Study of the utterances of twins, two-and-a-half years old. (VM)

Author explains the child's egocentrism" (physical, intellectual, linguistic, and social) and suggests that adults adopt a policy of intelligent neglect." (Author/SP)

Response to Roger A. McCaig's article, How Not To Analyze the Syntax of Children: A Critique and a Proposal," Elementary English," vol. 47, no. 5 (May 1970), pp. 612-18. (RD)

A review of Child Language: A Book of Readings" (Prentice-Hall), an anthology edited by Aaron Bar-Adon and Werner F. Leopold. (RY)

In this replication study both northern and southern teachers tended to classify a child culturally disadvantaged" even after very short exposure to his speech, if his speech exhibited irregularities in grammar, silent pausing, and pronunciation. (NH)

Although stressing that continuing research by no means ensures better teaching," the author briefly discusses certain areas of research in linguistics and related fields which might prove profitable to the language teacher. (FB)

Examines the relationship between the development of fine motor control for articulation and the development of fine motor control in other muscle systems. Discusses whether the late appearance of /r/ and /1/ is due to the fact that their articulation requires finer motor coordination than other classes of sounds. (EKN)

Discusses recent research highlighting both the child's growth as a reflective language user and the school's capacity to enhance or hamper that growth. The research is concerned with the need for children eventually to use language in decontextualized ways, without the supporting context of visible or manipulable objects or actions. (HTH)

Differential attention of two-month-old infants to synthetically generated and naturally produced rising and falling intonation contours was studied, and it was learned that infants attended more to naturally produced rising contours and synthetically generated falling contours. Use of the infant-control auditory preference paradigm was also…

Findings include (1) comprehension of 'this,''that,''here,' and 'there' depends on the role the comprehender plays in the conversation and (2) 'this' and 'here' are more difficult to comprehend that 'that' and 'there.' (EKN)

Argues that knowing how infants process speech is a prerequisite to any definition of linguistic experience and therefore, the discrimination paradigm does not provide a test for the effect of experience on infants' speech discrimination. Outlines conditions to be met in order to conclude an effect of experience. (EKN)

Investigates in an experimental setting the claim that young children have some knowledge of the rules of correspondence between language and reality which are central to propositional logic. (EKN)