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Grimm, Hannelore – Language and Speech, 1975
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition
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Seliger, Herbert W. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This article discusses an experiment designed to examine the relationship between the external explanations that learners give for their language behavior, and actual language performance. The subjects who were native and non-native speakers of English were tested on their use of definite articles. (CFM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language), Grammar
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Stenning, Keith; Michell, Lynn – Discourse Processes, 1985
Reports the results of a study showing that one stylistic feature, the inclusion of connectives other than "and/then" is a good predictor of explanation in five- to ten-year-olds, but a straightforward lack of linguistic resources is not necessarily what limits older children's achievement of explanatory narrative. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
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Lawler, John; Selinker, Larry – Language Learning, 1971
Earlier version of this paper was read at the Kansas Regional Linguistics Conference in Lawrence, Kansas, October 1968. (DS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Generative Grammar, Grammar, Individual Differences
St. Clair, Robert – 1975
The concept of a speech community is investigated within the theoretical frameworks of sociology and linguistics, and it is concluded that the collective competence models of Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky are inadequate. They fail in that they are limited as linguistic models which have consistently overlooked the sociological importance…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Research
Estes, W. K., Ed. – 1978
This book concludes a six-volume review of research and theory on learning and cognition. Its six chapters cover the following topics: theories of semantic memory, comprehension and memory of text, coding processes in memory, perceptual learning from reading, speech perception, and the organization and core concepts of learning theory and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Research
Fremgen, Amy; Fay, David – 1977
Sixteen children (aged 14 to 26 months), who were reported by their parents to overextend, were tested for overextension in both language production and comprehension. The children were first asked to name each of a series of pictures of inappropriate exemplars of the words they were reported to overextend. Those words that were overextended, a…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
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Oller, John W., Jr. – Modern Language Journal, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Language Instruction, Language Research
Barclay, J. R. – 1975
The four papers in this collection discuss language perception and comprehension and report on experiments in those areas. The first paper, "The Influence of Non-Linguistic Knowledge on Perceiving and Verifying Sentences," discusses the reliance of language perception and comprehension on the interaction of linguistic and world…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Context Clues
Cummins, James – 1973
This paper attempts to specify the ways in which bilingualism might affect cognitive functioning. Two general ways, the "linguistic" and the "non-linguistic," are distinguished. Linguistic explanations explain the effects of bilingualism on cognition as a direct result of the fact that the bilingual has access to two verbal…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Cummins, James – 1976
An attempt is made in the present paper to resolve inconsistencies between the results of recent studies which have reported that bilingualism is associated with positive cognitive consequences and earlier studies which suggested that bilingualism might adversely affect cognitive and scholastic progress. Because recent studies involved balanced…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
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Trammell, Robert L. – 1975
In "The Sound Pattern of English," Chomsky and Halle maintain that the phonetic representation of most words can be generated from underlying forms and a small set of rules. Since these underlying forms are frequently close to the traditional spelling, we may hypothesize that literate native speakers share comparable internalized rules which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Generative Phonology, Language Research
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Carr, Diane B. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
Judgements about the acceptability of anomalous and non-anomalous sentences were elicted from children between the ages of 2;0 and 5;0. The aim was to see how the children's direct experience might affect their recognition of semantic constraints, and how far their experience would generalize. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making Skills, Language Acquisition
Fabian, Veronica – 1977
Three empirical studies were conducted to investigate the hypothesis that the "easy to see" construction (such as in the sentence "children are hard to understand") is acquired at a younger age than the 7-9 year range reported by previous studies (Cambon and Sinclair, 1974; Chomsky, 1969; 1972; Cromer, 1970; Kessel, 1970).…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Grammar
Sternberg, Robert J. – 1978
A total of 224 subjects participated in a study to determine how children and adults comprehend logical connectives. Specifically, the study examined the effects of age, content, and practice on the encoding and combination of logical relationships expressed by six types of logical connectives: conjunction, disjunction, conditionality,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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