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Mauner, Gail; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Reports a reanalysis of the data on surface and deep anaphors reported by Tanenhaus and Carlson and two experiments based on the reanalysis. The parallelism effects for deep anaphors were eliminated following short passives but not full passives. The results support the claim that deep and surface anaphors access different types of…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Clues, Language Processing, Language Research
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Shatz, Marilyn; Ebeling, Karen – Journal of Child Language, 1991
Examines four kinds of language learning-related behaviors (LLRBs) in the home conversations of 6 English children studied for 6 months from age 2.6 years. The role of LLRBs in frequency and range and in the frequency of grammatical productions during spontaneous revisions is addressed. (44 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Sanders, Ruth – CALICO Journal, 1991
A typology for analyzing grammatical errors in student-written German compositions is presented and approaches to providing helpful error messages to student users of a parser-based writing aid are discussed. (19 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Error Analysis (Language), German, Grammar
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Jang, Youngjun; Han, Ho – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 1999
Explores the acquisition process of relative clauses in Japanese and Korean. Examines the issue of whether Korean "kes" and Japanese "no" found in Korean and Japanese relative clauses are each a complementizer or a head noun.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Japanese, Korean
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Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Alioto, Anthony – Journal of Child Language, 1995
This study used three experiments to study whether infant-directed (ID) or adult-directed (AD) speech facilitated the learning of Chinese vocabulary by adults whose native language was English and who had had no prior knowledge of Chinese. Results indicate that ID speech may play a pivotal role in early lexical acquisition. (51 references)…
Descriptors: College Students, Infants, Intonation, Mandarin Chinese
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Lidz, Jeffrey; Waxman, Sandra – Cognition, 2004
Lidz, Waxman, and Freedman [Lidz, J., Waxman, S., & Freedman, J. (2003). What infants know about syntax but couldn't have learned: Evidence for syntactic structure at 18-months. "Cognition," 89, B65-B73.] argue that acquisition of the syntactic and semantic properties of anaphoric one in English relies on innate knowledge within the learner.…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Stimuli, Infants
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Keen, John – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2004
This article describes an investigation based on a corpus of original and redrafted versions of extracts from reflective narratives by 15-year-old secondary school students in the UK. It builds on the established research on sentence combining with respect to students' writing development. The findings are discussed in relation to the use of…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Secondary School Students, Grammar, Student Attitudes
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Naigles, Letitia R.; Lehrer, Nadine – Journal of Child Language, 2002
This research investigates language-general and language-specific properties of the acquisition of argument structure. Ten French preschoolers enacted forty sentences containing motion verbs; sixteen sentences were ungrammatical in that the syntactic frame was incompatible with the standard argument structure for the verb (e.g. *"Le tigre va le…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, French, Preschool Children, Sentences
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Diane C. Lillo-Martin; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1992
Testing of deaf readers' comprehension of relative clause structures in written English, signed English, and American Sign Language suggests that a specific syntactic disability does not differentiate good from poor deaf readers, but rather a processing deficit may underlie poor readers' comprehension difficulties. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, English, Phrase Structure
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Nunes-Harwitt, Arthur – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2006
Computer algebra systems are being used more and more frequently in mathematics courses of all levels. For instructors to use these systems effectively, they need to have an idea of how the systems work. To illuminate the mechanics, the implementation of a simple computer algebra system will be described. Further, if instructors understand the…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Instructional Improvement
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Watzinger-Tharp, Johanna – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2006
This article examines variant word order in subordinate clauses, in particular clauses introduced with "weil" in spoken discourse. Current studies point to discourse-pragmatic conditions that guide the placement of the verb in second or final clause position. An analysis of empirical speech data shows that German speakers use both V2 and VF in…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Teaching Methods, Class Activities, Word Order
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In, Fan-yu – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2008
Basic English Writing (BEW) courses have been part of English learning curricula in many universities. Some research has been conducted to investigate various class designs for English language courses. However, class designs for English writing are not yet abundantly developed to provide more experimental results. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Basic Writing, College Seniors
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak – CUHK Papers in Linguistics, 1989
Assuming the relevance of the linear precedence to the scope interpretation of adult Mandarin, this study investigated the development of this principle in Mandarin-speaking children, with a view to providing a basis for further study of parametric variation. Three kinds of sentences were examined, all of which contained mutually commanding…
Descriptors: Children, Interviews, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Wolfram, Walt – 1992
A construction occurring in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is examined: NPi "call" NPi V"-ing", as in "the woman call herself working." First, a number of reasons that such a form might be overlooked or dismissed as an AAVE dialect form are outlined. Then the sociolinguistic method is applied to the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialects, Grammar, Language Patterns
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Fries, Peter H. – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1972
The implications of the properties of certain recursive rules are explored. It is concluded that (a) no completely coherent system of rules could allow perniciously recursive rules, and (b) certain constructions of English can only be described using perniciously recursive rules. See FL 508 197 for availability. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: English, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure
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