SUhfMARYComposite diagrams of spectra and cospectra were constructed from eight cases of velocity Component and temperature measurements made over the water by an acoustic anemometer. Their universal form is discussed.
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Language Development of a Garo and English Speaking ChildToward the end of October, 1954, I arrived with my wife and small son Stephen in the Garo Hills district of Assam, India, where we were to spend most of the next two years making a social anthropological study of the Garo.l These people, one of India's tribal populations, number a quarter of a million and speak a language belonging to the Bodo group of Tibeto-Burman.2 When we arrived, Stephen (who was born on the last day of May, 1953), was one year and four months old and was just beginning to attach meanings consistently to some of the vocal activity that he had been emitting in profusion for many months. His first few words were English, but he immediately came into regular contact with Garo speakers and soon added Garo words to his vocabulary; in fact, for the greater part of the time we were there, his Garo was significantly more fluent than his English. Since there have been few studies of child language in non-Indo-European languages, I kept a record of my son's linguistic development and have assembled the results here.The study of a child's speech is a delightful one, not the least satisfying aspect being the frequent enjoyment that one's informant shows in having so much attention paid to him by his father. Nevertheless, it is beset with difficulties that never arise in the study of adult language. Children won't repeat themselves the way good adult informants can be persuaded to do. It is next to impossible to try to compare minimal pairs directly, both because of the poverty of the children's vocabulary and because of the difficulty in getting them to repeat forms. Moreover, children speak with less precision and much less consistency than adults. With wide variation I This paper is an expanded and revised version of one read at the 1958 summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. The opportunity to work in the Garo Hills was provided by a fellowship from the Board of Overseas Training and Research of the Ford Foundation.
Nursery rhymes in many languages consist of verses of four lines, and each line has four major "beats." The beats are spaced evenly in time and are u s u d y marked by syUables with stress or with s m e other phonological distinction tbd sets them offrom surrounding syUablss, but rests occur in a few beat positdons. Each language has its own spccid charactwktics within this general fiattern, but the similarilks between languages seem greatsr for nursery rhymcs than for more elaborate forms of poetry. It seems di&dt to athdbute the crosslinguistic sima7adtdes to anything except our common humanity.
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