COOPERATION AMONG THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SPECIALIST, THE PSYCHOLOGIST, AND THE EDUCATION SPECIALIST IS ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH IN THE QUEST FOR MORE EFFECTIVE METHODS OF LANGUAGE TEACHING. EIGHT PAPERS, PRESENTED AT A TUFTS UNIVERSITY SEMINAR DURING THE SUMMER OF 1961, ARE COLLECTED HERE IN A FINAL REPORT AND RELATE EACH PARTICIPATING…

THE EFFECT OF KNOWLEDGE OF GENERATIVE GRAMMAR UPON COMPOSITION SKILLS WAS INVESTIGATED. GENERATIVE GRAMMAR DESCRIBES THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS OF PRODUCING SENTENCES. IN THIS STUDY, GENERATIVE GRAMMAR WAS TAUGHT TO NINTH- AND TENTH-GRADE STUDENTS. SEVERAL SPECIFIC QUESTIONS GUIDED THE STUDY--CAN HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS LEARN TO APPLY THE RULES OF A…

A STUDY OF COURSE DENSITY AND PACE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION WAS BASED ON DATA OBTAINED FROM THE STAFF MEMBERS AND STUDENTS OF NINE SCHOOLS OFFERING INTENSIVE, SEMI-INTENSIVE, OR NON-INTENSIVE PROGRAMS IN WHICH AUDIOLINGUAL SKILLS WERE STRESSED. THE LANGUAGES CONCERNED WERE CHINESE, RUSSIAN, GERMAN, SPANISH, AND FRENCH. PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS…

AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF PHONEME DISCRIMINATION TRAINING UPON THE ABILITY OF SUBJECTS TO DISCRIMINATE AMONG FRENCH PHONEMES AND TO DISCRIMINATE FRENCH PHONEMES FROM THEIR ENGLISH NEAR-EQUIVALENTS, TO IMITATE THE PRONUNCIATION OF FRENCH PHONEMES, AND TO MAKE VALID JUDGMENTS OF THEIR OWN PRONUNCIATION. THREE GROUPS OF…

INFORMATION ON 633 LANGUAGE RESEARCH PROJECTS IS CONTAINED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY, THE FOURTH OF A SERIES PUBLISHED BY LANGUAGE RESEARCH IN PROGRESS (LRIP). PART I COMPRISES A THESAURUS AND CATEGORY LISTING. PART II IS AN ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF INVESTIGATORS AND INSTITUTIONS. PART III IS A NUMERICAL LISTING OF PROJECTS. A FURTHER LIST OF ONGOING…

A study was conducted to replicate and extend an earlier investigation of the persuasive effects of extended, intense concluding sex and death metaphors by using a more controlled design and by mixing metaphors. Fifty-eight high school students completed pretests assessing their attitudes toward a speech topic (legalization of marijuana). Two…

Longitudinal data on the language of one German-speaking child were gathered from her 16th to her 26th month. Speech acts involving "where" questions were isolated and analyzed. The following order of referential development was discovered: (1) pragmatic conditions taking the form of certain action-contexts first relieve the discourse…

An artistic verbal performance is something more than words, yet most critical commentary on this genre focuses on the word, on the linguistic level. A methodology for making performance-centered texts is described based on the performance of "Stagolee," a story that originated from Julius Lester's book, "Black Folktales." A…

A word association test was given in French to 76 girls learning French to determine whether their responses matched those given by native speakers. Three types of responses are possible in such a test: syntagmatic, where one word cues another that usually occurs with it ("bread" elicits "butter"); paradigmatic, which is of the same form class as…

An experiment was conducted to determine the validity of the theory that language-disordered children use the same strategies in acquiring phonological phenonema, in this case consonant clusters, as normal children do but at a later age. In acquiring productive use of consonant clusters, normal children go through three stages: (1) reduction or…

This paper indicates the relevance of psycholinguistic research to the study of the interpretation process. Citing selected experiments that demonstrate some of the possibilities for extending research into the language experience of the interpreter, the paper argues that such an approach might lead into examining the experience of imagery,…

This study presents an argument against the identification of speech as the sole source of data for linguistic research. Specifically, the issue addressed is whether speech and reading and writing can be considered expressions of one language or whether the obvious differences in the terminal symbol strings in the two types of expression are…

A testing instrument, the Experimental Phoneme Sequence Test (EPST), was devised to collect baseline information for studying receptive knowledge of phoneme sequencing in normal articulating kindergarten and elementary school children. One hundred kindergarten through fourth-grade children, five male and five female subjects at each half-year…

An examination of the stylistic differences among writing from literary specialists, from science, and from social science shows that a more precise diagnosis of the writing problems of clarity and coherence is possible. Ten randomly selected paragraphs from each of four publications, the "Canadian Medical Association Journal," the "Canadian…

This study addressed four questions raised in syntactic acquisition studies conducted by Carol Chomsky and others. Specifically, questions concerned the nature of syntactic structures in children's language repertoires, the uniformity and rate of acquisition of particular structures, the generalizability of the minimal-distance principle, and the…