Examines the structure of negation in questions in French, in particular the interrogative form containing a negative but expecting a positive response. (AM)

Reports on research that sought to clarify Brown's (1973) research on acquisition order, syntactic complexity, semantic complexity, and the relationship among the three. (Author/AM)

Proposes a metatheoretical basis for an epistemology of linguistics. (AM)

Reports on a study which explored the intonational differences between constant plus variable utterances and variable plus variable utterances, and which sought to use intonation to resolve the lexical additive vs syntactic representation of beginning productions. (AM)

Presents a critique of John Knowles' (1975) analysis of Spanish impersonal "se." (AM)

Sixty learning disabled children and 60 children in regular classes (both groups' ages six to nine years) were given a tense marker test to elicit future, present, and past tense markers for 50 verbs organized into ten categories based on the operation required to form the past tense. (Author/PHR)

Discusses recent analyses of the adjective in Italian and stresses the importance of the position of the Italian adjective for second language learners of Italian and for Italians learning foreign languages. (CFM)

Presents a novel approach, relying on linguistic principles of semantics, to teach grammatical usage in Spanish as a second language. (AM)

Examines the differences in the way French and English treat contrastive stress and comparatives, with implications for translation. (AM)

Argues that in an unmarked sentence the verbs will be stressed, and that in determining patterns of sentence stress the vital consideration should be the speaker's point of view. (AM)

The aim of this article is to show the interaction between syntax and semantics. A question-answer environment, where the answer is composed of an adverbial, is used to demonstrate the interaction. (Text is in French.) (TL)

Discusses French morphology and shows that the rules at this level of linguistic analysis are particularly susceptible to having exceptions. The irregularities are grouped into three types: 1) idiosyncrasies, 2) accidental gaps, and 3) the existence of non-productive processes. (Text is in French.) (TL)

Describes the utilization of graphic cues, by low-achieving college freshmen, in its relation to syntactic and semantic factors. (JM)

This paper reports an investigation into the acquisition of indirect object constructions by English children aged 5-10. Sentences having a prepositional "to" phrase containing the indirect object, and following the direct object, were acquired before sentences where the indirect object preceded the direct object. (CHK)

Examined whether the preferences of verbs for appearing in particular subcategory structures can influence parsing and whether this influence is graded according to the strength of the preferences. Findings suggest that the verb subcategory preferences do produce a graded influence on the parse, according to their strength. (28 references)…