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Berent, Iris; Lennertz, Tracy; Balaban, Evan – Language and Speech, 2012
Certain ill-formed phonological structures are systematically under-represented across languages and misidentified by human listeners. It is currently unclear whether this results from grammatical phonological knowledge that actively recodes ill-formed structures, or from difficulty with their phonetic encoding. To examine this question, we gauge…
Descriptors: Cues, Syllables, Phonetics, Language Universals
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Di Sciullo, Anna Maria; Aguero-Bautista, Calixto – Language and Speech, 2008
The Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) has been discussed in various studies that show that children around age 5 seem to violate Principle B of Binding Theory (Chomsky, 1981, and related works), when the antecedent of the pronoun is a name, but not when the antecedent is a quantifier. The analysis we propose can explain the DPBE in languages of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Children, Grammar, Language Processing
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Crain, Stephen – Language and Speech, 2008
Child and adult speakers of English have different ideas of what "or" means in ordinary statements of the form "A or B". Even more far-reaching differences between children and adults are found in other languages. This tells us that young children do not learn what "or" means by watching how adults use "or". An alternative is to suppose that…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Research, Semantics, Child Language
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Beyn, E. S.; And Others – Language and Speech, 1979
Russian patients with different types of aphasia experienced different problems in their performance on two types of linguistic operations. The efferent motor group exhibited more grammatico-structural disturbances, while the afferent motor and sensory aphasics exhibited grammatico-semantic disturbances. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries
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Moore, Timothy E. – Language and Speech, 1975
Data obtained from seventh graders does not support Chomsky's hierarchy of language rules, whereby degrees of sentence grammaticality can be assigned to ungrammatical sentences. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 7, Grammar, Language Research
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Tikofsky, Ronald S.; Reiff, Donald G. – Language and Speech, 1970
Attempts to determine whether college students show general agreement and consistency over time in their preferences for and judgments of languge strings. (MB)
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Decision Making
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Scholl, Dennis M.; Ryan, Ellen Bouchard – Language and Speech, 1980
When kindergarten, second-, and fourth-grade children judged and repeated sentences that varied grammatically, the older children produced more accurate judgments, but no age differences were noted for repetition. Unbiased judgment accuracy correlated with prereaders' reading readiness scores, providing evidence for the relationship between the…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Grammar, Knowledge Level
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Peperkamp, Sharon – Language and Speech, 2003
Infants' phonological acquisition during the first 18 months of life has been studied within experimental psychology for some 30 years. Current research themes include statistical learning mechanisms, early lexical development, and models of phonetic category perception. So far, linguistic theories have hardly been taken into account. These…
Descriptors: Phonology, Experimental Psychology, Linguistic Theory, Infants
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Snow, Catherine E.; Hoefnagel-Hohle, Marian – Language and Speech, 1979
Finds significant correlations between scores on vocabulary tests and tests of syntax and morphology, suggesting two major second language learning factors (grammar and vocabulary/phonological ability). Relates these results to hypotheses concerning individual differences in strategies of first and second language learning. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Adults, Grammar, Individual Differences, Language Proficiency
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Garnham, A. – Language and Speech, 1987
Investigates the availability of surface representations for the interpretation of verb-phrase ellipsis. Results show that an elliptical verb phrase is most easily interpreted if its antecedent is in the immediately preceding sentence and that this can not be explained in terms of the unnaturalness of the passages with distant antecedents. (MM)
Descriptors: Encoding (Psychology), Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research
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Landon, Sarah J.; Sommers, Ronald K. – Language and Speech, 1979
When 20 highly talkative and 20 much less talkative preschool children were measured for articulation, grammar, receptive syntax, and sentence repetition, the performances of the highly talkative children were significantly superior on all measures. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Communication Research, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
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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