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Hebrard, Jean – Langue Francaise, 1975
By analyzing different language tests currently in use for elementary school children, the article criticizes psychometric means of evaluation and ideas about language and language acquisition resulting from psychometric evaluation. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Evaluation Methods, French, Language Acquisition
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Goldman, Neil M. – Communications of the ACM, 1975
A model of natural language generation based on an underlying language-free representation of meaning is described. A computer implementation of this model, called BABEL, has been developed at Stanford University. It is able to produce sentence paraphrases which demonstrate understanding with respect to a given context. Available from Association…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Computational Linguistics
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Nadkarni, Mangesh V. – Language, 1975
The syntax of the relative clause in the Saraswat Brahmin dialect of Konkani, an Indo-Aryan language, has been Dravidianized because of the impact of the Dravidian Kannada language, operating through bilingual speakers. The Konkani-Kannada bilingual situation is described and an explanatory account of the syntactic change is given. (Author/CLK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dravidian Languages
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Chapuis, Odile; Gauthier, Michel – Langue Francaise, 1975
Describes an experiment in which the relationship between verbal utterances and communication structures are examined within a group structure. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Content Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Group Behavior
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Bruck, Margaret; Tucker, G. Richard – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1974
A total of 40 lower- and middle-class kindergarten children were given a number of different tasks in order to measure the child's understanding and usage of grammatical rules of English and his ability to use language for effective communication. (ED)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Kindergarten Children, Language Ability, Language Acquisition
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Ford, 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
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