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Multiple Determinants of a Stigmatized Speech Style: Women's Language, Powerless Language, or Everyone's Language?
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Rubin, Donald L.; Nelson, Marie Wilson – Language and Speech, 1983
Examines the effects of speaker sex, socioeconomic status, ability, communication apprehension, ridigity, and question type on the incidence of 16 style markers and on verbosity in simulated job interviews. (EKN)
Descriptors: Females, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns, Language Research
Language and Play: A Study of the Relationship between Functions and Structures in the Language of Five Year Old Children
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Teece, Cathleen – Language and Speech, 1976
Results confirm the value of play activities for language development, and illustrate the nature of linguistic interaction among groups of five-year-olds. (RL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Interaction, Language Acquisition
The Effects of Translation on Readability
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Dye, Omar A. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, French Literature, Language Ability, Language Patterns
Social Class and the Speech of Four Year Olds: The Effect of Intelligence
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Johnston, Rhona – Language and Speech, 1977
Suggests that differences in verbal intelligence affect the speech of four-year-olds, necessitating that care be taken not to confuse verbal intelligence with social class when studying the speech of young children. (RL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Individual Differences, Intelligence, Language Patterns
Ellipsis in Discourse: Implications for Linguistic Analysis by Computer, the Child's Acquisition of Language, and Semantic Theory
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Holzman, Mathilda S. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Computers, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition
Perceptions of Female and Male Speech
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Kramer, Cheris – Language and Speech, 1977
Establishes the existence of perceived male/female speech stereotypes. (RL)
Descriptors: College Students, High School Students, Higher Education, Language Patterns
The Role of Prior Message Context in Evaluative Judgments of High- and Low-Diversity Messages.
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And Others; Bradac, James J. – Language and Speech, 1977
Reports on two studies exploring the contrast effects in judgments of messages exhibiting high or low lexical and syntactic diversity. Suggests that listeners are sensitive to variations in lexical diversity but not syntactic diversity. (RL)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Language Research