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Schwartz, Joan Lorraine – 1977
This study investigates the ways adult second language learners deal with errors and trouble sources in their conversations with one another. Specifically, it describes the repair work done by the second language learners, the extralinguistic features accompanying these repairs and the differences between repairs made by speakers at different…
Descriptors: Adults, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis
Miran, Mohammad Alam – 1969
This is a contrastive analysis of Dari and Pashto, both official languages of Afghanistan, with a view toward outlining the difficulties faced by speakers of Dari learning Pashto as a second language. The main focus is on morphological structures, although phonology is also briefly dealt with. The brief phonological comparison, with emphasis on a…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Error Patterns
Wigdorsky-Vogelsang, Leopoldo – 1978
This work is intended to find replies to practical questions, such as how well native speakers of Spanish are decoded by native speakers of English, which errors interfere with decoding by the listener, and what the implications of the study might be for teaching. Fifteen Chileans were asked to tell stories in English, and several panels of native…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, English, English (Second Language)
Bodomo, Adams B. – 1993
An integrated analysis of the syntax and semantics of serial verb constructions (SVCs) in a group of West African languages is presented. With data from Dagaare and closest relatives, a structural definition for SVCs is developed (two or more lexical verbs that share grammatical categories within a clause), establishing SVCs as complex predicates.…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Patterns
Chen, Margaret – 1979
This paper investigates the development of negative Wh-questions in a four year old subject acquiring English as her L1. Spontaneous and elicited speech samples were collected over a period of 6 months. During the course of the study, the subject began to invert subject and auxiliary, and by the end of the study she was inverting correctly in 38%…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Hare, Victoria Chou – 1976
This study addressed four questions raised in syntactic acquisition studies conducted by Carol Chomsky and others. Specifically, questions concerned the nature of syntactic structures in children's language repertoires, the uniformity and rate of acquisition of particular structures, the generalizability of the minimal-distance principle, and the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Prakasham, V.; Verma, S. K. – 1970
This contrastive analysis of Telugu and English covers the structure of sentences, clauses, and "groups" (phrases) from a pedagogical point of view. Areas of difficulty for Telugu-speaking students of English as a second language are listed, and a list of errors commonly made by these students is appended. (JB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English, English (Second Language)
Scollon, Ronald – 1974
In speaking a child sometimes makes constructions in which a sequence of separate utterances expresses a semantic relation not expressed by either utterance. These "vertical constructions" are the main point of this study. Previous studies of construction in child language have largely dealt with sentences. In this study, sentences are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Interaction, Language Acquisition
Wilson, Helen Irene – 1972
Palauan is a relatively undescribed Austronesian language. This dissertation is an attempt to provide an account of the affixes which Palauan verbs can take, since there are complexities associated with almost every affix, with regard to both its phonological form and its syntactic and semantic function. In order to generalize about the verb…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Malayo Polynesian Languages, Morphology (Languages)
Anwar, Mohamed Sami – 1972
This work asserts that contrastive analysis should be regarded as a technique of research and not limited to error prediction and material preparation. Introductory observations are made on the state of the field, the domain of contrastive analysis, contrastive analysis and transfer, and contrastive analysis and foreign language instruction. In…
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies, English
Ramirez, Arnulfo G. – 1974
The purposes of this study were: (1) to describe the developmental trends in the control of spoken English grammatical constructions produced by Spanish-speaking Mexican-American schoolchildren learning English in the elementary grades, and (2) on the basis of this description to assess the comparative development of English structures in pupils…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Child Language, Elementary Education
Tabaian, Hessam – 1975
This study is concerned with the description of compound sentences, relative clauses, and complement clauses in Standard Persian within a generative-transformational grammar. Compound sentences are divided into conjunctive, disjunctive, and adversative types on the basis of the semantic relations they express. A conjunctive clause is either…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Indo European Languages, Language Research
Werdmann, Anne Margaret – 1976
This study investigated semantic aspects of children's language as it is related to emotional expression. Children's ratings of vocabulary items categorized as expressing happy, sad, loving, angry, confident, and scared feelings were examined in three different ways: in isolation, in verbal contexts, and accompanying pictures of emotional…
Descriptors: Child Language, Doctoral Dissertations, Emotional Response, Intermediate Grades
Horvath, Barbara May – 1976
The test performance of 120 Anglo, black, and Chicano third- and fifth-grade children is used to demonstrate the similarities between the processes of diachronic and ontogenetic language change. The instrument used measured the range of knowledge of several grammatical structures. Analysis and interpretation of results suggested the gradual…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Swierzbin, Bonnie – 1996
Phrasal verbs occur frequently in written and spoken English and may be difficult for non-native speakers to understand and produce, particularly when parts of the phrasal verb should be separated and when they should be adjacent. The study reported here analyzes natural data in context to determine whether the word order of the parts of a…
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Grammar, Instructional Materials
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