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Wilkinson, Roy – 1992
This book traces the development of speech from a time when the spiritual roots of words were still experienced, down to the present day when words are in danger of being little else than 'bits' of information. The book illustrates the origins of everyday words and names and traces the use of words through history. It shows how certain sounds…
Descriptors: Language, Language Research, Language Role, Language Skills
Mulder, J. W. F.; Hervey, S. G. J. – Linguistique, 1975
Based on Mulder's previous classification of all semiotic systems designed to describe the system of discrete features in human languages, this article explores a further subclassification of the genus language into species. (CLK)
Descriptors: Language, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Universals
Peer reviewedSteinberg, Danny D. – Language Sciences, 1972
Modified version of a paper presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Washington, D.C., September 4, 1971. (VM)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Experiments, Language, Language Research
Download full textSwain, Merrill – 1971
A definition of bilingualism can include speakers of different languages as well as those who speak several dialects or several sub-varieties of dialects in the same language. Most speakers are able to practice code-switching, whether it is from language to language or dialect to dialect, and the processes involved in such a capability may be the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Dialects
Miro Quesada, Francisco – Lenguaje y Ciencias, 1972
This paper discusses the validity and role of linguistic theory in terms of philosophy and logic and considers the relationship among these fields of human knowledge. The main objective of linguistic science is to discover the composition laws actually used by speech communities at any given moment in history. Linguistics is therefore not…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar
Beier, Ernst G.; Zautra, Alexander
The experiment discussed in this report investigates cross cultural ability to decode emotive meaning in extra-verbal vocal expressions of mood. The principal expectation of the study is that primitive mood expressions are understood in much the same way in all the countries tested. The moods depicted in the study--angry, sad, happy, flirtatious,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Emotional Response
Jenkins, James J. – 1972
The experiments described in this report seek to investigate the characteristics of speech perception using an approach which considers the development of the perception of "voicing," both as it occurs naturally and as it might occur in the laboratory. Investigating voicing discrimination and perception training among adults, infants, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Artificial Speech, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception
