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Demirezen, Mehmet – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
This research aims to explore the ability of English majors to identify the four basic types of sentences. English language has four types of sentences, each kind of sentence for different kinds of messages. Sentences are combinations of words that express complete thoughts. Sentences are basic building blocks of writing and communication;…
Descriptors: Identification, Sentences, Writing Skills, Sentence Structure
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Thothathiri, Malathi; Snedeker, Jesse; Hannon, Erin – Infant and Child Development, 2012
Distributional information is a potential cue for learning syntactic categories. Recent studies demonstrate a developmental trajectory in the level of abstraction of distributional learning in young infants. Here we investigate the effect of prosody on infants' learning of adjacent relations between words. Twelve- to thirteen-month-old infants…
Descriptors: Infants, Suprasegmentals, Language Acquisition, Sentences
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Whitacre, Janet D.; And Others – Language and Speech, 1970
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Development, Comparative Testing, Discrimination Learning