Grammatical sentences were easier to imitate than ungrammatical ones only when function words were included in the sentence; with function words absent, there was no significant difference. (Authors)

Work supported by a National Institute of Health Research Grant. (VM)

Discusses the issue of segmentation in phonological analysis. (VM)

Research supported in part by a Research Foundation of the State University of New York summer research fellowship to Marcia Johnson. (VM)

During research reported here, the author held a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship. (VM)

Research performed pursuant to a grant from the Office of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare; also supported by the Advance Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. (VM)

Research based on part of a doctoral dissertation submitted at the University of Virginia and supported by a National Science Foundation Research Grant to L. Starling Reid. Preliminary report of these data presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, N.Y., 1971. (VM)

Part 2 of a continued article; part 1 appeared in v38 n2. (WB)

In this study the part of the sentence which constitutes what the speaker is talking about is called the topic" of the sentence, and the rest of the sentence is the comment", which provides new information about the topic. (Author/MB)