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Peer reviewedFord, William; Olson, David – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Two experiments were conducted to determine whether children, ages 4-7 assign invariant labels to objects or describe the objects in terms of the context of alternatives. The acquisition of adjective ordering rules and information limits on children's utterances were also examined. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Age Differences, Child Language, Early Childhood Education
Petroff, A. – Langages, 1974
(Text is in French.)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Computers, Information Processing
Silverman, Stuart H. – Mod Lang J, 1969
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Language Patterns, Language Research
Silverman, Stuart – Mod Lang J, 1969
Descriptors: Intonation, Language Patterns, Language Research, Measurement
Westphal, M. Elizabeth; and others – Mod Lang J, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Correlation, German, Intelligence
Siegel, Gerald M. – J Speech Hearing Disor, 1969
Descriptors: Imitation, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Erickson, Frederick David – Elem Eng, 1969
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cognitive Development, Context Clues, Dialect Studies
Fishman, Joshua A. – Mod Lang J, 1969
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups, Language Research
Politzer, Robert L.; Weiss, Louis – Mod Lang J, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Children, FLES, Language Research
Dent, Cathy H. – 1980
Children's use of proforms in spoken descriptions of real situations was studied and compared with that of adults to explore possible developmental progressions in the use of indexical reference. A discourse distinction between situational and textual reference was applied to data from 6-year-old and 10-year-old children and from adults. Subjects…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Frawley, William – 1981
This paper is an empirical study of Dryer's (1980) universal hierarchy of positions of sentential complements as a predictor of second language acquisition. The place of universal grammar in second language research is discussed, as is Dryer's hierarchy and preliminary psycholinguistic evidence in support of it. The results of an experiment…
Descriptors: English, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Universals
PDF pending restorationSankoff, David; Poplack, Shana – 1980
This study, part of an on-going investigation, analyzes the syntactic aspects of code-switching. A series of empirical studies has confirmed that there are only two general linguistic constraints where code-switching may occur, the free morpheme constraint and the equivalence constraint. This study describes in formal terms how the two constraints…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English, Language Research
Download full textHodges, Richard E. – 1982
Drawing upon research into the nature of the English writing system and about the development of spelling ability, this booklet presents an approach to improving spelling and vocabulary at the secondary school level based on a knowledge of the fabric of the language itself. The first section of the booklet reviews theory and research concerning…
Descriptors: Etymology, Language Research, Learning Theories, Orthographic Symbols
Delbecque, N.; De Kock, J. – 1981
The criteria employed in most textbooks to differentiate "ser" and "estar" followed by an adjective are mainly semantic. Most exercises offer to second language learners too high a proportion of "estar" usages, a practice that leads to overgeneralization with regard to the use of "estar." An experiment was…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Error Analysis (Language), Language Research, Language Usage
Roberts, David; Strickland, James – 1982
The 24 entries in this annotated bibliography are designed to introduce teachers and researchers to the major studies in the field of neurology as it relates to the composing process. Entries in the first section are of works that explain the complex processes and physiology of the brain, while those in the second section are of works attempting…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Language Research, Neurolinguistics
