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McArthur, Douglas – Sign Language Studies, 1991
Applies a taxonomic principle to analyze the gradual elaboration of any language or sign system as a technology of communication rather than the reflection of a specialized language faculty or cluster of language faculties. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Classification, Language Maintenance, Language Planning

Oetting, Janna B.; McDonald, Janet L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2002
This study compared three methods for identifying non-mainstream dialect use: listener judgment ratings, type-based counts of non-mainstream pattern use, token- based counts. Correct dialect classifications were made for 88 to 97 percent of participants, although regression algorithms had to be applied to the type- and token-based results. For…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Development, Children, Dialects

McWhorter, John H. – Language, 1998
Outlines three features that render creoles synchronically distinguishable from other languages, all three clear results of a break in transmission followed by a development period too brief for the traits to be undone as they have been in older languages. Shows that an expanded data set reveals flaws in the socio-historical argumentation behind…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Classification
Storkel, Holly L. – Journal of Child Language, 2002
Previous evidence suggests that the structure of similarity neighbourhoods in the developing mental lexicon may differ from that of the fully developed lexicon. The similarity relationships used to organize words into neighbourhoods was investigated in 20 pre-school children (age 3;7 to 5;11) using a two alternative forced-choice classification…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Cognitive Processes, Child Development, Preschool Children
Bomhard, Allan R. – 1995
A discussion of Indo-European languages proposes that this language family is not genetically isolated but is distantly related to certain other language families of northern and central Eurasia, the Indian subcontinent, and the ancient Near East. The history of research into this macrofamily of languages, termed Nostratic, is reviewed, with notes…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Indo European Languages, Language Classification

Klimov, G. A. – Linguistics, 1974
Discusses the syntax and morphology of languages of active case or typology, chiefly found in North America (the Nadene, Sioux and Gulf families) and South America (the Tupi-Guarani family). (CK)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Choctaw, Classification, Guarani
Guice, Stephen A. – 1987
The contributions of Peter Stephen DuPonceau and John Pickering to American linguistics in the early nineteenth century are reviewed and discussed. Despite their probable status as amateurs in the study of American Indian languages and their very limited fieldwork, they made some significant contributions to the general field of language studies…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Authors, Grammar, Intellectual History

Birnbaum, Henrik – Linguistics, 1975
Addresses some of the problems concerning the hierarchical relationship between language typology and genetic linguistics and between typology and universal grammar. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar
NAYLOR, KENNETH E. – 1966
THE CAKAVIAN GROUP OF SERBO-CROATIAN DIALECTS CAN BE RECLASSIFIED USING SYNCHRONIC CRITERIA RATHER THAN TRADITIONALLY USED DIACHRONIC CRITERIA. THE APPROACH IS TYPOLOGICAL RATHER THAN GENETIC AND COMPARES THE NOMINAL MORPHOLOGICAL AND MORPHOPHONEMIC SYSTEMS OF SEVEN DIALECTS SELECTED TO PROVIDE A GEOGRAPHICAL SAMPLING OF THE CAKAVIAN GROUP.…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Language Classification
MA, ROXANA; NEWMAN, PAUL – 1966
IN RECENT YEARS IT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED THAT A LARGE NUMBER OF THE LANGUAGES IN THE LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSIFIED SUB-SAHARAN AREA OF NORTHERN NIGERIA, THE NORTHERN CAMEROONS, AND THE CHAD REPUBLIC, INCLUDING MANY OF THE LANGUAGES OF THE JOS PLATEAU GROUP, CAN BE CLASSIFIED AS A SINGLE LINGUISTIC UNIT--THE CHAD FAMILY. BY USING THE TRADITIONAL…
Descriptors: Afro Asiatic Languages, Chad Languages, Comparative Analysis, Consonants
Rogers, Andy, Ed.; And Others – 1977
The ten papers in this volume are largely revisions of papers presented at the Texas conference, held March 22-24, 1973. The first paper, "Against Universal Semantic Representation," by Gilbert Harman, argues against the need for (and the possibility of) a level of semantic representation in a theory of language. "Remarks on the…
Descriptors: English, Generative Grammar, Language, Language Classification
Laird, Helene; Laird, Charlton – 1960
The first part of this text for young students provides an introduction to the origins of language, the beginnings of writing, and the making of an alphabet. The second part, "Word Stories," presents the etymologies of over 100 common English words in simplified, nontechnical style. Special terms are explained in a prefatory section. A word and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Books, Childrens Literature, Diachronic Linguistics
Curtis, W. Scott; Donlon, Edward T. – 1969
Descriptions by various professionals of 70 multiply handicapped deaf-blind children evaluated at the Syracuse University Center for the Development of Blind Children were examined for terminology used to describe the child and his life situation. Purposes were to develop some epidemiological characteristics of the multiply handicapped, deaf-blind…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Deaf Blind, Evaluation Methods

Bell, Alan – 1971
A particular aspect of syllable structure, length of syllable margins, was investigated with the aid of a Markov chain model. The model represented explicitly the dynamic relationship between types of syllable structure and the historical processes that affect them. It is proposed that the regularities concerning syllable types (universality of CV…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Typology
Dunatov, Rasio – Slavic and East European Journal, 1963
The reappearance of an old controversy on how best to analyze the Russian palatalized consonants prompts the author of this article to define the words "palatalization" and "palatal." Contrastive examples clarify phonetic terminology including the classifications of "labial voiced and voiceless palatalized stops,""labial voiced and voiceless…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Classification