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Mattina, Anthony – 1973
This dissertation is a grammatical sketch of Colville, a Salishan language of eastern Washington. After an introductory chapter on language family, the phonology (consonants, stops, resonants, vowels) is outlined. The chapter on morphology discusses the basic intransitive nature of all roots and the production of transitive, middle, and…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Starosta, Stanley – 1970
In line with current thinking in transformational grammar, syntax as a system can and should be studied before a study is made of the use of that system. Chomsky's lexical redundancy rule is an area for further study, possibly to come closer to defining and achieving explanatory adequacy. If it is observed that English nouns come in two types,…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics
Crymes, Ruth – 1971
The transformational-generative concept of language learning as constructing a theory about language inspired this experiment. Language performance developed by a method of language learning designed to help the student study about a second language through manipulative exercises was compared to language performance developed by a method not…
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)

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

Budzhak-Jones, Svitlana; Poplack, Shana – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1997
Examines the quantitative conditioning of English lone nouns of one language used in discourse in Ukrainian in a Canadian setting. Results yield a synchronic portrait of the integrated loanword, even when it bears no surface indication of that integration, is neither recurrent nor widespread, and has no history of attestation or other status in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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
Miller, Julia – International Education Journal, 2005
The English article system presents many problems for non-native speakers of English, particularly when they do not have an equivalent structure in their first language. Different approaches to the teaching of articles have attempted to overcome this problem. By encouraging students to address the notion of countability and to identify specific…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), English, Limited English Speaking
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
Porochiwnyk, Daria – 1986
The teaching unit provides materials for the fourth year of the six-year secondary school curriculum in Ukrainian as a second language. It focuses on concepts identified for study at the grade 10 level, expression of location and destination, with a comprehensive study of the locative case of nouns and their modifiers. In completing the unit,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Class Activities, Course Content, Educational Objectives
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1975
The first of 20 volumes of lessons designed for use in a full-time, intensive training program in Arabic is presented. In each lesson grammatical patterns and vocabulary are taught through explanations, vocabulary lists, dialogues, audiolingual drills, and question-answer and free oral expression exercises. A review lesson is included after every…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Arabic, Audiolingual Methods, Dialogs (Language)

Kari, James, Comp. – 1977
This noun dictionary of the Athapascan language covers all dialects of the Tanaina language of the Cook Inlet region. It has been prepared for the Dena'ina people to help maintain their language and culture. The introduction explains the Dena'ina dialects and the phonological system of the Dena'ina alphabet. The dictionary is organized into…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Languages, Athapascan Languages, Bilingual Education
Bidwell, Charles E. – 1969
This study examines the ten major contemporary standard Slavic languages (Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Bielorussian, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovenian, and Bulgarian) from the point of view of their similarities and differences in morpho-syntactic structure. Areas examined include: vowel and consonant systems, morphophonemics,…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Case (Grammar), Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics

Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1971
This is the second to two volumes dealing with a comprehensive review of structural patterns in the Advanced Preparatory Course prepared by the Defense Language Institute. All essential grammatical structures introduced in the Basic Course are included in the 15 lessons. The purpose of the review is to stimulate recall and reinforce previously…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Conversational Language Courses, Cyrillic Alphabet
Wei, Jacqueline – 1962
This study is a description of the linguistic differences between three Persian dialects. The underlying aim of the study is to provide the linguistic facts necessary to evaluate the implications of divergence between the dialects for students of Persian. It would appear that if students experience difficulty in adjusting from one dialect to…
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Function Words

Blackwell, Arshavir; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Presents the results of three experiments investigating the time course of grammaticality judgement. The high correlations among the experiments suggest that the incremental tasks assigned were tapping into the same decision-making process as is found online. The article discusses the findings' implications for the error types that do and do not…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Correlation