Supports the view that a teacher is needed to help students acquire foreign language skills and that language instruction cannot be exclusively entrusted to the language laboratory. (DS)

Special issue devoted to the study of generative grammar in German-speaking countries. (VM)

Research supported by a grant from the Rome Air Development Center. (DS)

The analysis of errors made in free recall tests involving sentences under different transformation conditions indicates that syntactic and semantic errors may not be wholly independent of each other. (FB)

Questions Chomsky's postulation of an innate capacity for language use, and suggests that Chomsky is modifying his theory by including the time factor in his consideration of language acquisition. (RS)

Revised version of a paper presented at the Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics, Cambridge, England, 1969. (DS)

An introduction to transformational generative grammar including recommendations of textbooks for those interested in the subject. (SW)

Summarizes the results of attempts to teach a young chimpanzee to use sign language, and raises questions about the uniqueness of human language. Analyzes language development in children and suggests that humans differ from nonhuman primates in the ability to analyze the environment into parts which can be manipulated in the mind, and that it is…