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Peer reviewedIvimey, G. P.; Lachterman, D. H. – Language and Speech, 1980
Analyzes the written syntax of a group of profoundly deaf English children aged 10 to 11 years, utilizing a controlled elicitation sampling method used earlier with a single child. Demonstrates and describes the structured nature of deaf children's syntax, which shows similarities with 2 to 2 1/2-year-old hearing children's syntax. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Deafness, Phrase Structure
Peer reviewedScholes, R. J. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Cues
Peer reviewedGarnham, 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
Peer reviewedWolff, J. Gerard – Language and Speech, 1980
Reports part of a continuing project to develop a theory of children's first-language acquisition using computer modeling techniques. Notes the correspondence of structures formed by the computer program with recognized structures in English. Discusses anomalies in the program's performance. (RL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Computer Oriented Programs, Language Acquisition, Language Research
