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Spolsky, Bernard – 1969
Redundancy in language reduces the possiblity of error and permits communication where there is interference in the communicating channel. The relationship between creativity (the basic distinction between language-like behavior and knowing a language) and redundancy has been clearly established. Knowledge of rules is the key factor in creativity…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Redundancy
Friedman, Joyce – 1968
For the two years prior to this report the Computational Linguistics Project in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University was engaged in research leading to computer programs for accepting and manipulating transformational grammars corresponding to a version of the theory based on Chomsky's "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax." These…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Phrase Structure
Friedman, Joyce – 1968
The papers in this volume describe computer runs with six different transformational grammars, in each case using the computer system for transformational grammar described in AL 002 220. They are collected as examples which, it is hoped, will encourage other linguistics to use the system. The motivation for the first three projects described was…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, English
Stokoe, William C., Jr. – 1970
In this paper the author takes a positive not a negative view of sign language. It is the center of attention, not as an object of interest to the specialist in language, but as the central feature in the complex sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic system that makes the deaf person part of general American culture and at the same time part of a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Classroom Research, Deafness, Finger Spelling
Steinberg, Danny D. – 1972
Chomsky and Halle claim that an orthography based on their underlying phonological representations (UPR) of lexical items would be optimal for English. This paper challenges two of Chomsky and Halle's basic phonological assumptions: (1) that their Vowel Shift Rule is valid, and (2) that derived words do not appear as wholes in the lexicon. A less…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Orthographic Symbols, Phonemes
Zwicky, Arnold M. – 1973
The 22 entries of this bibliography constitute a survey of linguistic literature published between 1914 and 1973 on forestress and afterstress in noun compounds and phrases in English. The bibliography is actually divided into three sections. In Part 1, the introductory remarks, a summary of the various approaches to the problem of compounds and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Bibliographies, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
Moravcsik, Edith A. – 1971
Four hypotheses concerning the linguistic structure of yes-no questions and their answers are considered as hypotheses relating to the abstract structure of yes-no questions and to this abstract structure in all human languages. The universal base hypotheses are the following: (1) The abstract representation of all yes-no questions includes two…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Questioning Techniques
Tiedt, Iris McClellan – 1972
This study investigated the impact of English linguistics on elementary school English textbooks published during the decade 1961-1970. The study examined seventeen sixth grade English texts in order to determine trends in the treatment of English grammar. Data were divided to show contrasts between texts published before Roberts' Series…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, English, Grade 6, Language Usage
Lado, Robert; And Others – 1970
This text, developed at the English Language Institute, is designed to enable the student of English as a second language to practice selected patterns of English speech. Required linguistic variations ensure that the student does not repeat the same sentence. His attention is drawn to changes in the pattern by the use of diagrams, pictures, or…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Language Instruction, Language Skills
Borgh, Enola – 1972
Modern transformational grammars can be effective tools for writing, for they offer hypotheses and generalizations about English sentences which can be used in an infinite number of linguistic contexts. One writing skill which transformational grammars can help students achieve is the ability to choose between synonymous expressions. Some…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Evaluation Criteria, Rhetoric, Sentences
Grosu, Alexander; Lee, Gregory – 1971
This volume of working papers includes two papers concerned with syntactic analysis in English. The first paper deals with a number of problems that arise in conjunction with the necessary, allowed, or disallowed coreferentiality of a complement sentence subject with some noun-phrase in a higher sentence. The author seeks to prove that the…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
BLAIR, FRED; ROSENBAUM, PETER S. – 1966
RESEARCH IN THREE AREAS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS IS DESCRIBED--(1) THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR FOR A SUBSET TO GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES IN ENGLISH, (2) THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS GRAMMAR IN TERMS OF A SENTENCE SYNTHESIZING PROGRAM WRITTEN IN LISP 1.5, AND (3) THE USE OF SENTENCE SYNTHESIZING PROGRAMS FOR…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Deep Structure, English, Grammar
Elgin, Suzette Haden – 1975
This booklet is intended to enable the beginner in the field of transformational grammar to read and gain information about much of the contemporary scholarly literature on grammar (of foreign languages as well as of English). Sections in the book discuss phrase structure grammar; transformational rules--movement rules, insertion rules,…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Generative Phonology, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
Pettersson, Ake; Lindell, Ebbe – 1976
This progress report describes a Swedish project which is seeking to develop and test materials for writing practice. Experimental materials focus on the sentence, giving students practice in the formation of more advanced constructions. Emphasis in the control program is on a variety of types of written composition (e.g., narratives,…
Descriptors: Instruction, Secondary Education, Sentence Combining, Sentence Structure
O'Donnell, Roy C. – 1976
The relationships between a child's perceptual space and the acquisition of language are discussed in light of the work of Clark, Fillmore, and Chafe. Early language is analyzed as a semantic structure where linguistic ties are established between semantic features and inherent and relational perceptual features. Of these, it is the relational…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics
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