and syntactic elements are presented by the speakers themselves as well as by the temporal and spatial markers, the function of the statement form is examined. Focus is on the use of the…

The properties of presupposition were investigated in Japanese and English. The investigation examined how the presupposition is preserved under different syntactic structures, and identified presupposition in terms of the transitivity of factive verbs. Japanese was seen as more clearly manifesting "presuppositionability" than English in…

Little is known about the transition from the use of Latin to the use of German in scientific literature. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Latin texts by Albrecht Durer and Johannes Kepler were bestsellers while the German versions were unpopular. German mathematics became acceptable only after 1700, with the work of Christian Wolff.…

A study of the vocabulary of business and economics involved morphological and semantic analysis of a sample of the lexis. The investigation began with the assumption that this lexis is not a rigid system of clearly-defined terms. Morphologically, a high degree of variety in productive types of compounding was found, exceeding by far the…

There is overwhelming evidence that children's first words are primarily nouns even across languages. These data are interpreted as evidence of a "Natural Partitions Theory," one that holds that the concepts referred to by nouns are conceptually more basic than those referred to by verbs or prepositions. Analysis of data from…