Argues against Youssef's treatise which pointed out some difficulties in attempting to test Bickerton's language bioprogram hypothesis (LBH), contending that the treatise seriously misunderstood certain key concepts of the LBH and dismissed with questionable reasoning some important findings which supported the state/process distinction as a…

An investigation looks at complex English sentences that are used to represent two ordered events and containing "before" or "after" subordinate clauses. It is concluded that text evidence is directly relevant to an understanding of language processing. (25 references) (Author/VWL)

Discusses the use of terms to describe sociolinguistic situations in multilingual societies and proposes several new terms to facilitate such descriptions. (CB)

Argues that words with different meanings normally appear in discriminably different contexts, and that the cue for learning to associate direct antonyms is not their substitutability but rather their frequent co-occurrence in the same sentence. (Author/VWL)

The essentially sociolinguistic position of Bhatt and Martin-Jones on language awareness is assessed and analyzed in terms of applicability to the majority population. The question of whether bilingualism is a linguistic or social phenomenon is addressed, followed by an argument for including this issue in language awareness teaching. (Contains 10…

This paper investigated the relationship of syntactic structure with prosodic and phonological information, focusing on distinctions between early and late closure sentences in terms both of intonational phrasing and of stress placement on stress shift items such as "Hong Kong." Contains 63 references. (MDM)

Forty-three theoretically grounded reports of research and discussions of central issues in second- and foreign-language writing and writing instruction are compiled in this annotated bibliography. Covering the period April 1 through July 31, 1993, the citations are categorized as follows: writers, processes, texts, readers, context, instruction,…

Examines Noam Chomsky's (1957) discussion of "grammaticalness" and the role of linguistics in the "correct" way of speaking and writing. It is argued that the concern of linguistics with the tools of grammar has resulted in confusion, with the tools becoming mixed up with the actual language, thereby becoming the central…

Using data on the pattern of occurrence of words embedded in the polysyllabic words of the English vocabulary, argues that recognition and segmentation of continuous speech appear to be based on competition between lexical hypotheses. It is concluded that lexical competition is an essential component of models of continuous speech recognition. (53…

Edwards (1992c) concerns data and data use rather than manuals. It presents principles to facilitate reliable archive research in an imperfect world. MacWhinney and Snow (1992) endorse the principles but disagree on important details, discussed in this response. (21 references) (KM)

The historical development of strong and weak definitions of applied linguistics is traced. It is argued that weak definitions do not limit themselves to resolution of second-language teaching problems, potentially address all practical language-related problems, and provide the necessary flexibility for realistic theory and practice of applied…

Describes a study in which an extensive fuzzy boundary was identified within the adult extension of two exemplary object-words, "dog" and "ball." It is argued that there has been an underestimation in previous research of the degree of correspondence that exists between child and adult extension. (33 references) (GLR)

Looks at two sets of complementary experimental data to consider whether listeners can determine the age of a speaker from hearing a voice sample. The experiments conducted involved speech samples from natural conversations; parallel studies were done in the United States, using native speakers and situations and native speakers as experimental…

This article is concerned with the notions of genealogy and continuity in linguistic research. Specifically discussed is the continuity that African linguistics offers to linguistics, focusing on the relationship between Firthian linguistics and current autosegmental and metrical phonology. (42 references) (VWL)

Argues that Jerome Bruner's "Acts of Meaning" (1990), which calls for a "renewed cognitive revolution" for the direction of cognitive psychology research and study, does not sufficiently identify the direction of that journey or the obstacles that need to be removed for a successful journey. (31 references) (CB)