"The eighteen articles selected for this volume cover the period from 1959 to 1970."

Includes bibliographies.

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)