This article characterizes the extent and nature of the vocabulary changes in the People's Republic of China by identifying general areas of change and by observing particular features of the changes. (CLK)

Differences among students in writing behaviors were found according to learning environments, sex, and developmental factors. (JH)

Describes the principal characteristics of women's language and shows how composition classes often discriminate against women for using techniques they have been taught to use since childhood. (DD)

In two experiments, subjects were interrupted while listening to a two-clause sentence just before the last word of either the initial clause or the final clause. The two experiments together suggest that interclause semantic relations affect the immediate processing of clauses. (Author/EJS)

Analyzes ellipsis, pronominalization, emphatic stress, the indefinite article, the definite article, and initialization as used by child and adult speakers of English, Hungarian, and Italian. Conclusions: marked differences between the languages; early learning of the functions of the devices; some changes with age. (Author/EJS)

Comprehensibility ratings and sentence-by-sentence reading times of three-sentence narratives (triples) were studied as a function of the coherence of a triple. In both experiments, reading times did not differ for first sentences, but were longer for third sentences of unrelated than for related triples. (Author/RM)

Discusses the applicability of the notion of structured variability in language to contrastive analysis. (Author/AM)

Presents an heuristic procedure, based on cooccurrence of forms, for identifying the closed systems of a language and to show how the systems interlock, differ in meaning, and manifest themselves. (AM)

Tested whether listeners' reaction times for monitoring a predetermined phoneme are influenced by phonetic constraints on ordering. Reaction times were significantly shorter for phoneme monitoring in monosyllable-bisyllable sequences than in bisyllable-monosyllable sequences; however, reaction times were not significantly different for high-low vs…

Discusses recent studies giving conflicting answers, mostly unfavorable, to the question of whether the language laboratory is effective. Also, it is argued that children learn their native language by a process very different from foreign language learning and that research on the stages of language learning is urgently needed. (WGA)

An account of a research project based on the psycholinguistic theory of reading. Its purpose was to isolate, analyze and directly compare the use of syntactic, semantic and discourse constraints by readers of French either as a first or as a second language. (AMH)

A review of the research indicating that bilingual children enjoy a definite advantage in the domain of cognitive flexibility. Further, there is no basis for the belief that becoming bilingual or bicultural necessarily means a loss of identity. Application of the studies to ethnolinguistic minority groups is discussed. (AMH)

AKS is an organization of language centers, language-teacher training schools, and foreign language institutes. Its aim is improved teacher training in university-level scientific schools. Two working sections are discussed, one concerned with curriculum for prospective teachers, one with research in language teaching. (Text is in German.)…

No relation between composition "dialect" and judged quality of the writing was found. (DD)

A study concluded that significant differences did exist in the inclusion of females when using masculine/generic as compared to neutral/generic nouns. (DD)