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Schelstraete, M. A.; Degand, L. – Language Sciences, 1998
Reports three studies of comprehension of French subject relative clauses and two forms of object relative clauses. The first tested the hypothesis that competition between noun phrases, memory load, and perspective maintenance determine difficulty of role assignment in reversible relative clauses; others compared subject relatives and inverted…
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Peeters, Bert – Language Sciences, 1997
Explores the combinatorial possibilities of semantic primitives of time and space in French, as defined in the theory of Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Highlights the need for new ways to express the allolexical relationship in some combinations, particularly those expressing "when/time." (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Scott, Robert Ian – Language Sciences, 1974
Reports research at the University of Saskatchewan in which experiments with variously rearranged English and French sentences showed grammatical acceptability decreasing as the disruption of the sentence producing field of subject, verb, object, qualifier increased. (RM)
Descriptors: English, French, Language Patterns, Language Research