Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, December 29, 1968, in New York, New York. (DS)

A review of The Acquisition of Language: The Study of Developmental Psycholinguistics" (Harper and Row), by David McNeill. (RY)

Discusses and illustrates three rule sets suitable for presenting generative grammar to beginners; and appendix to the author's article with the same title in the February 1970 (No. 13) issue, pp. 39-53; see TE 200 767. (Editor/SW)

Argues that one's cognitive patterns "force" the nature of the subject matter one generates and imitation facilitiates the internalization of these patterns. (RD)

Continuing series featuring points of grammar. (DS)

Containing series featuring points of grammar. (DS)

An attempt to define "unless" by reference to the various contexts in which it can occur rather than by the usual equation with "if...not." (FWB)

Adults and children three, four, five, and six years of age were asked to complete statements by choosing a word from the following word pair alternatives: metaphorical/literal, literal/anomalous, and metaphorical/anomalous. A categorization task was used to determine how subjects viewed relationships among items. (Author/RH)

Results of syntactic and semantic comparisons of 10 retarded children (mean age nine years), 10 normal, and 10 language impaired children matched for MA indicated that retarded children's language abilities were essentially comparable to the normal children without the same linguistic deficiencies as the language impaired children. (Author/CL)

Interactions between phonology and syntax were inspected in continuous speech samples, from 30 speech-delayed children. Results indicated that two-thirds of the Ss displayed evidence of overall syntactic delay, whereas half showed some limitations in use of phonetically complex morphophonemes, their performance in that area being below the level…