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Wolfram, Walt; Christian, Donna – 1979
Many questions accompany the recognition of different dialects, including questions concerning the origin of the speaker, the reasons why people speak the way they do, and which way of speaking is correct. Stronq feelings may accompany the recognition of dialects, and assessments and classifications of people may be made based on how they speak.…
Descriptors: Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns
Lifshitz, Paltiel; Shulman, Gary M. – 1980
In an experiment studying the relationship between reciprocity and compensation in dyadic communication, 96 male college students were videotaped during hypothetical problem solving situations. An attitude scale was used to manipulate subjects' impressions of mutual similarity. Time was used to test development in the dependent variables…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Communication Research, Congruence (Psychology)
Terrebonne, Robert A. – 1973
This variable rule analysis of the indefinite article "an" was done by means of a computer program developed by H. Cedergren and D. Sankoff of Montreal. The data was collected from 45-minute interviews with three different groups of college students essentially alike in age: (1) 13 whites from Louisiana, (2) 12 blacks from southwestern Ohio, and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Black Dialects, Computer Programs, Descriptive Linguistics
Folb, Edith A. – 1972
A current vocabulary of argot terms and meanings was collected from a Black male control group in the South Central Los Angeles ghetto. This lexicon was used to elicit and compare responses from 5 male groups of youths between 15 and 20 years old. Two of the groups consisted of lower class blacks separated geographically. The other groups were…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Comparative Analysis, Dialect Studies, Disadvantaged Youth

McCallum, Karin; Dickerson, Jo Ann – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1985
Recounts students' reactions to the videotaping of their speeches in three speech communication classes. Shows how the students found the taping experience valuable. (EL)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Skills, Educational Research, Higher Education

Hodne, Barbara D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
Offers reasons and suggestions for involving Asian immigrant college students in classroom talk (by initiating informal conversations, involving more students in discussions, and structuring small-group communication). Cautions against pressuring them to adopt American speech habits that may threaten their Asian-language identities. Includes…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Students
Maynard, Senko K. – 1986
The casual conversation of six pairs of Japanese and six pairs of American colleges students was analyzed for evidence of two related aspects of conversation management: the linguistic characteristics of utterance units and back-channel strategies. Utterance units are defined as those occurring between identifiable pauses or breaks in tempo.…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, English
Pahlsson, Christer – 1984
A study of the factors affecting the burring of word-initial /r/ in a small English village found variability in the temporal, spatial, social, sexual, and phonic aspects of usage. Six categories of burrers are distinguished according to their speech habits. The evidence points to an ongoing socially and phonetically conditioned change in the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Community Characteristics, Diachronic Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Tollefson, James W. – 1976
Investigators agree that mothers employ a variety of request forms and that children seem to be able to respond to these forms with a remarkable degree of accuracy. It is suggested that the speech of mothers to their children is filled with requests which are really not requests at all. It is shown that many of what appear to be adult requests to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
De Villiers, Peter A.; De Villiers, Jill G. – 1979
This investigation studied the development of the form and function of negative sentences, and how it relates to the input on negation that children receive from their parents. The data came from three children: two from a previous study (Bellugi) and one the son of the investigators. A detailed analysis was carried out of the syntactic form and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Function Words, Language Acquisition
Greenfield, Patricia; Dent, Cathy – 1979
This study considers the interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors (social and cognitive) in children's production of coordinate structures involving conjunction reduction. Two aspects of pragmatic context were considered: (1) the pattern of uncertainty or redundancy in a complex action sequence, and (2) the perceptual grouping of objects…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development, Conjunctions
MURPHY, HELEN A. – 1965
THE PROBLEMS EXAMINED IN THIS STUDY WERE (1) THE RELATIONSHIP OF PERCEPTION OF WORD ELEMENTS TO SIGHT VOCABULARY GROWTH, (2) THE EFFECT OF EARLY TEACHING OF A SPEECH-BASED PHONICS PROGRAM ON READING ACHIEVEMENT, AND (3) THE VALUE OF WRITING EMPHASIS IN THE SPEECH-BASED PHONICS PROGRAM. THREE READING PROGRAMS WERE INCLUDED IN THE STUDY, EACH USED…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
Robertson, William J.; Garner, Jerry F. – 1970
Although there is a proliferation of educational programs aimed at improving language, there have been only meager attempts to produce measures for diagnostic and evaluative purposes. The project herein described is an attempt to devise a test that could be used: (1) to identify specific speech deviations of black ghetto students in order that…
Descriptors: Black Students, Diagnostic Tests, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Acquisition
Leclercq, Janine, Comp. – 1966
These transcriptions of children living in a suburb of Paris represent and illustrate linguistic behavior and interests of the average nine-year-old French child. Seventy-nine children in groups of three were recorded in 30-minute periods of free conversation and 10-minute periods of play. Analysis reveals more than 30 centers of interest which…
Descriptors: Child Language, Childhood Interests, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
Lazcano, Mathilda, Comp.; Sala, Rafael, Ed. – 1969
This is the first of five volumes of recorded, transcribed conversation of 150 Spanish children from Madrid. Some 25 hours of normal, unrehearsed conversation serve as a linguistic corpus illustrative of vocabulary development at a specific age level. Half-hour recording sessions were made in groups of three, consisting of boys or girls from the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Fluency, Language Patterns, Language Research