The purpose of this study was to determine whether marihuana users differ from non-users in their orientation toward past, present and future. Results suggest a significant relationship exists between marihuana use and past orientation. (Author)

The study involving 54 learning disabled (LD) students (7 to 11 years old) and 54 regular class students (3 to 7 years old) investigated the developmental patterns for the comprehension of complex temporal references. Three types of stimulus sentences were designed to test the comprehension of temporal references employing the temporal…

The purpose of this paper is to advance the state of chamber-theatre theory by providing a mechanism not only for the staging of works of prose fiction using several narrators but also for those works which have been cast in a temporal sequence inconsistent with the customary perception of time. Venn diagrams are used to represent logical…

A classroom calendar, created and used for recording events to illustrate the passage of time and to record school experiences was particularly helpful for a student with a communication disorder who needed more structure for understanding time concepts. Spin-off activities include recreating experiences and illustrating calendar activities. (CB)

Administered year and month versions of the Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Interview (PERI). Found mean values and variances of scale scores consistently larger for the year than for the month time frame for all 14 symptom scales, and the covariance pattern different for four scales. Neither version was consistently better in distinguishing…

Describes a study designed to explore the nature of early use of two forms of the perfect--the present perfect and the present perfect progressive--by children over three years old. Three factors were found to influence children's selective imitation and paraphrasing of the perfect: verb form, semantic sense of the perfect, and duration of the…

Examined relationships between age, value of time over both short and long term, perceived time to death, self-perceived activity levels, and estimates of brief time intervals in a sample of older institutionalized males. Time intervals were increasingly underestimated with advancing age, indicating that time units are short with increasing age.…

The history, mechanics, values, applications and future of time-lapse recorders. (Author)

Makes it obvious that the alteration of one variable will have significant impact upon the other. (Editor)

Discussion of Harald Weinrich's Tempus--Besprochene und Erzahlte Welt" and its discussion of the grammatical implications of time and tense. (RS)

On the whole, the stereotype here investigated is only partly validated. There does seem to be a more rapid pattern of activities in urban settings, as compared to rural, but the anticipated greater time-accuracy of urban dwellers cannot be substantiated. (Author)

A study is reported of the relationships between an abbreviated dogmatism scale, two dogmatism subscales, and perceptions of time. Among the conclusions, it was found that for men and women, dogmatism relates to anxiety about time, a reduction in the present's and future's importance, and an emphasis on the past. (Author)

Part 1 appeared in English Language Teaching v24 n3 May 1970 (EJ 023 138). (FB)