Linguistic Universals and Their Relevance to TESOL.

Jacobs, Roderick A.

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ERIC Number: EJ012444

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Publication Date: 1969

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Linguistic Universals and Their Relevance to TESOL

Jacobs, Roderick A.

TESOL Quart, 3, 2, 117-122, 69 Jun

"Deletion is posited as a universal process in language, and "identity and "indefiniteness are suggested as universal conditions under which deletion takes place. Usefulness of exploiting language similarities in language teaching is stressed. This paper was presented at the TESOL Convention, Chicago, March 1969. (FWB)

Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Transformational Generative Grammar

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