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An analysis of part-of-speech membership was made utilizing certain mechanisms that have been proposed to explain the nature of word classes. It was proposed that words of the same form class constitute "verbal habit families" on the basis of either a common grammatical meaning response, a common affix, or a common label (e.g., "verb"). One implication of this model was that sentences may be regarded as sequences of grammatical habit families. Three experiments tested two derivations from the model. Experiments one and two indicated that, under certain circumstances, words classified as verbs do indeed constitute a word response class. Experiment three tested the hypothesis that a novel word will gain verb properties by being paired with other verbs. The results of this experiment indicated that the greater the number of times a nonsense syllable was paired with verbs, the less often it was used as a verb in a sentence completion task. This result, contradictory to the hypothesis, did not appear incompatible with the model developed, but further research is needed for an adequate evaluation. (Author/LH)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert