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The Effect Of Composition Instruction On Students' Ability To Compose At The Typewriter In Second Semester Beginning Typewriting., Shirley Ann Hatcher

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Structural Complexity Of Oral And Written Language Of Fourth Grade Children, Laurene B. Heintz

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A Study Of Content In The Language Performance Of Pre-School Children, Cynthia Anne Mooibroek

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An Investigation Of Elicitation Materials For One-Minute Start-Stop Language Sampling, Karen Louise Buelow

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Voice And A Generative Rhetoric Of Metavocal Modes : A Stylistic Study Of Nathalie Sarraute's Vous Les Entendez? And Maria Jolas' Translation, Do You Hear Them?, Lowell James Gallagher

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The Phonology Of Texmelucan Zapotec Verb Irregularity, Charles H. Speck

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The phonological rules governing Texmelucan Zapotec verb allomorphy are presented here as part of the phonological component of a generative grammar of the type conceived of by Chomsky and Halle but modified by Stampe, Rhodes and others. This modified theoretical framework has been referred to as natural phonology. Basic to the theory of natural phonology is Stampe's observation that two distinctive types of phonological principles operate in natural languages: natural processes which are innate and rules which are learned. The natural phonemic level is seen to relate to these principles.

In section 1: Lower Level Phonology, those principles which operate …

A Comparative Study Of Academic Achievement Of Full-Blood And Mixed-Blood Indian Students, Paul J. Comeau

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Melville's Sea Vocabulary: A Commentary And A Glossed Concordance., Jill Barnum Gidmark

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A Survey Of English Loanword Usage In The Spoken German Language Of German-Russians In North Dakota, Allen L. Spiker

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Jose Ruben Romero's Mi Caballo, Mi Perro Y Mi Rifle : A First Literary Translation, Barbara Louise Egan Ballou

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The Journey To Solipaz: A Study Of B. Traven's Fiction., Richard Eugene Mezo

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Anatomy Of A National Teachers' Strike: A Case Study Of The Strike By La Asociacion De Profesores De Segunda Ensenanza Republic Of Costa Rica 1977., Ralph Edward Sullivan

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A Comparative Study Of Attitudes Toward School Between Full Blood And Mixed Blood Students In The Standing Rock Community School, Curtis L. Lebeau

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The Newsreel In John Dos Passos' The 42nd Parallel : A Study Of Influences, Language, And Techniques, Susan Hedman Gronberg

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Syntactic Measurement In College And Skilled Adult Writing, Thomas Edward Clemens

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A Study Of D̲U̲B̲L̲I̲N̲E̲R̲S̲ As Foreshadowed In The First Three Stories, Galal I. Zaki

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An Analysis Of The Speaking Style Of Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Leader, James Francis O'Connor

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The primary function of this thesis was to determine, through the analysis of three randomly selected speeches, the speaking style of Heber C. Kimball. The selected speeches were presented in three different utah locations, and they covered a span of nine years (1856-65). All three speeches were presented to a Mormon audience and were religious in nature.

Seven elements of style have been used for the analysis of the three speeches. They are: accuracy, clarity, propriety, economy, force, striking quality, and liveliness. It was determined that President Kimball's speaking style was weak in the areas of accuracy and clarity. In …

Parental Control Of Children's Television: An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Control And Family Home Evening, Marion Wixom Mccardell

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This study was designed to examine the relationship between a secular behavior—television control—and a religious one—Family Home Evening. The findings show that there is a relationship, with those having favorable attitudes toward Family Home Evening and those who hold casual FHE's being most inclined to exercise positive control over their children's television viewing.

A Reliability Study Of The Critical Ratio Format Procedure For Screening Language, Barbara Gray

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An Investigation Into The Criterion Validity Of The Critical Ratio Format For Screening Syntax, Allison Jean Baird

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The Effect Of The Interviewer's Status Upon The Linguistic Style And Impact Messages Cenerated By The "Obsessive Personality", Vincent B. Greenwood

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The present study addressed some of the peripheral statements emanating from Kiesler’s (Kiesler, Bernstein & Anchin, 1976) core communications theory by examining (1) a specific component of the communication style of the obsessive personality, (2) the distinctive emotional engagements the obsessive personality elicits when interacting with others, and (3) a situational determinant that is hypothesized to trigger relatively intense expression of the obsessive’s self-defeating communication style, as well as a higher level of state anxiety.

Specifically, the study examined the effects of a high or low status interviewer upon one expressive measure of speech and upon relationship consequences for groups …

Modality Specific Predicate Usage And Imagery Vividness, Joann C. Russell

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Bancller and Grinder (1975, 1976) propose a model oE communication and change which is based on the assumption that the language used by an individual directly reflects the sensory nature of his conscious experience. A preference for some mode(s) over others for representation of experience is purportedly evidenced by relatively more frequent occurrence in the person's speech of predicates specific to the favored mode(s). Further, imagery is said to be more vivid in preferred representational systems.

The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between modality specific predicate usage and vividness of sensory imagery. Subjects were 42 undergraduate students …

Do Accountants Communicate?, Kay L. Storbakken

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Discrimination Learning Sets In Children, Sandra Harrell Fenner

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This study investigated the relationship between the formation of discrimination learning set and children's ability to use logical thinking as indicated by verbalization of the rule of the problem. Twenty-seven seven-year-olds and 27 nine-year-olds, all females, within the average IQ range, were presented four-trial object discrimination problems as a game. Each child was presented 20 problems per day for one to three days until she reached the criterion of two successive problems in which no error was made on trials 2, 3, and 4 of both problems. After every ten problems the experimenter asked the subject questions to determine whether …

A Comparison Of Groups' Judgments During The Screening Of Normally-Developing And Language-Impaired Children, Karen Louise Ruttledge

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The purpose of the present study was to determine whether classroom teachers, student clinicians, and public school speech- language pathologists judge child language performance differently when using personal criteria and when using selected criteria to screen child language performance.

The subjects in the present study were ten public school speech- language pathologists with one to thirteen years of experience, ten student clinicians with one to three semesters of supervised clinical practicum, and ten classroom teachers with one to six years of experience. Two videotapes of one-minute start/stop language samples of ten children, five of whom were language normal and five …

Antonio Callado's Reflections Of The Ball And Some Reflections On Its Translation, Harriet S. Mcclelland

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This thesis consists of a translation of Antonio Callado's Reflections of the Ball (Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1976) from Portuguese to English, an analysis of some of the problems involved in the translation process with proposed solutions to the specific problems of this work, and a critical analysis of some of the literary aspects of the book.

The following procedure was followed: (1) a first draft translation was made, and a native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese was consulted to see if the meaning was retained in the target language at all points; (2) then, the translation was gone …

The Relationship Of Conformity And Nonconformity In Children To Preference For And Achievement In Mathematics And Spelling., James Bruce Knudsen

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Language And Learning Settings : A Descriptive Analysis Of The Functions Of Language In Day Care Contexts, Peter Yuill Clark

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Fathers And Daughters In K̲I̲N̲G̲ L̲E̲A̲R̲ And The Romances, Margaret Sue Whinnery

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An Investigation Of The Utilization Of One-Minute Start-Stop Language Sampling, Catherine Maureen Spack

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