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Hieke, A. E. – 1998
Comparative statistical data are presented on speech dynamic (as contrasted with lexical and rhetorical) aspects of major speech styles. Representative samples of story retelling, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and panel discussions serve to determine posited differences between casual and careful speech. Data are drawn from 15,393…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Comparative Analysis, Interviews, Language Patterns
Minami, Masahiko – 1994
Conversations between mothers and children from three different cultural groups were analyzed to determine culturally preferred narrative elicitation patterns. The three groups included Japanese-speaking mother-child pairs living in Japan, Japanese-speaking, mother-child pairs living in the United States, and English-speaking Canadian mother-child…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Kurth, Ruth Justine; Kurth, Lila Mae – 1986
A study compared mothers' and fathers' speech patterns when speaking to preschool children, particularly utterance length, sentence types, and word frequencies. All of the children attended a nursery school with a student population of 136 in a large urban area in the Southwest. Volunteer subjects, 28 mothers and 28 fathers of 28 children who…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Developmental Stages, Fathers
Garnica, Olga Kaunoff – 1977
This study investigated the linguistic characteristics of speech addressed to the child and the features of the verbal environment critical for learning language. The study focused on the prosodic and paralinguistic features of adult speech to the young child. Adult speech directed to children was compared to other kinds of systematic speech…
Descriptors: Child Language, Interaction Process Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Kreidler, Charles W. – 1978
The reduction of existing lexical items to shorter forms has generally been discussed under the headings of "acronyms,""back-formations," and "clippings." Two kinds of acronym are found, the letter-naming type (e.g. FBI, YMCA) and the letter-sounding type (e.g. UNESCO, CARE). The latter type must be pronounceable within the phonotactic norms of…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, English, Generative Phonology, Language Patterns
Liska, Jo; And Others – 1980
Rating scales were developed and applied to evaluate deferential/nondeferential language users. Participants were 1,262 college students in small discussion groups containing two experimenter's confederates who used either deferential or nondeferential language. The characteristics of deferential language users were questioning/tentative behavior,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Communication Research, Communication Skills
Richards, Meredith Martin – 1978
The recent experimental literature on the acquisition of English antonyms is reviewed, with special reference to the position of Eve Clark and the particular ontogenetic assumptions her position entails. The assumptions examined are: (1) in a hierarchically organized lexical domain, the order of acquisition appears to be from the top of the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation
KEAN, JOHN M. – 1967
A STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO EXAMINE THE LINGUISTICS STRUCTURE OF SECOND- AND FIFTH-GRADE TEACHERS' CLASSROOM LANGUAGE USING PROCEDURES THAT HAVE BEEN APPLIED IN RECENT STUDIES OF CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE (LOBAN, 1963 "THE LANGUAGE OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN" ED 001 875). TEN SECOND-GRADE AND 11 FIFTH-GRADE TEACHERS IN A LARGE, SUBURBAN, PUBLIC SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Elementary School Teachers, English
Andersson, Theodore – The Florida FL Reporter
This paper reports on a study of bilingual education (schooling using both English and Spanish as media of instruction) by staff from the University of Texas and 30 bilingual elementary-school teachers from 13 Texas school systems. There was wide agreement on basic principles of bilingual education: that every child should be educated to his full…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingualism, Child Language
Scrivner, Wilma M. – 1969
Because of the vast differences between the ghetto child and the middle class child in home environment, parental models, language development, and the ability and desire to communicate, an elementary school language program which will educate both must differ radically from traditional orientations and practices. Such a program should provide the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Language Ability
Hubbell, Robert Denton – 1969
Sixteen middle class, four-person families were used in a study comparing communicative behavior of parents interacting with a younger child (3 or 4 years old) whose language skills were developing, and with an older child (6 or 7 years old) whose basic language skills were established. Combinations of sex of siblings and sibling position were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Family Relationship, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
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Delattre, Pierre – The French Review, 1966
This study of 10 intonation curves, representative of speech patterns in French, entails spectrographic analysis of the variations of fundamental frequency, intensity, and duration. Discriminatory auditory tests are based on semantic oppositions caused by single intonation contrasts. The seven distinctive classes called "intonemes" are: (1) minor…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Distinctive Features (Language), French
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Stratta, Leslie, Ed. – English in Education, 1972
Reflecting the increasing interest in language by teachers of English, articles in this collection: (1) describe and attempt to justify the exploration of living language as it is actually used--"Learning to Evaluate the Spoken Word" by M. C. Dobson, "Exploring the Language of Persuasion" by Sandra Williams, and "Language at Work" by J. H. G.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Language Arts
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Jeremiah, Milford A. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1987
Analysis of essays by Black students in an urban community college demonstrates that some errors in adult Black students' writing cannot be analyzed merely within the traditional hierarchy of rules for writing. Consideration of sociological factors is germane to an evaluation of students' writing ability. (BJV)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Tahta, Sonia; And Others – Language and Speech, 1981
Examines predictors of accent transfer from L1 to L2 in a group whose acquisition of English as a second language had begun at ages ranging from 6 to 15 plus. Discusses effects of age on L2 acquisition, adding that the only other strong factor was whether L2 was used in the home. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Development, Children
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