This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 27 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) instructional strategies in teaching synonyms, antonyms, classification, paraphrasing, and locating a main idea; (2) formal aspects of metaphor; (3) linguistic and logical training; (4) comprehension of explicit and implicit conjunction; (5) linguistic cohesion in texts; (6) the routinization of gender presuppositions in ordinary language; (7) identification and discrimination of synthetic speech sounds by children with varying phonics skills; (8) online processing of the figurative and literal meanings of metaphorical sentences; (9) children's use of plural allomorphs in familiar and unfamiliar settings; (10) the computer in literary and linguistic studies; (11) cohesion in student narratives; (12) children's production and perception of English voiceless fricatives; (13) the development of word meaning in the school aged child; (14) moric phonology; (15) semantic and stylistic variations in language on perceptions of social influence characteristics; and (16) two methodologies for enhancing the syntactic maturity of community college students. (HOD)