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Thomas, Earl W. – 1974
This is a first-year text of Portuguese grammar based on the Portuguese of moderately educated Brazilians from the area around Rio de Janeiro. Spoken idiomatic usage is emphasized. An important innovation is found in the presentation of verb tenses; they are presented in the order in which the native speaker learns them. The text is intended to…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Determiners (Languages), Dialects, Grammar
Natalicio, Luiz F. S.; Natalicio, Diana S. – 1973
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of initial consonants, especially /s/, on the pluralization of English nouns by both native English- and native Spanish-speaking first grade pupils. A test instrument consisting of nonsense syllable trigrams was constructed based on linguistic descriptions of English noun pluralization.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Child Language, Consonants, English (Second Language)
Rand, Earl – 1969
This volume consists of 86 structured, patterned drills based upon rules which reflect the competence of native speakers to pronominalize, nominalize, delete, and otherwise transform English sentences in the context of other English sentences. These drills are designed to be used in English courses for foreign students and for speakers of…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
Martinez-Bernal, Janet Ayers – 1972
In this experimental study for developing a bilingual diagnostic language test, findings in English and Spanish about monolingual language acquisition were used in designing materials to investigate the bilingual language acquisition (English and Spanish) of children five to eight years old in Tucson, Arizona. Attention was focused on acquisition…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Children, English, English (Second Language)
Carlson, Barry F. – 1972
Spokan is the dialect of Salishan spoken in the westernmost section of the area extending east from the Columbia River in Washington to the foothills of the Rockies in Montana. The present study is an overall treatment of its grammar, presented in three parts--phonology, morphology, and grammar. Extensive illustrations and charts are provided. A…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Drew, Ion – 2001
This study examined Norwegian seventh graders' English writing, investigating how close their writing in English was to their writing in Norwegian and how levels of performance in second language writing were linked to broader issues (curriculum guidelines, extensive reading, contact time with the target language, and teacher qualifications).…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grade 7

Valian, Virginia; Eisenberg, Zena – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Examines the spontaneous speech of Portuguese-speaking two-year olds in natural conversation with Portuguese-speaking adults. The children were separated into three groups based on Mean Length of Utterance in Words (MLUW). The children in the highest-MLUW group almost perfectly matched the adult speakers on every measure. (37 references)…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis

Verhallen, Marianne; Schoonen, Rob – Applied Linguistics, 1993
To study lexical knowledge relevant for school success, 40 monolingual Dutch and 40 bilingual Turkish 9 and 11-year olds were asked to explain the meanings of common Dutch nouns in an extended word definition task. Compared to the monolingual Dutch children, the bilingual Turkish children allotted less extensive and varied meanings to Dutch words.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Child Language, Comparative Analysis

Choi, Soonja; Gopnik, Alison – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Investigates children's early lexical development in English and Korean and compares caregivers' linguistic input in the two languages. Results indicate that young Korean children use verbs productively with appropriate inflections and that, unlike in English, both verbs and nouns in Korean are dominant categories from the single-word stage. (39…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation
Foster, James Q.; Harrell, Lane Foster; Raizen, Esther – CALICO Journal, 2004
This paper reports on the grammatical and programmatical production aspects of the "Hebrewer," a cross-platform web-based reference work in the form of a Hebrew inflection generator. The Hebrewer, a Java applet/servlet combination, is currently capable of generating 2,500 nouns in full declension and 500 verbs in full conjugation,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Internet, Nouns, Alphabets
Kelly, J., Ed.; And Others – York Papers in Linguistics, 1991
Papers in this volume include: "The Role of Tone in Some Cushitic Languages" (David L. Appleyard); "Downdrift in a Tone Language with Four Tone Levels" (G. N. Clements); "Non-Pitch Exponents of Accent and Structure in Japanese" (John Coleman); "Clause Structure and Tone in Sandawe" (Edward D. Elderkin);…
Descriptors: Akan, Dutch, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication
Panagopoulou, Evangelia – 1990
A discussion of some occurrences of metaphor in Modern Greek is intended to offer insight to foreign language teachers on the handling of the phenomenon in classroom instruction. Some implications for machine translation are also suggested. First, a brief theoretical account of metaphor points out that metaphor occurs in nearly all discourse and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Klausmeier, Herbert J.; And Others – 1973
The Conceptual Learning and Development (CLD) Model suggests four successive levels of concept learning: (1) concrete--recognizing an object which has been encountered previously; (2) identity--recognizing a known object when it appears in a different spatial, time, or sensory perspective; (3) classificatory--generalizing that two items are alike…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
Bardakjian, Kevork B.; Thomson, Robert W. – 1977
This textbook is designed as a first-year course at the undergraduate level. It is specifically aimed at students with no prior knowledge of Armenian, and emphasis has been placed on the numerous subtleties and nuances of Armenian which might seem strange or difficult to English speakers. In the text, stress has been put on explaining the grammar…
Descriptors: Armenian, Form Classes (Languages), Glossaries, Grammar
Snowman, Jack – 1979
This study assessed the effects of bizarreness, prompt modality, and prompt type for 144 five and eight year-old children on recognition memory of pictorial pairs. Presentation of stimuli was self-paced, allowing for the collection of study time and response latency data, as well as recording number correct. While both bizarre and nonbizarre forms…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Cues, Elementary School Students