American education fails to prepare students for the world in which we live by not stressing fluency in foreign languages. Asiatic languages are becoming increasingly important. (Author/AF)

Excerpted from a study published by the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) pursuant to a contract (No. OEC-0-8-071155-3708) with the U.S. Office of Education. (DS)

Special issue devoted to study of the whistling language of Kuskoy, Turkey. Study was prompted by study of whistling language in Aas, France. (DS)

Reports on and presents results of 1980 MLA enrollment survey of foreign language registration in U.S. institutions of higher education. Results show only slight drop from fall 1977 report. Six leading languages are Spanish, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Russian. Survey shows considerable growth in less commonly taught languages. (Author/BK)

Describes the curriculum for training professional literary translators used at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. (AM)

This article discusses how constructing a typology of number systems is complicated by the existence of associative forms and why this problem arises. Data from Central Pomo and Central Alaskan Yupik demonstrate how this problem can be resolved. (18 references) (Author/CK)

Shows that in Hungarian, rich inflectional morphology goes on a par with rich prosody connected with word order. The article presents a model of the Hungarian sentence structure as an extension of the framework of metrical phonology. The proposed metrical syntax is based on stress reduction rules similar to those of metrical phonology. (15…

Examines literacy practices in a Corsican bilingual classroom--where both Corsican and French are used--and focuses on the way that pedagogical practices attribute authentic and powerful identities to both the minority language and to learners. (Author/VWL)

Addresses the following question: How are young bilingual informants positioned and how do they position themselves and others through discursive strategies within structures of languages, gender, and schooling. Draws on two theoretical approaches to understand the nature of language and power relations in a specific historical location in a…

Examines the use and structure of so-called nonfinite root clauses, including root infinitives and root supines, in Swedish child language. Investigation of four Swedish child language corpora shows that children use nonfinite root clauses in a systematic way. Also shows that children's use of root infinitives is closely associated with a…

Considers word search sequences and the opportunities for language learning that they may provide for nonnative speakers on the basis of naturally occurring interactions between native speakers of Danish and Dutch speakers of Danish. (Author/VWL)

Approaches the linguistic setting of a European inner-city, an area with a long history of migration from a sociological and linguistic perspective. After a qualititative-heuristic approach and conversation analysis, presents a description of sociolingual conditions and the process of their transformation. (Author/VWL)