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Bolles, Edmund Blair – Saturday Review (New York 1952), 1972
An analysis of the speech of infants gives a clue to the evolution of language. (DR)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition, Language Universals
Willbrand, Mary Louise – 1973
This paper reports on a study conducted to determine the abilities of children to make optional transformations in sentences conjoined with "and." The subjects were 35 middle-class children between the ages of five and eight, who demonstrated average school achievement, spoke standard American English, and had normal speech and hearing. A…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition

Mayer, Judith Winzemer; And Others – Cognition, 1978
The basic-operations hypothesis predicts that for any transformation which is composed of more than one basic operation, there exists a class of errors in children's speech correctly analyzed as failure to apply one (or more) of the operations specified in the adult formulation of the rule. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition
Taylor, Louise Todd – 1969
Samples of written language were collected from 140 congenitally deaf children at grade levels 3, 5, 7, and 9. The samples were then subjected to error, quantitative, and transformational analysis. Findings suggested a relationship between the order in which the deaf child acquires the rules of his language and the ordering of rules in a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Exceptional Child Research, Generative Grammar
Lakoff, George – 1965
This dissertation is an attempt to characterize the notion "exception to a rule of grammar" within the context of Chomsky's conception of grammar as given in "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax." This notion depends on a prior notion of "rule government"--in each phrase marker on which a transformational rule may…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Context Free Grammar, English
Dato, Daniel P. – 1970
This project seeking to develop sound methodological research techniques for second-language is based on an initial pilot study which (1) identified and classifies the utterances of a child learning Spanish as a second language, and (2) determines whether there are any significant trends in the observed order of learning of kernels and transformed…
Descriptors: Child Language, Componential Analysis, Generative Grammar, Kernel Sentences

Goodman, Kenneth S.; Niles, Olive S. – 1970
Broad and major concerns dealing with reading are set forth in this monograph to provoke discussion and examination by both researchers and practitioners. In Part 1, Kenneth S. Goodman presents a psycholinguistic view of language and reading (within a transformational-generative framework) as essentially a set of processes of recoding, decoding,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels