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Kandiah, T. – Language Learning, 1970
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Linguistic Theory
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Whitman, Randal L. – Language Learning, 1970
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, English (Second Language)
Gueunier, Nicole – Franc Dans Monde, 1970
Descriptors: French, Language Instruction, Language Research, Language Styles
Rutherford, William E. – TESOL Quart, 1969
A somewhat modified version of a paper presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, May 1969. (FWB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Universals
Di Pietro, Robert J. – TESOL Quart, 1970
States that language teaching materials aimed at producing competence in a language must be based on a knowledge of the rules underlying the language and considers transformational generative grammar as essential in developing such materials. (FB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance
Beall, Lewis L. – Elem Engl, 1970
Maintains that students' understanding of the language structure" is of relatively low priority in elementary language arts education. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Instructional Materials, Language Programs
Gaer, Eleanor P. – J Verb Learning Verb Beh, 1969
Results of tests comparing the ability of children and adults to understand and produce sentences according to type (active, question, passive, negative) and complexity (simple, center-embedding, double-embedding). (Author/FWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Child Language, Deep Structure
White, John – Coll Composition Commun, 1969
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Diagrams, English Instruction, Higher Education
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Smith, Ernie A. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1978
Three linguistic theories (the creolist, the transformationalist, and the ethnolinguistic) of the origin and historical development of Ebonics in America are examined. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition
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Prideaux, Gary D. – Glossa, 1979
Proposes an alternative to transformational grammars, based on the notion that a grammatical system should be open to psycholinguistic interpretation, and disallowing grammatical transformations, dealing instead with the information content of sentence surface structure. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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Smith, Gayle L. – Exercise Exchange, 1980
Suggests using a sentence construction game to make basic writing students more aware of their linguistic ability and more comfortable dealing with grammar. Indicates that the experience helps students in revising their writing and introduces the experience of working creatively and playfully with language. (TJ)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Higher Education, Low Achievement, Secondary Education
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Mandler, Jean M.; Johnson, Nancy S. – Cognitive Psychology, 1977
The report presents an analysis of the underlying structure of simple stories and examines the implications of such structure for recall. Data comparing recall by children and adults suggest that story schemata differ somewhat at various points in development and that consequently there are qualitative differences in recall. (RC)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis
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Brakel, C. Arthur – Linguistics, 1976
The purpose of this paper is to examine process- and agent-oriented sentences from the point of view of two theories of grammatical description: case grammar after Fillmore and tranformational grammar with modifications introduced by Chomsky. Subject and object functions are reflected in the initial structures of sentence derivation, regardless of…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, English, Portuguese
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Bergen, John J. – Language Sciences, 1977
A significant discovery of generative theory is that the features present in a lexical entry in a sentence's deep structure influence choice and arrangement of words in the surface structure. The systemic and nonsystemic functions of Spanish count and measure entity nouns are elaborated and analyzed. (CHK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Nouns
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Russell, William M. – Linguistics, 1975
The linguist does not usually describe grammatical structures of stylized sentences because there are none well-formed on the surface. He could use rules for organizational and relational features of the grammar which affect the last lines of generation to produce deviant but acceptable linguistic forms, thereby increasing the predictive power of…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Styles, Language Usage
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