Investigates the effects of two kindergarten programs, social class, and sex upon children's oral syntactic facility. (Author)

Airs pros and cons of direct method, grammar translation method, and audiolingual method in foreign language teaching. Suggests that the eclectic method which does not follow one principle, but combines three methods and follows psycholinguistic issues, is most effective. (DS)

Revised version of an address delivered July 18, 1969, under the auspices of Summer Courses for Applied Linguistics", organized by the Goethe Institute, Munich, West Germany. (RS)

Work supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to Harvard University and by the Language Research Foundation. Considers the properties and use of the word even'' in English. (VM)

Revised and expanded version of a paper read to the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Linguistics, New York City, March 14, 1970. (VM)

Research performed while Shannon Moeser was on a Science Scholarship of the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, and forms part of this author's doctoral thesis submitted to McGill University. Research also supported by an NRC grant to Mr. Bregman. (VM)