Current topics in language : introductory readings
Questions, interrelations, and applications: a general introduction.
Introduction -- They learn the same way all around the world / The limitations of imitation / Language learning and the brain / Emergence of the speech sound / The pattern of early speech / Why not pivot grammar? / Acquiring negation and questions / Mitigation and questioning in verbal repertoire / Receptive bidialectalism: implications for second-dialect speech / Writing for the here and now / Summary: language acquisition and teaching.
Introduction -- Discovering regional dialects / Language and prestige: "standard English" / The reflection of social processes in linguistic structures / The styles of the five clocks / First-language influences on ethnic dialects: Spanish and Navajo / Dialect differences and Black English / Selected features of speech: Black and White / Black views of language use: rules of decorum, conflict and men-of-words / Language and general intelligence / The advantages of being bilingual / The research non-basis for "restricted codes" / A visit to a California classroom / 22,000 "retarded children" face second chance / Doublespeak: dialectology in the service of Big Brother / Summary: language variation and teaching.
Introduction -- The facts of linguistic change: Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern English versions of one text / Language and change / Two thousand years of language study / Phonemes, morphemes, and meaning / Lexical structure and meaning / Chomsky and the creativity of language / Generative syntax: grammaticality, phrase-structure rules / Generative syntax: transformational rules- negation, questions / Generative phonology: phonemes, phonological rules / "Syntactic maturity" and syntactic appropriateness in teaching writing / Syntactic ambiguity in the poetic dialect / Summary: modern grammars and teaching.
Introduction -- Reading: a psycholinguistic guessing game / The utility of phonic generalization in grades one through six / The language-experience approach to reading / Juantito's reading problems: foreign language interference and reading skill acquisition / Dialect barriers to reading comprehension revisited / Reading and Black dialect: a review of the literature / Reading for speakers of English as a second language / Teaching vocabulary as an introduction to new material: is it worthwhile? / Reading comprehension: a redundant phrase / Leeway in matching books and children -- Summary: teaching with the reading process.
Ainsworth-Vaughn, Nancy, editor.
Dan I. Slobin -- Philip B. Gough -- Wilder Penfield -- Roman Jakobson -- David McNeill -- Lois Bloom -- Edward S. Klima and Ursula Bellugi -- William Labov -- Rudolph C. Troike -- Stephen N. Judy --
Roger W. Shuy -- Raven I. McDavid, Jr. -- William Labov -- Martin Joos -- Muriel R. Saville -- Philip S. Dale -- Juanita V. Williamson -- Roger D. Abrahams -- Eric H. Lenneberg -- Wallace E. Lambert -- Nancy Ainsworth Johnson -- John J. Gumperz and Eduardo Hernández-Chavez -- Terry Link -- James Sledd --
A.G. Rigg, editor -- Charles C. Fries -- Jeanne H. Herndon -- Charlton Laird -- Charles C. Fries -- John Lyons -- Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman -- Bruce L. Liles -- Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman -- Jean Malmstrom and Constance Weaver -- James C. Stalker --
Kenneth S. Goodman -- Mildred Hart Bailey -- Wilma H. Miller -- Nancy Modiano -- Kenneth S. Goodman and Catherin Buck -- Joan C. Baratz -- Pat Rigg -- Margaret Lindberg and Laura A. Smith -- Yetta Goodman --
[edited by] Nancy Ainsworth Johnson.
