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Peer reviewedCeci, Louis G. – College English, 1983
Describes and suggests the significance of syntactic imagery, poetic effects created through expressive grammatical structures. (MM)
Descriptors: College English, Deep Structure, Grammar, Imagery
Peer reviewedGordon, W. Terrence – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1986
The linguistic complexity of humor is illustrated with examples of word play translated from French to English and English to French. Examples from the writings of James Joyce and Marcel Proust are highlighted. (CB)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, French, Humor
Peer reviewedMatthei, Edward H. – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Two experiments indicating that children's linguistic generalizational biases change from a semantically-based system to a syntactical-structural system provide evidence for a semantic-relational bias in children's early grammars and support the notion that children's generalizational biases shift from a semantic-relational basis to a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Language Acquisition
