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Peer reviewedKrupatkin, Ja. B. – Linguistics, 1974
Original Russian version appeared in "Voprosy jazykoznanija" 3, 1971. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns, Modern Languages
Peer reviewedErickson, Jon L. – Journal of Linguistics, 1973
According to Cowan, an underground rule is one that affects underlying but not surface structure of the item responsible for a phonological change. (DD)
Descriptors: Consonants, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Hall, Robert A., Jr. – 1968
The author presents this monograph as essentially a "prise de position" with regard to certain of the central questions in current debates over the nature of human linguistic systems and techniques of analyzing and describing them. While it is presumed that the reader is already acquainted with the issues being debated in linguistics in the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns
Murav'eva, L. S. – Russkij Yazyk Za Rubezhom, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Language
Peer reviewedPaunonen, Heikki – Linguistics, 1976
Describes a study showing how a linguistic pattern of alternation affecting an entire speech community is realized in individual idiolects; an example representative of colloquial Helsinki speech is used. Results support observations already presented by Labov, according to which linguistic change is linguistically structured to a very high…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Finnish
PDF pending restorationBell, Alan – 1971
Distinction is made between nonsignificant (i.e. definitional or accidental) and significant universals. Two approaches to discovering the significance of universals are characterized and evaluated: the process-state approach, which aims at "transmission-significant" universals, and the transformationalist approach, which seeks for…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedDickerson, Wayne B. – Linguistics, 1975
Spelling patterns in English and their underlying unity are described. A direction for research in the area of Anglo-Saxon and Old English words in present-day English is suggested. (RM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Graphemes
Peer reviewedKrupa, Viktor – Asian and African Studies, 1970
Research supported by the Alexander Humboldt Foundation. (DD)
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Peer reviewedDavis, Stuart; And Others – Italica, 1987
Reviews the limited amount of research regarding ways in which primary stress is assigned to second conjugation infinitives in Italian and then proposes a new perspective taking into consideration root vowels, root-final consonants, syllable onset, monosyllabic vs. polysyllabic roots, and canonical form. (CB)
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Italian
Rey, Alain – Langages, 1973
Special issue on "Changing Linguistics." (DD)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language
Lakoff, Robin – Langages, 1973
Translated from the English; special issue on "Changing Linguistics." (DD)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
Peer reviewedLehmann, W. P. – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Language Patterns
BATESON, MARY CATHERINE – 1967
EACH VOLUME IN THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS LANGUAGE HANDBOOK SERIES, WHICH ENCOMPASSES THE MAJOR MODERN LANGUAGES OF ASIA AND AFRICA, IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE AN OUTLINE OF THE SALIENT FEATURES OF A PARTICULAR LANGUAGE AND A SUMMARY OF THE LANGUAGE SITUATION AND LANGUAGE PROBLEMS OF THE COUNTRY OR AREA IN WHICH IT IS SPOKEN. THE ARABIC…
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Background, Descriptive Linguistics
PDF pending restorationFrink, Orrin – 1975
A statistical analysis of 3,170 entries in the Kotelova and Sorokin dictionary "Novyje slova i znacenija: slovar'-spravocnik po materialam pressy i literatury 60-x godov," Moscow, 1973 and the Stejnfel'dt dictionary "Castotnyj slovar' sovremennogo Russkogo Literaturnogo Jazyka," Moscow, n.d. establishes a clear-cut correlation between the new…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dictionaries, Form Classes (Languages)
Peer reviewedIvic, Pavle – Language Sciences, 1973
Original version of this paper presented during the 1970 Linguistic Institute in Columbus, Ohio. (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Acquisition
