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Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F.; Chang, Franklin – Language, 2012
Children (aged five-to-six and nine-to-ten years) and adults rated the acceptability of well-formed sentences and argument-structure overgeneralization errors involving the prepositional-object and double-object dative constructions (e.g. "Marge pulled the box to Homer/*Marge pulled Homer the box"). In support of the entrenchment hypothesis, a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sentence Structure, Semantics, Verbs
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Espinal, M. Teresa – Language, 1991
Describes the interaction between disjunct constituents and sentential structures and argues for an extension of the theoretical apparatus intially postulated in autosegmental phonology to represent complex syntactic structures containing disjunct constituents with a number of independent phrase markers that intersect at the linear axis. (66…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Phonology, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
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Shibatani, Masayoshi – Language, 1973
Expanded version of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, December 1970, in Washington, D.C. Work supported by a Grace W. Drake Scholarship, a University of California graduate scholarship, and a National Science Foundation grant to the Phonology Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
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Berman, Arlene; Szamosi, Michael – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation
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Schmerling, Susan F. – Language, 1974
Paper presented at the 1972 Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chapel Hill, N.C. (DD)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Intonation, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
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Lehmann, W. P. – Language, 1973
Research on which portions of this study are based was performed under a National Science Foundation Grant and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (VM)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Typology