In order to assess the need and status of sources of multi-lingual rehabilitation terminology references, a questionnaire was sent to 96 related national and international organizations and selected individuals inquiring about the existance of present or developing terminology references. Results of the questionnaires indicated the availability of…

Memory and storage for base and surface sentence forms were compared by examining memory for these kinds of sentences. It was hypothesized that a subject hearing a sentence transforms it to its base form, stores it in this form, and recalls it, again transforming it, in its surface form. Thirty undergraduate educational psychology students,…

Language acquisition is a quantifiable system with the sum total of verbal inputs and outputs increasing with the age of the subject. Increases in vocabulary are positively accelerated during developmental years and become negatively accelerated or zero during adult years. Thus, older people have available a larger active and passive vocabulary.…

The speech of two male Taiwanese speakers was analyzed to determine whether fundamental frequency (Fo) is correlated with both duration and intensity; five conclusions are drawn. The results are discussed in terms of theories of pitch production and speed of pitch change. (EJS)

Answering the preceding article by Schank and Wilensky, the authors state that their previous article (EJ 161 384, Cognition, December 1976), suggested that the goals of artificial intelligence research are technological, not scientific. They also claim that the existence of a moderately successful program does not constitute a test of its…

A contextual history of the early word use of 2 children during the first year of language was compiled from 28 hours of videotaped mother-child interaction. (Author/JMB)

A wide variety of linguistic parameters designed to reflect verbal productivity and grammatical complexity were analyzed for 12 handicapped and 8 nonhandicapped preschool children. (Author/JMB)

Findings from studies exploring role of joint attentional focus in children's acquisition of language indicated that language of 24 mothers and their 15- to 21-month-olds inside episodes of joint attentional focus involved more utterances, shorter sentences, more comments, and longer conversations than outside of episodes. Also, object references…

Reports on four Australian experiments using Lambert's Matched Guise Technique for obtaining sociolinguistic attitudes. The accents studied include Australian; Received Pronunciation English, Liverpool, Glasgow Scots, East Coast U.S.A., French, German, and Italian. (EKN)

Reports on three experiments focusing on phonological recoding in fluent reading of meaningful sentences and asks whether spelling-sound rules play a role in this process. Results show that effects attributed to spelling-sound rule use--effects previously found in lexical decision tasks with single words--also emerge in sentence reading. (EKN)

Reports on experiments that address the question of whether pictures and the words that name them access a common conceptual representation. Results suggest that the major component in a lexical or objective decision is a form-specific memory representation of the work or visual object. (EKN)

Provides suggestions for ways of exploring the varied contributions of the classical languages to our vocabulary, as well as advice for those who are involved in the area of classical teaching. Reviews several books, dealing with such topics as Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes, word bases, and other parallel phenomena of the classical…

Discusses the lack of a neurolinguistics section at the 1975 AILA conference in Stuttgart and urges its inclusion at the next meeting. (KM)

This article discusses the relationship between linguistic theory and structuralist philosophy, and explores the possibility of applying structuralist ideas to other human sciences such as anthropology. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)