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Elliott, Dale E.; And Others – 1969
This volume of working papers includes seven papers discussing current theory and research in linguistics, phonetics, semantics, and syntax. The following titles are in the collection: "'Do' from 'Occur',""The Syntax of the Verb 'Happen',""Subjects and Agents,""Modal Auxiliaries in Infinitive Clauses in English,""Some Problems in the Description…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, English
Longacre, Robert E. – 1972
This volume accompanies and illustrates "Hierarchy and Universality of Discourse Constituents in New Guinea Languages: Discussion" (FL 003 513), which reports on research carried out in New Guinea and surrounding areas. This volume provides sample texts, over and beyond the fragmentary examples given in the discussion text. The examples…
Descriptors: Austro Asiatic Languages, Calculus, Classification, Deep Structure
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Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – 1976
This collection includes twenty-one papers, a book review, and a bibliography of English-Polish contrastive studies in Poland, and is the fifth volume resulting from the Polish-English Contrastive Project. The overall purpose of the project is to prepare a Polish-English contrastive grammar and to develop pedagogical materials. Topics covered in…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Interference (Language)
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Ard, Josh; Gass, Susan M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
Data from responses to a grammaticality judgement test by 26 learners of English as a second language at two proficiency levels were used to investigate syntactic acquisition. Four syntactic structures were examined. Results suggest that less proficient subjects use syntactic strategies, while more proficient learners use semantic-based…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammatical Acceptability, Higher Education, Interlanguage
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Landsmann, Liliana Tolchinsky; Levin, Iris – Journal of Child Language, 1987
When Israeli four- to six-year-olds (N=120) wrote pairs of nouns sharing a syllable and sentences sharing either mainly nouns or mainly verbs, analysis indicated that the older the children, the more their invented writing reflected common linguistic elements and length of utterance. Nouns were represented in children's written productions earlier…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Deep Structure, Hebrew
Nicol, Janet L., Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers presents research on language processing among second language learners and bilinguals. The nine papers include the following: (1) "The Bilingual's Language Modes" (Francois Grosjean); (2) "The Voicing Contrast in English and Spanish: The Relationship between Perception and Production" (Mary L. Zampini…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Dictionaries
Kilpatrick, Wendy Montanari – 2000
This brief asks the question of what happens if the instructor isolates verbs and uses them in lesson plans for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students at the beginning and intermediate levels. The discussion is based on the experiences of one ESL teacher who found that the most pressing practical need of her students was a better command of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen – Language Learning, 1997
Examines the emergence of the present perfect in the interlanguage of instructed adult learners of English as a Second Language. Findings indicate that adding a new inflection in the tense/aspect system requires establishing new form-meaning associations as well as revising existing ones. (44 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Associative Learning, English (Second Language)
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Robinson, Peter – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
Examines the extent to which Japanese learners of English as a Second Language acquired a rule regulating the argument structure frames of novel English verbs after exposure to grammatical examples of sentences containing the verbs. Results showed significant differences in the extent of learning, with the focus-on-form conditions outperforming…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Research, Cognitive Processes, College Students
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Olshtain, Elite – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
Reports on studies focusing on individual attrition of English as a Second Language in an environment where Hebrew is the dominant language. Age, sociolinguistic features, input variables, and linguistic variables are discussed as well as major trends of change in language use that identify a limited reversal of the acquisition process. 29…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Culture Contact, English (Second Language)
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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Reynolds, Dudley W. – TESOL Quarterly, 1995
Reports on a study of adult learners' use of the simple past tense that showed that past tense acquisition occurs in stages determined by the lexical aspects of verbs. The article also describes a pedagogical approach for increasing accurate past tense use through contextualized examples in authentic texts and focused noticing exercises. (Contains…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adult Education, English (Second Language)
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Herman, Rebecca L.; Flanigan, Beverly Olson – TESL Canada Journal, 1995
Elementary school students (n=11) were pretested and then given daily formal instruction for 2 weeks in use of past tense and plural noun forms and then posttested. A significant difference was found between these students and control group in detection and correction of noun plural forms, but not in similar test of past tense forms. (49…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communicative Competence (Languages), Control Groups, Elementary School Students
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Berman, Ruth A.; Nir-Sagiv, Bracha – Journal of Child Language, 2004
The paper examines two types of texts, personal experience narratives and expository discussions, dealing with the shared theme of interpersonal conflict. Both were produced by the same 80 subjects, participants in a crosslinguistic study on developing literacy: gradeschoolers aged 9;0 to 10;0, twelve-to-thirteen-year-old junior high school…
Descriptors: Age, Verbs, Grammar, Discourse Analysis
Pennington, Martha C., Ed. – 1995
This book includes 85 ideas for the teaching of grammar, contributed by teachers of English as a Second Language from varied countries. The ideas are organized in 10 sections that include specific aspects of grammar and grammar topics at the discourse level. These include: noun phrases and clauses (adjectives and nouns, articles, subject-verb…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
University of Trondheim Working Papers in Linguistics, 1993
Five papers on African linguistics are presented. "Observations on Some Derivational Affixes in Kiswahili Predicate Items" (Assibi Apatewon Amidu) examines the few morphemes recognized in the Swahili derivational affix system and suggests changes in the rules of vowel harmony and in presentation and representation of the affixes in use.…
Descriptors: Affixes, African Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Ewe
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