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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
Hurtig, Richard – 1974
In the first section a sketch of a tense logic is presented and a mechanism is suggested for including aspects of the tense logic into the Grammar (theory of language). Specifically, several grammatical structures are shown to incorporate temporal features. A semantic projection mechanism is utilized to amalgamate the temporal features in elements…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adverbs, Cognitive Processes, Conjunctions
Larson, Darlene G. – 1974
This paper argues for a reorganization of the educational procedures in the ESL classroom, in the interest of developing communicative competence. Special emphasis is placed on the use in the classroom of only structural and phonological patterns which are easily transferrable to real-life situations. In the interest of abolishing mechanical…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)

Hirabayashi, Mikio – 1974
This paper examines the factors which govern the use of infinitives and gerunds after verbs and uses American literature and periodicals since 1945 for examples of this usage. The analysis was undertaken in order to clarify this usage for those teaching or learning English as a second language. Studies yielded three general rules for the use of…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Context Clues, English Instruction, English (Second Language)
Wagner-Gough, Judy – 1975
This is a study of the processes involved in second language learning in which the principal subject was an Iranian child who learned English in the United States without formal instruction. Some of the questions dealt with in this study include: what motivates language learning in a child; what makes the linguistic structure of a language more or…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Larmouth, Donald W. – Minnesota English Journal, 1970
The experimental program in remedial composition described in this interim report was designed on the assumption that students could best learn to write minimally acceptable compositions by imitating paragraph and essay models which have been divided into a series of incremental steps. The objectives of the program were to develop a heuristic…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Connected Discourse, Discovery Learning, Imitation
Kaukauna Joint District 2, WI. – 1968
An approach to a language, literature, and composition curriculum designed to help students develop both an ability to think and an appreciation of themselves is summarized. Materials include (1) a listing of the main features of a communications curriculum from elementary through secondary school, (2) a rationale for the curriculum, which…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Drama, Elective Courses, Elementary Education
Keiler, Allan – 1969
In an attempt to apply recent developments in transformational grammar to Latin syntax, this report analyzes first English, then Latin sentences for both deep and surface structures through transformational and phrase structure grammar methods. Auxiliary nodes, problems of Latin verb complimentation, and the gerund and gerundive constructions are…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Instructional Innovation, Language Research
Moffett, James – 1968
Addressed to teachers, educators, and other specialists in language learning, this volume sketches a pedagogical theory of discourse for a language arts curriculum (see "A Student-Centered Language Arts Curriculum, Grades K-13: A Handbook for Teachers," TE 001 468). The emphasis is upon mastering the art of communication through the everyday use…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Creative Writing, Discourse Analysis
Anastasio, Ernest J.; And Others – 1969
A study to facilitate computer generation of test items succeeded in developing a set of criteria which could be used by a computer to select sentences suitable for sentence completion question items. The sentence completion item requires the student to complete a sentence from which one or more words have been deleted. Analysis of 110 appropriate…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Educational Research
Allen, Robert L.; Allen, Virginia F. – 1965
These supplementary materials for students of English as a second or foreign language consist of 48 recorded conversations in the form of short question-and-answer dialogs. (The vocabulary range is 800-1,000 basic words.) The exercises are designed to develop aural skills; students listen to conversations between a native and a non-native speaker,…
Descriptors: Audiodisc Recordings, Audiolingual Methods, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials
Minke, Karl Alfred, Jr. – 1969
An analysis of part-of-speech membership was made utilizing certain mechanisms that have been proposed to explain the nature of word classes. It was proposed that words of the same form class constitute "verbal habit families" on the basis of either a common grammatical meaning response, a common affix, or a common label (e.g., "verb"). One…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), Function Words, Grammar
Malikouti-Drachman, Angeliki; And Others – 1973
This issue is devoted to first language acquisition. It includes twelve papers concerning: the acquisition of liquids ("1" and "r"); creative errors in the written syntax of deaf children; theoretical and methodological problems in the acquisition of phonology, illustrated from Greek and English: the basis of articulation; the philosophy of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Bibliographies, Charts, Child Language
Wardhaugh, Ronald – 1972
This book attempts to provide a broad and not too highly technical coverage of linguistic theory, both historically and in its current status. Although no particular viewpoint is espoused, a penchant for transformation generative grammar is apparent. The text discusses language as a means of communication, the physiology of articulation,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Bibliographies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis