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Peer reviewedDinnsen, Daniel – Language Sciences, 1977
Argues that the mechanism of rule ordering, although sufficient to account for certain facts about linguistic change and variation, is not necessary. Different sequences of identical rules needed to account for dialectal facts in Catalan can be predicted by two independently motivated universal principles. (CHK)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedKhubchandani, Lachman M. – Language Sciences, 1974
Sociolinguistic patterns of India are discussed. (LG)
Descriptors: Demography, Language Patterns, Language Planning, Language Role
Peer reviewedHouseholder, Fred W. – Language Sciences, 1972
Paper presented before the Indiana University Linguistics Club on May 13, 1971, in Bloomington, Indiana. (VM)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Peer reviewedStanwood, Ryo – Language Sciences, 1997
This study presents evidence collected from basilectal texts that the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) mental predicates "think, know, want, feel, say, see, hear" have clear lexical equivalents in Hawaii Creole English (HCE), and that these HCE predicates occur, with minor qualification, in the syntactic configurations predicted by…
Descriptors: Creoles, Discourse Analysis, English, Language Patterns
