Table of Contents
Diglossia.--Linguistic diversity in South Asia.--The language factor in national development.--Background to second language problems.--Problems of teaching languages with diglossia.--Assumptions about nasals: a sample study in phonological universals.--Linguistic theory and language learning.--Baby talk in six languages.--Applied linguistics.--On sociolinguistically oriented language surveys.--National sociolinguistic profile formulas.--Sentence deviance in linguistics and language teaching.--St. Stefan of Perm and applied linguistics.--Language development.--Contrastive analysis and language development.--Contrasting patterns of literacy acquisition in a multilingual nation.--Absence of copula and the notion of simplicity: a study of normal speech, baby talk, foreigner talk, and pidgins.--A role of Arabic in Ethiopia: a sociolinguistic perspective.--Bibliography of Charles A. Ferguson's works, compiled by A. S. Dil (p. 313-327)