Four major areas of research into verbal development are discussed: (1) the relationships between behaviors hypothesized to be associated with one of the four major language skills, (2) the sequencing or ordering of behaviors within a skill, (3) the relationships between behaviors associated with different skills, and (4) the relationships between…

Using second grade children, this study was designed to investigate the differences (or lack of differences) among the Interview, the Picture Stimulus Interview, and the Free Play Situation techniques in the categories of productivity, thought groups, compound structures, complex structures, and words per thought group as a means of gaining a…

This study, an outgrowth of the "Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada," based on atlas field records covering the entire Eastern United States, enables the author to trace the geographical spread and also the social distribution of the linguistic features that are treated. Research demonstrates how early culture centers and…

A technique of measuring meaning was developed to allow the quantification of the meaning of a concept to a respondent. For purposes of this research, a set of scales based upon the language patterns of a large city public school children was developed. A brief review of Di Vesta's work in the development of semantic differential scales is…

This volume of working papers includes two papers concerned with syntactic analysis in English. The first paper deals with a number of problems that arise in conjunction with the necessary, allowed, or disallowed coreferentiality of a complement sentence subject with some noun-phrase in a higher sentence. The author seeks to prove that the…

This dictionary covers approximately 28,277 verbal expressions in modern standard Hindi and their rendered English equivalents. The study lists longer verbal expressions which are generally matched by single verbs in English. The lexicographer notes that the majority of entries in this dictionary do not appear in their present form in most other…

THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PUBLISHED PROGRESS REPORT TWO WHICH CONTAINS 22 COMPLETED STUDIES AND A LISTING OF 25 STUDIES IN PROGRESS. ALL STUDIES WERE PUBLISHED OR LISTED IN THE REPORT UNDER THE FOLLOWING GROUP HEADINGS--(1) LANGUAGE PROCESSES, (2) LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, (3) LANGUAGE…

LINGUISTIC STUDIES IN CHICAGO, DETROIT, LONDON, NEW YORK CITY, AND WASHINGTON, D.C. ARE REVIEWED. THEY SUGGEST ONE OF THE CURRENT TRENDS IN DIALECT RESEARCH--NARROW LINGUISTIC, INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSES OF LANGUAGE VARIATION IN CITIES. ANOTHER TREND STUDIED IS THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SPEECH OF STUDENTS IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS, AND…

A brief report of some preliminary findings obtained from a sociolinguistics census of Chicano college students attending a university in Southwest Texas is presented. Findings reported deal with: (1) general patterns of language usage as reported by students, and (2) the students' evaluative responses to code-switching phrases controlled for…

Sex differences in language development were studied. Protocols from 54 children, aged 2;0 to 4;2, were analyzed with Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) as the independent variable. When MLU's reached 3.75 to 4.0, differences began to favor girls. Results are discussed in terms of a social learning model and a cognitive model. (Author)

The 17-month (1967-1968) study summarized in this report concerned experimental analysis of the verbal behavior of disadvantaged preschool children (an interracial group of 28, ranging in age from 30 months to 42 months). Research was conducted in the verbal behavior laboratory at the University of Rochester and in a remodeled private home in a…

This study investigated semantic aspects of children's language as it is related to emotional expression. Children's ratings of vocabulary items categorized as expressing happy, sad, loving, angry, confident, and scared feelings were examined in three different ways: in isolation, in verbal contexts, and accompanying pictures of emotional…

In order to establish whether voice pitch and evaluative meaning play any significant role in affecting message learning (as demonstrated by listeners' recall) at the morphemic level of communication, 48 freshman students in a basic speech program participated in this study. Through individual headsets, students listened to tapes containing an…

Research in bilingualism has shown that the balance between a bilingual's two languages is rarely even and that there is something special about the mother tongue. Theories concerning separate storage of the two languages and first language primacy predict that: (1) the meanings of translation-equivalent words are not identical, and (2) the…

Cape Barren English is clearly the most aberrant dialect of English spoken in Australia. Descended from English sealers, whalers and ex-convicts and their Aboriginal wives, the inhabitants of Cape Barren Island, Tasmania, have lived in relative isolation for the last 150 years or more. Their dialect is not a creolized pidgin; it has a number of…