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Ervin, Jane – Grade Teacher, 1969
Part of the Grade Teacher special report, "Linguistics and the Language Arts.
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Grammar, Induction, Language Arts
Cinquino, Agnes Cosgrove – 1982
A study examined the type of Wh question (those introduced by who, what, when, where, why, or how) and the phrase structure rules required for the verb phrase to determine how they relate to the acquisition and development of the Wh question transformation. Children ranging in age from 2 to 6 years were given three tasks, each containing 36…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Competence
St. Clair, Robert N. – 1978
In this essay, the cross cultural conflicts associated with linguistic problems are explored in terms of the development of linguistic theory from 1933 to the present. The linguistic code, positivism, the existential approach to sociolinguistics, linguistic solidarity, defining the situation, language and culture, and cross-cultural conflicts in…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Language Patterns
Hendricksen, Daniel P. – 1978
In this essay, the relationship of American linguistic theory to teaching English as a second language (ESL) is traced over the past few decades. The limitations of the structuralist paradigm in a language learning situation are discussed. The use of pattern drills based on the structuralist surface feature attention to word placement. The…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language), Linguistic Competence
KITZHABER, ALBERT R.
THESE TWO TESTS--"LANGUAGE TEST 1, PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES, 1-6" AND "LANGUAGE TEST 2, PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES, 7-12"--WERE DESIGNED BY THE OREGON CURRICULUM STUDY CENTER FOR A SEVENTH-GRADE LANGUAGE CURRICULUM. THEY ARE INTENDED TO ACCOMPANY CURRICULUM UNITS AVAILABLE AS ED 010 145 AND ED 010 146. (MM)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Grade 7, Grammar
KITZHABER, ALBERT R.
THIS TEST--"LANGUAGE TEST 3, PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES, 13-18"--WAS DESIGNED BY THE OREGON CURRICULUM STUDY CENTER FOR A SEVENTH-GRADE LANGUAGE CURRICULUM. IT IS INTENDED TO ACCOMPANY CURRICULUM UNITS AVAILABLE AS ED 010 147 AND ED 010 148. (MM)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Grade 7, Grammar
KITZHABER, ALBERT R.
THESE TWO TESTS--"EXPANSION OF PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES" AND "SINGLE-BASE TRANSFORMATIONS"--WERE DESIGNED BY THE OREGON CURRICULUM STUDY CENTER FOR AN EIGHTH-GRADE LANGUAGE CURRICULUM. THEY ARE INTENDED TO ACCOMPANY CURRICULUM UNITS AVAILABLE AS ED 010 153 AND ED 010 154. (MM)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Grade 8, Grammar
LIEBERMAN, D.; AND OTHERS – 1966
SCIENTIFIC REPORT NO. 1 OF THIS PROJECT CONTAINS FOUR PARTS. THE FIRST, BY P. ROSENBAUM AND D. LOCHAK, PRESENTS AND EXPLAINS THE "IBM CORE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH" AND GIVES A SET OF 66 DERIVATIONS CONSTRUCTED IN TERMS OF THE CORE GRAMMAR. PART II, "DESIGN OF A GRAMMAR TESTER" BY D. LIEBERMAN, SUMMARIZES THE DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS OF…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computers, Data Processing, English
MOULTON, WILLIAM G. – 1966
NEW ANALYTICAL INSIGHTS INTO THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE BEING TAUGHT CAN BE HELPFUL TO THE LANGUAGE TEACHER. TWO SUCH CONCEPTS, "ENATION" AND "AGNATION," ARE PRESENTED IN H.A. GLEASON'S "LINGUISTICS AND ENGLISH GRAMMAR.""ENATION" IS THE GRAMMATICAL RELATIONSHIP OF TWO SENTENCES WHICH HAVE THE SAME GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE BUT ARE UNRELATED IN MEANING. ONE…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, German, Grammar, Language Instruction
SLOBIN, DAN I.; WELSH, CHARLES A. – 1967
THE AUTHORS HAVE CONCERNED THEMSELVES IN THIS STUDY WITH IMITATION AS A DEVICE BY WHICH THE INVESTIGATOR CAN LEARN ABOUT CHILD LANGUAGE. THE DATA EXAMINED ARE PART OF A LONGITUDINAL THREE-MONTH STUDY OF LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT IN A TWO-YEAR-OLD CHILD. THE REPORT IS BASED ON 1,000 ELICITED IMITATIONS. CERTAIN PHENOMONA WERE OBSERVED GENERALLY WHEN…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – 1980
This volume contains ten articles and a book review. Josef Vachek talks about "Vilem Mathesius as Forerunner of Contrastive Linguistic Studies." In "Contrastive Generative Grammar and the Psycholinguistic Fallacy," Andrew Chesterman discusses methods for accounting for simplification in foreign language learning. Michael Post compares "English…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Finnish, Negative Forms (Language)

Tanaka, Shichiro – 1976
To express that a degree of one event is conditioned by (or paralleled by) a degree of another, the "the...the..." construction with a comparative after each "the" is used. Examples include sentences such as: (1) the more dangerous mountains are to climb, the more challenging they are; (2) the more often a man has been in…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Descriptive Linguistics, English
Warns, Marian K. – 1977
A study on sentence processing involving rehearsal, response initiation, and mental transformation required the subject to perform a secondary task concurrently with transformation of a sentence previously given. A secondary task interruption technique was used to allow inferences as to where the planning occurs by measuring increases in task time…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Language Research, Psycholinguistics
CHENG, ROBERT L. – 1967
THIS REPORT DISCUSSES HOW NOUNS AND THEIR ADJUNCTIVES ARE USED IN MANDARIN SENTENCES IN DENOTING THE RELATION BETWEEN SETS AND THEIR SUBSETS. LANGUAGE HAS SOME MEANS OF SPECIFYING SETS OF OBJECTS, ACTIONS, OR ABSTRACT UNITS IN VARIOUS WAYS, IN ORDER TO HAVE SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION. LANGUAGE DOES NOT BEAR THE ENTIRE BURDEN OF SPECIFYING A CERTAIN…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Language Research
Young, Richard – 1968
A study of the meanings of "generation," a popular term in current rhetorical jargon, reveals important developments in the art and theory of rhetoric. As now used, it refers without clear distinction to rule-governed, heuristic, and trial-and-error procedures. The rule-governed procedures of transformation grammar are being employed to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Processes, Generative Grammar, Problem Solving