The investigation examined the effects of a brief encounter group experience upon residents in a university dormitory. Women living on three separate floors were designated experimental subjects and provided with a group experience designed to encourage personal interaction, while women on two other floors were assigned to a control group. (Author)

Revised version of a paper read at the Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, June 14, 1973, Vancouver, Canada. (DD)

Expanded version of a lecture held at the University of Vienna, May 25, 1972, and in shorter form at the Third International Congress for Applied Linguistics, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22, 1972. (DD)

Examines the influence of the situational environment on language use in the classroom. (RL)

The see-saw pair is a technique for perceptually contrasting the two realizations of the third tone, viz. the low-level half third and the low dip full third. (DD)

Paper presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Cleveland, Ohio, May 1972. (DD)

The study investigated the communicative effectiveness of word order in preschoolers' comprehension of meaning using simple questions and commands in an at-home play context. (ST)

Japanese and American children participated in a free word association experiment. Results indicated that culture was influential in the formation of language. (ST)