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Lehmann, W. P. – Language, 1973
Research on which portions of this study are based was performed under a National Science Foundation Grant and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (VM)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Typology

Sampson, Geoffrey – Synthese, 1972
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Digital Computers, Human Development, Language Acquisition

Park, Byung-Soo – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, Korean

Macleod, Catriona – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Deaf Interpreting, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Universals

Chevalier, Jean-Claude – Langue Francaise, 1972
Special issue devoted to language and history. (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Generative Grammar, History

Vennemann, Theodore – Glossa, 1972
Descriptors: Consonants, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics

Newton, D. E. – Journal of Linguistics, 1971
Research supported by a Canada Council Leave Fellowship and the President's Research Fund, Simon Fraser University, Canada. (VM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Distinctive Features (Language)
Lehrer, Adrienne – Linguistic Reporter, 1971
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Deep Structure, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Research

Nilsen, Don L. F. – TESOL Quarterly, 1971
Paper presented at the TESOL Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1971. (VM)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Grammar

de Boysson-Bardies, Benedicte; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1981
Analyzes the late babbling productions of a French child and compares them with data from similar studies of English and Thai children. Shows that although the French child and his English counterparts share some universal phonetic preferences, a selective, language-specific phonetic acquisition takes place during the babbling stage. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English, French

Feldman, Laurie B.; Turvey, M. T. – Language and Speech, 1980
When two Japanese adults named colors written in Kanji, a logographic orthography, and in Kana, a syllabary, the latency to vocalization was consistently less for Kana. This superiority of Kana is attributed to the closer relation of Kana to phonology and, therefore, to speech. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Graphemes, Ideography, Japanese

Wode, Henning – Journal of Child Language, 1977
This paper outlines a proposal to cover four very early stages for the acquisition of negation systems in natural languages. It emphasizes the formal linguistic devices as the major variables that determine the various language-specific developmental sequences. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Language Ability, Language Acquisition

Tong, Malindy; And Others – Language Sciences, 1997
Semantic primitives for time and space, as proposed in Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory, are examined for lexical equivalents in Hong Kong Cantonese. Temporal primitives are all found to have clear Cantonese exponents that can be combined as predicted with other metalanguage elements, with two exceptions. Spatial primitives all appear to have…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar

White, Lydia – Second Language Research, 1992
Responds to a reanalysis of study findings that refute the claim that negative evidence can lead to parameter setting in second-language acquisition, presenting empirical evidence from French learners of English, suggesting that positive second-language acquisition data do not guarantee the loss of native language parameter settings. (26…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), French, Grammar, Interference (Language)
Geurts, Bart – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2003
It has been known for several decades that young children have difficulties with universal sentences. In this article, I present an analysis of the main errors that have been reported in the literature. My proposal is based on an old idea, namely, that children's errors are caused by a noncanonical mapping from syntactic form to semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Sentences, Context Effect, Language Universals