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Prenuclear Accentuation in English: Phonetics, Phonology, Information Structure
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Bishop, Jason Brandon – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A primary function of prosody in many languages is to convey information structure--the "packaging" of a sentence's content into categories such as "focus", "given" and "topic". In English and other West Germanic languages it is widely assumed that focus is signaled prosodically by the location of a…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Phonetics, Phonology, Sentence Structure
Comparatives in Early Child Language
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Feider, H. – Glossa, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented to the Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, 1972; research partially supported by the Canada Council. (DD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Charts, Child Language, Distinctive Features (Language)
The Acquisition of Agreement in English
Kenney, Terrence J.; Wolfe, Jean – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Preliminary version of this article presented at the meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1971. Research and preparation of the paper supported in part by an Intramural Grant from the Regents of the University of California to T. Kenney. (VM)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Experiments, Language Acquisition
Some Experiments With Queer Sentences
Stolz, Walter S. – Lang Speech, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Experiments, Listening Comprehension
"And" and "or", or the Comprehension of Pseudoimperatives
Springston, Frederick J.; Clark, Herbert H. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported in part by a Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation and by a U.S. Public Health Service Research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. (RS)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Concept Formation, English, Experiments