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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 17, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Don Yoder, Monroe H. Fabian, Phares H. Hertzog, William A. Reagan, Claude Unger, Lester O. Troyer, John Eby Pfautz

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Far-From-Lonely Heart
• Almanac Album
• Some Moravian Paintings in London
• Snakelore in Pennsylvania German Folk Medicine
• The Blacksmith and his Tools
• "Shouting, Jumping Evangelicals"
• The Old Goschenhoppen Lutheran Burial Register, 1752-1772
• Personalia from the "Amerikanischer Correspondent"
• Regionalism Among the Holmes County Amish
• The Pennsylvania German Churches and Sects (1878)
• Notes and Documents: A Curious People (1877) ; Pokes and Tuts (1964)
• Feather Beds and Chaff Bags: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 6

The Temporal Reliability Of The Length-Complexity Index, Margaret C. Barlow

Masters Theses

No abstract provided by author.

Sherpa Dictionary, Luke Zylstra

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Some English Sentence Batteries, David D. Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 17, No. 1, Alta Schrock, Mac E. Barrick, Phares H. Hertzog, Ruth Hawthorne, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Robert Boyd, Don Yoder, Friedrich Krebs

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Council of the Alleghenies
• Lewis the Robber in Life and Legend
• Snakes and Snakelore of Pennsylvania
• The Folklore Repertory of a Third-Grade Class
• Weather Signs and Calendar Lore from the "Dumb Quarter"
• Hardships of Circuit-Rider Life on the Pennsylvania-Ohio Frontier
• Eighteenth-Century Emigration from the Duchy of Zweibrucken
• Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 5: The Pennsylvania Folk-Dance Tradition

Some Psycholinguistic Aspects Of Brôu Literacy Problems, Eugenia Johnston

Theses and Dissertations

Before literacy materials can be prepared for preliterate groups, the analyst must discover the native speaker's reactions (1) to the sounds of his language so that a psychophonemic orthography can be developed, and (2) to the structure of his language, so that teaching methods will build on these reactions and help the prospective reader learn more quickly and easily to read and write his language.

Problems include immediate constituents of vowel glides and consonant clusters, syllable stress, syllable division within words, punctuation signals, and tone designation. In the Brôu language the main problem was to ascertain whether Brôu intuitions would …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 16, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Arthur J. Lawton, Clarence Kulp Jr., Carter W. Craigie, Mabel Fritch, Edna Eby Heller, Sara Grey, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Ancient of Days - Plus Tax!
• Living History
• The Goschenhoppen Historians
• Folk Festival Program
• Festival Highlights
• The Tinsmith of Kutztown
• The Chaff Bag and its Preparation
• Traditional Favorites Go Modern
• Children's Games Among Lancaster County Mennonites
• Notes and Documents: Early American Humor in Philadelphia Jokebooks
• Numskull Tales in Cumberland County
• Contributors to this Issue
• Folklife Studies and American History
• Powwowing: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire #4

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 16, No. 3, Lewis Edgar Riegel, Nancy J. Mcfall, Ruth M. Home, Don Yoder, Jacob Bishop Crist, Susan R. Severs, Abraham R. Horne

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Reminiscences of a Boyhood in Reading, 1883-1890
• Preserving York's Architectural Heritage
• Jordan Museum of the Twenty
• Pennsylvania Broadsides: II
• Memoirs of a Lutheran Minister, 1850-1881
• Notes and Documents: Nicknames from a Mennonite Family
• The Crafts at Newport
• Anglicizing the Pennsylvania Dutch, 1966 and 1875
• Nicknames: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire #3

Transformational Paradigms Of Some Cocopa Sentence Types, Carole C. Nevers

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Pronominal Affixes To The Cocopa Verb, Tom Nevers

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

87 Faces Of The English Clause, Richard S. Pittman, David D. Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction, "Nguyen Dang Liem, in his "Contrastive Analysis of English and Vietnamese," Vol. 1 (Canberra, 1966), gives a very useful table (page 47) of 87 English clause types. This is a review and commentary on that chart, with two proposals: 1) that all of the types be derived from one sentence -- "They gave him the presidency" -- rather than from several, as in Liem's original formulation; and 2) that the relationships between the major types be described by means of a two-branched tree."

Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 11 (1967)

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Shoshone Phonemes, Wesley L. Kosin

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

In 1970 a supplement to this article was published. The supplement can be accessed at commons.und.edu/sil-work-papers/vol14/iss1/8/

An Analysis By Levels, David D. Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

Hierarchical analysis of a short English text, illustrating levels of analysis from discourse down to word level in a grammatical hierarchy, and from utterance down to phoneme in a phonological hierarchy.

