This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 49 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the relation of cognitive ability and receptive language ability in primary school children; (2) verbal cognition; (3) contextual methods of teaching vocabulary in grade 11; (4) the efficacy of letter cloze as a perceptual organizing technique; (5) verbal plurality and aspect; (6) structure building operations and word order; (7) individual differences in acquisition and use of English derivational morphology; (8) children's humorous language; (9) the evolution of brain lateralization and its implications for language; (10) phrase structure, subcategorization, and transformations in the English verb phrase; (11) categorization in phonology; (12) children's questions and the discovery of interrogative syntax; (13) case relations in generative grammar; (14) the influence of linguistic context on word recognition accuracy and miscues; (15) sentence bridging and reading proficiency; (16) the effects of set expectations on lexical access; (17) teaching linguistics to the adolescent student; and (18) grammars for the recognition of natural language. (FL)