The authors review research on attempts to promote speech acquisition in severely handicapped students. Studies on verbal imitation, syntactic forms, and semantics are summarized. Implications for instruction are noted, including careful selection of responses likely to occur in the child's normal environment and which have intrinsic reinforcing…

Discusses the didactic implications of the object + infinitive pattern for English as a foreign language. The pattern is divided into several subgroups, the object taking different types of infinitives. The significance of the first and second objects, of objects as antecedents, and of the second object being a clause is detailed. (PJM)

Outlines the evolution of automatic translation research during the last 25 years and describes the systems developed by the University of Montreal group. Defines the applicability of these systems as limited to technical texts with restricted terminology and simple grammar, their product still requiring a translator's correction and revision.…

Presents experimental evidence supporting the assertion that successive single-word utterances share certain suprasegmental characteristics with multiple-word utterances and that they are therefore not single words but the first manifestation of syntax in speech. (AM)

Describes the subdivisions of the human peri-Sylvian language cortex which were determined by stimulation mapping during craniotomies of four adult patients. (SA)

The study of children (ages 4 to 6 years) with articulation problems found that syntactic structure and word structure significantly affected the accuracy of articulation and the degree of word simplification, suggesting that structural complexity may contribute to overall hierarchical complexity, in turn causing children to simplify their speech.…

Finds that phrasal verbs (verb-particle combinations, i.e. "speak up" and "get up") have received insufficient treatment in the literature of grammar. Proposes eight categories for phrasal verbs, grouped according to use. (IFS/WGA)

A model of language transfer is proposed. It examines the nature of language transfer, identifies which language phenomena are transferred, and predicts conditions for language transfer occurrence. The model includes notions of language universals, language distance, and surface language phenomena. (PMJ)

Examines whether language play could affect primary school children's awareness of their syntax. (MP)

Verbal elements in Cairene Arabic are investigated in the light of two opposing hypotheses, one stating that the elements constitute a unit, the other stating that each element is an independent predicate. (AM)

Examines topicalization in Haida, describes its role in the language, and describes the particles used to mark it. (Author/AM)

Presents an analysis of the similarities and differences between the temporal conjunctions "when" and "while." (AM)

Examines "do so" and "so do" constructions, with reference to the questions of verb phrase constituency and ambiguity. (AM)

Two experiments offer clear support for an interactive view of sentence comprehension; semantic factors do interact with syntactic factors. (RL)

The study investigated the effects of syntactic order on the recall performance of ten oral hearing impaired, ten manual hearing impaired, and ten normal hearing children (ages 14 to 17 years). It was concluded that the hearing impaired Ss demonstrated evidence of processing syntactically structured material in a similar manner to normal hearing…