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Klecan-Aker, Joan S.; And Others – Language and Speech, 1983
Describes a study that examines the pragmatic language functions used by school-age children during a structured dialog consisting of a question-answer paradigm. Develops a 10-category taxonomy to classify subjects' responses and finds the taxonomy to be effective in two ways: (1) the number of categories is sufficient, and (2) the interscorer…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Arciuli, Joanne; Cupples, Linda – Language and Speech, 2003
The experiments reported here were designed to investigate the influence of stress typicality during speeded grammatical classification of disyllabic English words by native and non-native speakers. Trochaic nouns and iambic verbs were considered to be typically stressed, whereas iambic nouns and trochaic verbs were considered to be atypically…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Semantics, Verbs, Nouns
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Pan, Ho-hsien – Language and Speech, 2004
This study used perceptual and articulatory data to investigate a language specific phonemic inventory, and allophonic rules for homorganic initial voiced stops versus homorganic nasal stops, and oral versus nasal vowels in Taiwanese. Four experiments were conducted: concept formation, gating, and two airflow studies. Results of a first nasal…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Phonetics, Vowels, Concept Formation