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Bellugi, Ursula – 1965
The verbal behavior of three children was sampled. The samples were analyzed to obtain a picture of three stages of the children's language development, specifically the interrogative structures. Each stage was about 4- or 5-months long, starting at the 18th to 28th month, depending upon the child's level of linguistic ability. The interrogative…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency, Language Research, Preschool Children
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Nuessel, Frank H., Jr. – 1977
This is an annotated bibliography of generative-based grammatical analyses of Spanish, with emphasis on studies in phonology and morphology. The 116 entries, arranged by author, include books, journal articles, dissertations and relevant research papers both in English and in Spanish. A list of abbreviations and a list of related bibliographies…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research
Blass, Rosanne Johnson – 1975
The purpose of this study was to synthesize theories and known facts of language acquisitions provided by transformation-generative grammarians and the cognitive theories of Piaget and Vygotsky into a unified theory and to suggest a partial model of the reading process. Review and analysis of transformational-generative theory strongly indicate…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Theories, Higher Education, Language Acquisition
Cromie, David – 1974
This paper brings together modern linguistic theory (particularly transformational-Generative analysis), psycholinguistic research, and educational objectives underlying the teaching of language in order to develop a methodology compatible with the philosophy of "the New English." Based on the premise that at its best, the New English is…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Methods, Educational Objectives, English Instruction
Berdan, Robert – 1973
The use of "have,""got,""have got," and alternate forms was investigated in the speech of Anglo and black grade-school children from lower and middle income neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Techniques were devised to elicit multiple occurrences of the construction, including questions and negatives. One technique used was a convergent communication…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Patterns
Rodman, Robert – 1972
A number of grammatical transformations are studied which often, but not always, involve the movement of constituents. Data from English, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Mandarin Chinese and Thai are investigated in an attempt to discover a principle (of potentially universal scope) that governs certain constraints that must be imposed on these…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English, Grammar
Nieger, Monique; Paradis, Monique – 1975
This study is divided into two sections: the first examines Standard French indirect interrogation, noting several distinct verb classes which are discussed in terms of permutations of WH-words, reduction, multiple WH-words, cleavage, semantic compatibility, and the "que-" completive; the second part focuses on indirect interrogation and…
Descriptors: French, Language Standardization, Language Styles, Language Usage
Devillers, Colette – 1974
Together with a study of object complements, a succinct description of the Malay classifier construction is given. Object complementation is studied in a generative-transformational framework. For sentence object complements, four types of surface structure are proposed, but it is claimed that two types of deep structure trees underlie the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Indonesian
Moran, Terence Patrick – 1971
Since critical thinking is given a prominent place in language study, English education should be concerned with analyzing propaganda, not promoting it. In 1937 the Institute for Propaganda Analysis was founded to combat the prolific rise of propaganda in the U.S. Since then many modifications have grown out of the continuing studies of critical…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Critical Thinking, Instructional Materials, Language Arts
Blaubergs, Maija S. – 1974
Early psycholinguistic investigations were based on linguistic theory (primarily Chomsky's transformational theory) as a model of competence. Recent studies have suggested that naive language users neither make the same linguistic judgments as the theorizing linguists nor productively follow the linguistic rules, and that nonlinguistic knowledge…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Context Clues, Imagination
Legum, Stanley Emanuel – 1975
Constraining linguistic metatheory by demanding that it allow the construction of grammars for all the frequently occurring idiolects of standard American English is shown to narrow the choices among competing theoretical positions. In this way data from a nonhomogeneous speech community are used to illuminate rather than cloud a theoretical…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, North American English
Bivens, William P., III; Edwards, Allan B. – 1974
Though a general study of transformational grammar does not improve writing ability, students can learn to use transformational operations which combine and reduce clauses to make better sentences. Since students already know intuitively how to do the operations, transformational theory in the classroom is largely limited to sentence-combining…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Experimental Teaching, High School Students, Linguistic Theory
Platero, Paul R., Ed. – 1974
The purpose of this journal is to provide useful exchange of information among Navajo teachers. The articles in this issue deal with Navajo linguistics. Kenneth Hale and Paul Platero present an analysis of the relative clause in Navajo. Part 1 analyzes relativization forms and formulates structural descriptions for relativization rules, with…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
Ingram, David – 1970
This paper, based on Rosenbaum's (1967) grammar of adult English, attempts to apply ideas of deep structure and transformations to child grammar. The main rules predicated include phrase structure rules, segment structure rules, contextual features, and transformational rules. In this approach, the role of transformations is to segment and place…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Acquisition
McNamer, Patrick F. – 1974
The syntactic relationship between the quantifier and the noun phrase (NP) and the function of the quantifier in the sentence are studied. In the first part of the paper, the theories of several linguists concerning the structure of the NP that includes a quantifier are reviewed. In parts 2 and 3 a syntactic description of the quantifier is…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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