Discusses some of the problems inherent in traditional methods of acquiring data for linguistic analysis, and proposes research methods which involve questionnaires and are designed to eliminate these problems, especially where reliable intuitive data cannot be obtained. (AM)

Looks at phonological development in lexical terms and extends the method of Ferguson and Farwell to consideration of syllables within words. The research is directed toward the question of whether children acqure a sound system by following "universal" orders of acquistion or by developing distinct strategies. (EJS)

Investigated was the relationship between linguistic coding and cognitive style in 96 adolescents. (Author/BD)

The purpose of the paper was to map the language development of children at infant school and examine spontaneous corrections made by the children of their speech. (Author/NCR)

Examines the role of the Scottish language in education and the status of Scottish literature in the secondary curriculum. (Author/RK)

The influence of alcohol intoxication on the retrieval of information from memory was investigated in nonalcoholic subjects Intoxicated subjects recalled fewer categories and words within categories. The retrieval stage of memory did not appear to be affected by alcohol. (SW)

Two experiments examined the effects of level of processing and uniqueness of encoding on the ability to recognize the nominal stimulus among either semantically similar or structurally similar distractor items. (Author/NCR)

The author accepts some of the technical comments in Dresher and Hornstein's article on artificial intelligence (AI), (EJ 161 384, Cognition, December 1976), but disagrees with several other comments. Although Dresher and Hornstein unquestioningly adopt Noam Chomsky's paradigm for the study of language, their real point is that AI researchers are…

Language development has been insufficiently considered as a whole. This article surveys linguistic measures of which there are many; stylish measures that have not on the whole been seen developmentally; cognitive measures of which there are few; and affective measures particularly in relation to "maturity" of which there are scarcely any. As an…

Describes Joan Tough's research into the uses of language by middle-class mothers and their children in English society and presents the classification system for child language developed by Tough. (DD)

Discusses an experiment in progress to prove that irony in written texts is discernible to the non-native speaker through logical or linguistic cues. (Text is in French.) (AM)

The article looks at idiomaticity from the semantic and syntactic angles. After a summary of the problems arising from a semantic definition, some recent proposals regarding the syntactic behavior of idioms are reviewed briefly and evaluated. There is a sizable bibliography. (AMH)

Three experiments were conducted to extend the finding that, whereas phonemic coding is employed for short-term temporal order recall, coding of temporal-spatial patterns is employed for short-term spatial order recall. At least three types of coding strategies are available to subjects in short-term memory tasks. (CHK)

Report on a theory of articulation and communication of meaning, based on research by Piaget and Barbizet. Three steps are distinguished: discourse in Language X; the act of grasping the meaning outside the language of the discourse; and re-expression of the thought in Language Y. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

In this resume of a longer study, a true bilingual is defined as one who in fact possesses two native languages and so is accepted as a native in each culture. The distinction between true bilingualism and ability to speak a second language is made. (Text is in French.) (AMH)