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Peer reviewedDelis, Dean; Slater, Anne Saxon – Cognition, 1977
The theory that reduction transformations provide speakers with the option of deleting redundant information when communicating to a topic-cognizant audience is supported. In the experiment, college physiology students were provided with deep structure proximal sentences (base propositions), and asked to communicate them to different audiences,…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Deep Structure, Higher Education, Linguistic Theory
Sah, P. P. – 1978
Dissatisfied with the linguist's concentration on structure, sociolinguistically inclined linguists turned to anthropology to give an empirical orientation to linguistics. Almost at the same time anthropologists were trying to give a more theoretical orientation to their subject of study, and the structural methods was being sought as the remedy.…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Research, Linguistic Competence
