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Helms-Park, Rena – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2001
Reports the findings of a study in which transfer of verb properties was investigated via syntactic data elicited from second language learners. The performance of Hindi-Urdu speakers on tests of English causatives was compared with that of Vietnamese speakers, because there are five significant differences between causativization patterns in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Hindi, Language Patterns

Buggey, Tom – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1995
Effects of videotaped self-modeling on acquisition, maintenance, and generalization of the contractible copula "is" with preschool children with delayed language were assessed. All three participating students made and maintained clear gains in acquiring the target behavior and applying it in normal conversational usage. (Author/PB)
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Acquisition

Rickford, John.; And Others – Language, 1995
This article examines the variable absence of the verb in "as far as" constructions, which serve as qualifiers or topic restrictors in English. (46 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis

Caplan, David; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Reports five experiments; the first two assessed the effect of the selectional restriction requirements of verbs and the animacy of nouns on sentence comprehension, the third determined the cause of the interaction found in the first set of studies, and the fourth and fifth were self-paced reading experiments. (52 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Conceptual Tempo, Data Analysis, Graphs
Saraceni, Luisa; And Others – Francais dans le Monde, 1993
Four activities are offered for French second-language classroom use: an exercise to aid comprehension of indicative and subjunctive mood; a lesson in making bread and jam, designed for young children; a study of narration within a novel, using a Guy de Maupassant story; and an exercise in discourse analysis. (MSE)
Descriptors: Child Language, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Discourse Analysis
Francais dans le Monde, 1993
Four ideas for classroom French language instruction are described, including an exercise in selection of passive and active voice, a project in which students prepare transparencies for an oral presentation, an activity in which Italian students develop a tour for French visitors, and a radio broadcast project. (MSE)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, French, Grammar

Wang, Chuming; Lee, Thomas Hun-tak – Language Learning, 1999
Investigated how Chinese-speaking English-as-a-Second-Language (L2) learners developed second language (L2) knowledge of conflation classes of verbs in the formation of prenominal adjectival participles. Groups of L2 learners and native English speakers judged the acceptability of prenominal adjectival participles placed in four linguistic…
Descriptors: Adjectives, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries

Ingham, Richard; Fletcher, Paul; Schelletter, Christina; Sinka, Indra – Language Acquisition, 1998
Discusses the suggestion that grammatical-specific language impairment (SLI) is characterized as a deficit affecting only feature-related aspects of grammar. The research reported here indicates a wider impairment involving aspects of grammar not determined by feature checking, in particular the structure of the verb phrase with resultative…
Descriptors: Adults, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grammar

Tickoo, Asha – Prospect, 2001
This study on the marking of the past tense in students' essay writing examines why some students use some verbs accurately and not others. Reveals that while some students are consistently accurate, others are not, a tendency that comes from the influence of the first language. (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Essays, Foreign Countries
Hohle, Barbara; Weissenborn, Jurgen; Kiefer, Dorothea; Schulz, Antje; Schmitz, Michaela – Infancy, 2004
How do children determine the syntactic category of novel words? In this article we present the results of 2 experiments that investigated whether German children between 12 and 16 months of age can use distributional knowledge that determiners precede nouns and subject pronouns precede verbs to syntactically categorize adjacent novel words.…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Verbs, Nouns
Bayley, Robert; Langman, Juliet – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2004
This article examines the relationship between group and individual patterns of variation in one area of the grammar: verbal morphology. The results of studies of the acquisition of English and Hungarian verbal morphology by Chinese learners show that individual patterns of variation closely match group patterns on several dimensions. Multivariate…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Multivariate Analysis, Verbs
Konig, Wolf – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2005
In the present study we investigate sentence production in the German interlanguage of Turkish students who have learned German as a first and English as a second foreign language. The students know both languages at an (advanced) intermediate level. Nevertheless, we observed some properties of the German interlanguage that seem to indicate an…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Verbs, Second Language Learning
Ellis, Rod; Yuan, Fangyuan – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2004
Building on previous studies of the effects of planning on second language (L2) learners' oral narratives and drawing on Kellog's (1996) model of writing, this article reports a study of the effects of three types of planning conditions (pretask planning, unpressured on-line planning, and no planning) on 42 Chinese learners' written narratives…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Verbs, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
Moore, Harumi – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
How would translators approach a process in which they have to make decisions on mapping the grammatically enforced regular number mechanism of a language such as English onto a system like Japanese, where there is no regular coding of number in a noun phrase? Utilizing the concepts of motivation for representation of number, and of "formal-shift"…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Motivation
Williams-van Klinken, Catharina – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
As an official language of newly-independent East Timor, the public role of Tetun has increased markedly since 1999. Its use is, however, hampered by a shortage of agreed, well-understood, technical terminology. This paper reports on a project by the Independent Electoral Commission and the United Nations Development Programme to develop a…
Descriptors: Nouns, Syntax, Official Languages, Foreign Countries