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MacWhinney, Brian; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Supports claim that linguistic and psycholinguistic accounts based on study of English may prove unreliable as guides to sentence processing in even closely related languages such as German and Italian. Results of a test of sentence interpretation indicate that English-speaking Americans rely overwhelmingly on word order, Germans rely on both…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, English, German
Taeschner, Traute; And Others – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
The purpose of this study was to attempt to verify the theory of Taeschner and Volterra (1976) that bilingual children pass through three distinct phases while becoming perfectly bilingual. The 12 subjects were English-Italian bilingual children between the ages of 1.6 and 4.6. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, Grammar
Serratrice, Ludovica; Sorace, Antonella; Paoli, Sandra – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
The findings from a number of recent studies indicate that, even in cases of successful bilingual first language acquisition, the possibility remains of a certain degree of crosslinguistic influence when the choice between syntactic options is affected by discourse pragmatics. In this study we focussed on the use of referring expressions, prime…
Descriptors: Nouns, Syntax, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition
Reinecke, John E., Comp.; And Others – 1975
This annotated bibliography of pidgin and creole languages is divided into seventeen major sections. They are: bibliographies; collective works; general and miscellaneous works; works concerning pidgins and creoles that are Italian-based, Portuguese-based, Brazilian Portuguese-based, Spanish-based, French-based, Dutch-based, English-based,…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Annotated Bibliographies, Creoles, Dutch
FAUSER, CHRISTL; STOLUROW, LAWRENCE M. – 1965
THIS WAS A COMPILATION OF ABSTRACTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSES WHICH WERE EITHER TOTALLY OR PARTIALLY PROGRAMED. THESE COURSES HAD ENGLISH EITHER AS THE TARGET OR AS THE STUDENT LANGUAGE. IN ADDITION TO PROGRAMS THAT WERE AVAILABLE, INFORMATION ABOUT CERTAIN PROGRAMS WHICH MIGHT LATER BE AVAILABLE WAS ALSO INCLUDED. THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, English, French, German

Johnston, Judith R.; Slobin, Dan I. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
The ability of children between the ages of two years and four years, eight months, to produce locative pre- or postpositions was investigated in English, Italian, Serbocroatian, and Turkish to discover universals of conceptual and communicative development. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Meloni, Christine Foster – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
This study documents the instances of code-switching and interference in the speech of a bilingual child living in Rome, Italy, with his American mother and Italian father. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Code Switching (Language)
De Fina, Anna – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1989
Reports the results of an analysis of conversations among bilingual adults designed to determine the nature of code switching. Categories for the analysis are proposed, syntactic constraints on code switching are discussed, and code switching as a conversational strategy is considered. (24 references) (CFM)
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English
Bloom, Paul – 1989
A discussion of young children's production of English utterances with missing constituents focuses on the omission of subjects. The theory that young children have different grammars from those of adults is disputed, and it is suggested that, instead, subjects are omitted due to performance factors. Processing limitations in child language are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar

Cecchetto, Vittorina; Stroinska, Magda – Language Sciences, 1996
Examines politeness strategies used in intellectual discourse, concentrating on reference forms in various languages and in particular on the phenomena of power and solidarity displayed through the use of pronouns. The article identifies the differences and potential source of interferences in the domain of reference forms. (27 references)…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis

Fernald, Anne; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Compares the prosodic modifications in mothers' and fathers' speech to preverbal infants in American and British English, French, German, Japanese, and Italian. Speech samples were instrumentally analyzed to measure mean fundamental frequency, variability, utterance, duration, and pause duration. (67 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English, French
Olivieri, Claude – Francais dans le Monde, 1993
In September 1992, France opened 104 high school subject-area classes taught in English, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. The experience of the first year of these "European sections" is examined, and the implications for change in the French education system are considered. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, English, Experimental Curriculum

Tardif, Twila; Shatz, Marilyn; Naigles, Letitia – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Looks at naturalistic samples of adult-to-child speech to determine whether variations in the input are consistent with reported variations in the proportions of nouns and verbs in children's early vocabularies. Naturalistic speech samples from English-, Italian-, and Mandarin-speaking children and their caregivers were examined. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Hyams, Nina – 1986
The distinction between core and peripheral grammar made in government-binding theory sheds light on some questions concerning the acquisition of the inflectional morphology of different languages. The schedule for acquisition of the inflectional system may be determined not by the learning of particular affixes but by whether inflection is a core…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar
Purbhoo, Mary; Shapson, Stan – 1974
This report describes the first year of a two-year experimental, transitional kindergarten program for children whose mother tongue is Italian. Begun in Toronto, Canada as the result of pressure from both the ethnic community and from educators, the program is designed to run for the two years of kindergarten (junior and senior). The bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, English, English (Second Language)