Method For Writing Articles, Marjorie Davis

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

A Phonological Reconstruction Of Proto Central North Bahnaric, Kenneth D. Smith

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "Because of unresolved phonological problems in Sedang phonemics (Smith, 1967a) and the need to clarify them before literacy materials could be prepared, the author undertook a study of Sedang dialects (1967b, 1967c). Though the phonological problems were resolved in this latter study, other problems became evident in the relations between Kontum languages. The present study was undertaken in an attempt to understand more fully the relationships between these languages. The study also complements similar studies in other areas of Viet Nam; namely: Proto-East-Katuic (D. M. Thomas, 1967), Proto-Mnong (Blood, 1966); and Proto-Chamic, a Malayo-Polynesian language (Lee, 1966)."

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 16, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Don Yoder, Friedrich Krebs, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Amos Long Jr.

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Christmas - Back Along
• Pennsylvania Broadsides: I
• New Materials on 18th-Century Emigration from Wurttemberg
• More Tramp Tales
• Veterinary and Household Recipes from West Cocalico
• The Pennsylvania Sketchbooks of Charles Lesueur
• The Woodshed
• Notes and Documents: Articles on the Amish from the "Reformirte Kirchenzeitung" (1860)
• Prayers, Graces and Home Devotions: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire #2

Plural Affixes To The Cocopa Verb, Tom Nevers

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Basic Tenets Of Tagmemics, David D. Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Stratifications Reflected In Truck Bumper Slogans In Peru, Loraine I. Bridgeman

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Handling Lexical Translation Problems: A Set Of Procedures, Loraine I. Bridgeman

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "It is the purpose of this paper to outline a set of procedures for determining which of the generally accepted devices for introducing new concepts into receptor languages would most economically stimulate semantic change in any given situation. That is, the procedures are an attempt to enable a translator initiating work in a new language to predict with a certain degree of accuracy the device appropriate to a given situation and the normal semantic load assignable to it. Devices discussed are APPROXIMATION, including the use of related items, metaphors and similes; CREATION, including annalogical innovations of similes …

Some Cocopa Clause Batteries, Carole C. Nevers

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Kalam Verb Phrases, Lyle Scholtz

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

A Note On Deep (Emic) Structure In Linguistics, David D. Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 16, No. 1, George Peterson Iii, William Hannan, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Berton E. Beck, Jacob G. Shively, Lester Breininger, Friedrich Krebs, Don Yoder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Indian Readers and Healers by Prayer
• Bayard Taylor's Portrait of Pennsylvania Quakerism
• Gypsy Stories from the Swatara Valley
• Stump-Pulling
• Occult Tales from Union County
• Beekeeping and Bee Lore in Pennsylvania
• New Materials on the 18th Century Emigration from the Speyer State Archives
• The Snake-Bitten Dutchman
• Notes and Documents: A Letter to Germany (1806) ; Midwestern Diary of Joel Vale Garretson (1863-1864)
• Questionnaire on Hominy

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 15, No. 4, Constantine Kermes, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Henry Glassie, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Tyrone Power

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Amish Album
• Look Back, Once!
• The Pennsylvania Barn in the South: Part II
• Folk Festival Program
• Contributors to this Issue
• Festival Highlights
• Twenty Questions on Powwowing
• Moon-Signs in Cumberland County
• Reminiscences of "Des Dumm Fattel"
• Notes and Documents: Two Documents from the First World War
• The Dutch and Irish Colonies of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 15, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Frank Brown, Don Yoder, Amos Long Jr., Marion Ball Wilson, Fritz Braun

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Stitching for Pretty
• New Light on "Mountain Mary"
• The Newspaper and Folklife Studies
• Pennsylvania Limekilns
• Mennonite Maids
• The Eighteenth-Century Emigration from the Palatinate: New Documentation

05 Holau, The Voyage Of Mr. Boe, Mark Etua, Pita Sharples, Priscilla Taulupo, Bill Donner

Sikaiana Oral Stories

This is the story of the last (or one of the last) voyages (holau) from Sikaiana. It was recorded by Mark Etua as part of linguistic research done by Peter Sharples among the Sikaiana. The transcription into the Sikaiana language was done by Priscilla Taulupo and the rough translation by Bill Donner (sorry for any errors).

Traditionally, Sikaiana people were master voyagers, capable of traveling hundreds of kilometers. This voyage was probably conducted in the 1920s by a trader for Lever Brothers in his dinghy when he was short of supplies. He had several Sikaiana people help, including …

04 Taupule, A Woman From Tuvalu, Johnson Siota, Pita Sharples Dr, Priscilla Taulupo, Bill Donner

Sikaiana Oral Stories

This recording was made by Johnson Siota was part of linguistic research conducted by Dr. Pita Sharples among the Sikaiana people of the Solomon Islands n the 1960s. The transcription in Sikaiana is by Priscilla Taulupo and the rough translation is by Bill Donner. The story of Taupule was well known to Sikaiana people during my stays in the 1980s on Sikaiana. She came from the Tuvalu and was dropped off on Sikaiana by a trader during her pregnancy, sometime in the late 1800s. She warned traders that life would change from contact with Europeans. her descendants felt a certain …

Notes On Preparation Of Linguistic Papers For Publication, Richard S. Pittman

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.