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Sobin, Nicholas – 1977
This paper investigates the second language acquisition of interrogative-word questions in English. It is shown that the data from some bilingual English speakers at Pan American University are comparable to the data noted by others for both second and first language acquisition of interrogative word questions. In particular, interrogative-word…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Keenan, Elinor Ochs; And Others – 1976
Two major strategies for linguistically encoding an idea or proposition are suggested. The first strategy involves encoding an idea in the space of a single utterance, while the second strategy conveys the proposition through a sequence of two or more utterances. The tendency has been to focus on discourse as a composite of sentences (the first…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis
Bowerman, Melissa – 1977
The acquisition of rules for formulating causative verbs was studied with children over a period of a few years. Most of the data is based on the spontaneous speech of the author's two daughters, from age 2;6 to 6;2 and from age 2;4 to 3;11. It was hypothesized that there are at least two prerequisites for the child's formulation of a general rule…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
van Oirsouw, Robert R. – 1978
The source of syntactic ambiguity and facts concerning the resolution of such ambiguity are discussed in this paper. The attitude of qenerative linguists towards ambiguity is examined, and a working distinction is drawn between vaqueness and ambiguity. The consequences of this distinction are then examined for syntactic ambiguity and an ordering…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Grammar
Py, Bernard – 1972
A progress report is presented of a study which applies a system of generative grammar to error analysis. The objective of the study was to reconstruct the grammar of students' interlanguage, using a systematic analysis of errors. (Interlanguage refers to the linguistic competence of a student who possesses a relatively systematic body of rules,…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, French, Generative Grammar
Rekart, Deborah M. – 1978
This paper examines three ways in which the Spanish imperfect and preterite are theoretically conceptualized and how such conceptions are realized practically in elementary Spanish textbooks. An attempt is made to present the three approaches as constituting a theoretical progression rather than viewing them as isolated treatments of the same…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Higher Education, Language Instruction
VALDMAN, ALBERT – 1967
THIS PAPER DISCUSSES THE SELECTION OF A PEDAGOGICAL NORM FOR FRENCH INTERROGATIVE STRUCTURES. SINCE THIS AREA OF FRENCH GRAMMAR IS PARTICULARLY POLYMORPHOUS, OBJECTIVE CRITERIA ARE SET UP TO MAKE THE SELECTION--FREQUENCY, COMPLEXITY, AND EXTENSIVITY. BECAUSE "EST-CE QUE" CAN BE APPLIED WITHOUT EXCEPTION TO ALL TYPES OF KERNEL SENTENCES, IT WAS…
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Kernel Sentences, Language Instruction
HUNT, KELLOGG W.; AND OTHERS – 1968
THE PURPOSES OF THIS EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED IN THE TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE (1) TO STUDY DIFFERENCES IN SENTENCE STRUCTURES AMONG STUDENTS VARYING IN CHRONOLOGICAL MATURITY AND MENTAL ABILITY WITHIN GRADES 4, 6, 8, 10, AND 12, AND (2) TO SEE IF AN INSTRUMENT COULD BE DEVISED TO EFFICIENTLY MEASURE SYNTACTIC MATURITY. THE INSTRUMENT…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, High Achievement
Carpenter, Patricia A.; Just, Marcel Adam – 1975
This research explored the fundamental processes involved in comprehending linguistic material: the duration of the process, the sequence of processes, and the sources of errors. One project examined the comprehension of affirmative and negative sentences that are read and verified with respect to a picture. A model developed to account for the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Skills, Language Tests
Tyack, Dorothy – 1972
This paper discusses Lee and Canter's procedure for assessing child language development as an example of how psycholinguistics is beginning to enter the language clinic. The procedure includes recording and transcribing examples of children's sentences, then scoring them to yield a Developmental Sentence Score (DDS). This procedure was compared…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Child Language, Delayed Speech, Language Ability
Patterson, Betty Soon Ju – 1974
This paper proposes that some but not all "I" causatives in Korean are analyzable, and argues that case markers in Korean are not merely surface phenomena, but are semantically and syntactically significant. The types of Korean causatives are introduced, as well as the major problems involved in their analysis. Previous generative works…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Ofsa, William John – 1974
This study sought to broaden the scope of teacher training in English by incorporating an experimental design in practice teaching. The control group, 20 ninth graders whose IQ's averaged 95, studied narrative-descriptive writing and transformational grammar, writing the same number of compositions as the two experimental groups. The low…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, English Education
Feider, Helga – 1969
To determine the principal differences in syntactic structure between spoken and written American English, a corpus of the spoken (800 sentences) and written (280 sentences) utterances of six graduate students was described in terms of a transformational generative grammar. These utterances were used as a basis for a two-part grammar: (1) a source…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar
Golub, Lester S.; Frederick, Wayne C. – 1970
Three papers, based on a study done with 160 Wisconsin fourth- and sixth-graders, are presented in an attempt to contribute to the psycholinguistic information needed in developing elementary English language learning programs. The first paper, "A Linguistic Ability Test for Elementary Grades," discusses a written test made up of 15 linguistic…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Graphemes, Intermediate Grades
Mellon, John C. – 1969
In an epilogue to the 1967 research report, "Transformational Sentence-Combining" (See ED 018 405.), John Mellon considers the significance of the sentence-combining experience and answers the charges of critics--Wayne O'Neil, James Moffett, and Francis Christensen--regarding his original research findings. Mellon points out, for example, that…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, English Instruction, Language Fluency
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