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Download full textHass, Wilbur A. – 1970
Children's language acquisition is viewed by developmental psycholinguists as a process of change in the organization of language processing operations. Normal children seem to acquire their native language by this process, rather than by eliminating specific mistakes. Preschool language develops in stages, and knowledge of where syntactic change…
Descriptors: Child Language, Educational Objectives, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels
Peer reviewedQuisenberry, Nancy Lou Forbes – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
Descriptors: Language, Language Learning Levels, Language Research, Linguistic Performance
Morehead, Donald; Ingram, David – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1970
Language samples of 15 young normal children actively engaged in learning base syntax were compared with samples of 15 linguistically deviant children of a comparable linguistic level. Mean number of morphemes per utterance was used to determine linguistic level. The two groups were matched according to five linguistic levels previously…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Olshewsky, Thomas M. – 1975
An extreme view of language acquisition sees base structures as innate, and acquisition of the grammar of a particular language as a process of learning the transformation rules needed to get from base structures to surface structures of adult native speakers. Base structures are understood to most resemble simple-active-affirmative-declarative…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Intonation, Language Acquisition
VALDMAN, ALBERT – 1967
THIS PAPER DISCUSSES THE SELECTION OF A PEDAGOGICAL NORM FOR FRENCH INTERROGATIVE STRUCTURES. SINCE THIS AREA OF FRENCH GRAMMAR IS PARTICULARLY POLYMORPHOUS, OBJECTIVE CRITERIA ARE SET UP TO MAKE THE SELECTION--FREQUENCY, COMPLEXITY, AND EXTENSIVITY. BECAUSE "EST-CE QUE" CAN BE APPLIED WITHOUT EXCEPTION TO ALL TYPES OF KERNEL SENTENCES, IT WAS…
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Kernel Sentences, Language Instruction
O'Donnell, Roy C.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1967
The techniques of transformational grammar can be used effectively to identify and describe significant differences in the language competencies of children at several grade levels. The oral language responses of 150 elementary school children and 30 kindergartners (selected at random) to two silent, animated films of Aesop's "Fables" were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students
Shawl, James Robert – 1969
An operational definition of the standard for learner achievement at Level 2, with respect to the skills of reading and writing, was proposed for Spanish as one aspect of a research project. The method described, serving as the basis for articulation of level achievement, deals with general procedures, proposed operational definition of reading…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Experiments, Language Instruction
