Paper prepared for a conference on Creole Languages and Education, University of the West Indies, July 24-28, 1972. (DD)

Discusses the "Hebrew Revival," which is considered a misunderstanding because Hebrew was never a "dead" language. (four references) (VWL)

Studied the representation of two variables, the root morpheme and the identity in the Hebrew language by investigating the Obligatory Contour Principle (J. McCarthy, 1986). Three experiments involving 24, 22, and 24 college students suggest that linguistic representations specify variables. Speakers' competence, however, is governed by violable…

Investigates the use of discourse markers in the "layering of voices" in Israeli Hebrew talk in interaction. The study is based on audiotape recordings of 16 casual Israeli Hebrew conversations between friends and family relatives collected over 3 years. (Author/VWL)

A fundamental concept of generative phonology stating that related morphemes have unique phonological representations is criticized. It is argued that more morphologization of phonological rules is needed to explain morphophonemic changes. (Available from North-Holland Publishing Co., P. O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.) (CHK)

The development of devices used to coin agent and instrument nouns in Hebrew was investigated among 60 children aged 3, 4, 5, 7, and 11. The prevalent word-formation device in Hebrew is the triconsonantal root combined with vowel patterns. Other available devices include suffixation, conversion, and compounding. Questions designed to elicit…

In his article "Contraction, Deletion, and Inherent Variability of the English Copula" ("Language," 1969, William Labov asserts that the affinities of Black English (BE) with Standard English (SE) are evidenced by the fact that BE copula deletion occurs in those positions where SE copula contraction may occur. This paper examines the conclusions…

The revival, spread, and modernization of Hebrew, the maintenance of other languages, and variation within modern Hebrew are discussed. Courses in sociolinguistics are described, followed by a bibliography of sociolinguistics in Israel. (RM)

This paper describes how problems of input and display in developing a computer-based book catalog including nonroman scripts for the New York Public Library (NYPL) were solved. An innovative approach to filing nonroman entries in a catalog is presented. (Author/KP)

Revised and expanded version of a paper presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, N.Y., December 28, 1968. (DD)

Results of a study which examined inter- and intrarater reliability of the Oral Interview test suggest that communicative tests such as the Oral Interview can be used reliably, in spite of their subjective nature. (EKN)

Discusses a longitudinal and cross-sectional study of two- to three-year-olds' acquisition of noun pluralization patterns in Hebrew. Results indicate that children choose the plural morpheme according to the nature of the final syllable of the singular noun and not by the grammatical gender of the noun. (EKN)

The study examined cognitive aspects of 60 learning disabled (LD) eight- to twelve-year-old Israeli boys as reflected in the Hebrew version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R). Despite the translation of the test to Hebrew, the WISC-R preserved its ability to differentiate between LD and normal children. (Author)

Describes the adaptation--based on Roe's classification of occupations--of two interest inventories translated into English. In an analysis based on the responses of 181 participants, the items followed the six rules for interest inventory items formulated by Meir and Gati. Analysis supported the construct validity of the inventories. (RJM)