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Byrne, Brian – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
In open-ended and forced-choice situations, subjects were asked to interpret phrases containing superficially incompatible adjective pairs. The results demonstrate that English speakers implicitly understand proposed linguistic principles underlying prenominal adjective ordering. (SW)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Grammar, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Spilka, Irene V. – Meta, 1979
Reviews the grammatical, semantic, and stylistic difficulties in translating English passive constructions into French. (AM)
Descriptors: English, French, Grammar, Language Styles
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Napoli, Donna Jo – Journal of Linguistics, 1979
Examines reflexivization in Italian and demonstrates that the proposals that (1) reflexive pronouns and their antecedents must be clausemates, and (2) the specified subject and tensed-S conditions, cannot be maintained as universals. (AM)
Descriptors: Grammar, Italian, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory
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Milner, Jean-Claude – Langue Francaise, 1976
Discusses the referential meanings of nouns within discourse with emphasis on their anaphoric role from one phrase to another. (Text is in French.) (TL)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, French, Grammar
Rivara, Rene – Langues Modernes, 1976
Questions the thesis that the emphatic English "do" can only be analyzed in terms of discourse context, as opposed to sentence structure. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar, Intonation
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Hukari, Thomas E.; Levine, Robert D. – Journal of Linguistics, 1995
This article presents evidence supporting the syntactic nature of adjunct extraction in English and other languages, including the coextensiveness of adjunct and argument extraction and their parallelism with respect to strong/weak crossover effects. Also discussed is the challenge that binding domain effects pose for accounts of adjunct…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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Birner, Betty J. – Language, 1994
Presents a discourse-functional account of English inversion, based on an examination of a large corpus of naturally occurring tokens. It is argued that inversion serves an information-packaging function and that felicitous inversion depends on the relative discourse-familiarity of the information represented by the preposed and postposed…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Language Research, Language Usage
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Haskell, Todd R.; MacDonald, Maryellen C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
A number of studies have shown that structural factors play a much larger role than the linear order of words during the production of grammatical agreement. These findings have been used as evidence for a stage in the production process at which hierarchical relations between constituents have been established (a necessary precursor to…
Descriptors: Syntax, Verbs, Grammar, Language Processing
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Fedorenko, Evelina; Gibson, Edward; Rohde, Douglas – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
This paper reports the results of a dual-task experiment which investigates the nature of working memory resources used in sentence comprehension. Participants read sentences of varying syntactic complexity (containing subject-and object-extracted relative clauses) while remembering one or three nouns (similar to or dissimilar from the…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Sentence Structure, Computer Assisted Testing, Interaction
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Andrews, Richard; Torgerson, Carole; Beverton, Sue; Freeman, Allison; Locke, Terry; Low, Graham; Robinson, Alison; Zhu, Die – British Educational Research Journal, 2006
This article reports on the results of two international systematic research reviews which focus on different aspects of teaching grammar to improve the quality and accuracy of 5-16-year-olds' writing in English. The results show that there is little evidence to indicate that the teaching of formal grammar is effective; and that teaching…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Goodluck, Helen; And Others – 1989
A study investigated young children's knowledge of the constraint that prevents questioning from a position inside a temporal adjunct: i.e., knowledge of the ungrammaticality of a question such as "Who did Fred kiss Sue before hugging...?" Subjects were 30 children aged 3 to 5 years, who listened to stories accompanied by pictures and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Penelope, Julia – Papers in Linguistics: International Journal of Human Communication, 1981
The assumption that language is used solely to convey information with the maximum efficiency is refuted with examples of expository prose. Eight brief samples of expository prose are examined in order to demonstrate the use of syntactic euphemism to manipulate communication in complex and subtle ways. Syntactic euphemism involves the use of the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Expository Writing, Language Usage, Persuasive Discourse
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Nelson, Katherine – Cognitive Psychology, 1975
Transcripts of 24 spontaneous speech samples from 2 year old children are analyzed for use of nouns and pronouns in sentences. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Lexicology, Nouns
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Kremin, H.; Goldblum, M. C. – Linguistics, 1975
Patients with cortical lesions, both with or without aphasia, were asked to reconstruct sentences. It was found that syntactic comprehension deficits exist only in aphasics. Two groups are distinguishable, those with deficits due to problems of repetition and those with deficits due to problems of object recognition. (Text is in French.) (TL)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Language Handicaps, Language Research, Linguistic Performance
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Li, Charles N. – Language, 1975
A number of syntactic constructions in Mandarin Chinese are analyzed which, synchronically, are unrelated and highly irregular. However, all reflect a diachronic drift which has been operating in Mandarin Chinese, in the light of which the syntactic constructions can be viewed as structures in transition. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Theory
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