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Moerk, Ernst L. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
Shafer, Robert E. – Elementary English, 1974
New discoveries in linguistics call into question established systems of reading instruction. (JH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
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Bell, Alan – 1971
Distinction is made between nonsignificant (i.e. definitional or accidental) and significant universals. Two approaches to discovering the significance of universals are characterized and evaluated: the process-state approach, which aims at "transmission-significant" universals, and the transformationalist approach, which seeks for…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
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
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Cazden, Courtney B. – Young Children, 1970
Discusses current research in child language to help teachers understand how young children acquire language skills. (DR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Curriculum Development, Dialects, Language Acquisition
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Strong, William – English Journal, 1976
Sentence combining practices works best as a skill-building adjunct to regular composition work. (JH)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Kernel Sentences, Language Acquisition
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Ney, James W. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1980
Discusses the implications for language teaching of Chomskyean and transformational theory. The notions of deep structure, linguistic theory building, and inutility of a corpus are far less interesting than the view of language as rule-governed behavior and language learning as hypothesis-testing. Rationalist v behaviorist theories are discussed.…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, English (Second Language)
McGee, Donald – 1968
Conceptual models of language learning and language use were made by a committee of school personnel interested in investigating learning differences in preschool language development, even though public school systems do not as yet include preschool classes. Normative information was collected from various research sources and classified.…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps, Language Usage
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Carroll, John B. – Review of Educational Research, 1964
This review of literature in linguistics and the psychology of language focuses on studies produced from 1961 through 1963. Such topics as language development, generative grammar, semantics, and the role of linguistics in the teaching of reading are covered, and much attention is given to the areas of verbal learning and the psychology of…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Learning Theories
Sheldon, Amy, Comp. – 1976
This unannotated bibliography consists of 160 citations of books and journal articles dealing with linguistics (traditional grammar, semantics, syntax, morphology, inflectional rules, transformational grammar, generative phonology), language usage, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, verbal behavior, psychology, and the philosophy of…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Generative Phonology, Grammar
Braun, Carl; Klassen, Bernard – 1970
A study designed to investigate to what extent ethno-linguistic background affects speech patterns and syntactic flexibility of grades one, four and six children from monolingual, bilingual-French and bilingual-German rural communities. A total of 216 randomly selected subjects were used; they were selected from nine rural Manitoba schools, and…
Descriptors: Age, Bilingualism, Child Language, Classification
Dingwall, William Orr, Ed. – 1971
This survey consists of eleven papers covering current topics within the realm of linguistic science. The papers are written by scholars in particular fields, and each one is followed by a list of references and critiques by other linguists. Current theories are discussed and reference is made to recent studies and writings. The areas of…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Articulation (Speech), Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Dahl, Sandra Sue – 1975
This study was designed to identify specific language variables that could prove to be useful as predictors of a child's success in beginning reading. The study is theoretical in nature and provides background information that may be useful in future empirical investigations. A review of the literature on child language acquisition was conducted.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Doctoral Dissertations, Early Childhood Education
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Center for Curriculum Development in English. – 1967
This Minnesota Curriculum Center report recounts the development of teaching materials on the nature and uses of language for grades 7-12 and presents the first of five seventh-grade units. A description of the origins, purposes, and personnel of the Center is followed by brief discussions of (1) the Center's underlying assumption that a study of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Curriculum Study Centers, Diachronic Linguistics
Goldstein, Miriam B. – 1966
This book describes for parents the effects that recent developments in language study have had on the English curriculum. The discussion covers (1) literacy (language development in small children, spelling, reading, writing, and bilingualism); (2) grammar (structural linguistics, transformational grammar, and the new textbooks); (3) usage…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Dictionaries
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