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Adam Liter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation presents a series of case studies concerned with whether the signal in a given set of measurements that we take in the course of linguistic inquiry reflects grammatical competence or performance factors. We know that performance and competence do not always covary, yet it is not uncommon to assume that measurements that we take…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grammar, Linguistic Competence, Measurement Techniques
Tosuncuoglu, Irfan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
Language is seen as a system for communicative purposes and as such it involves more than just a structural organization. Indeed this view of language considers different kinds of competence which make communication really meaningful: linguistic, sociolinguistic discourse, and strategic. Linguistic competence is what we usually regard as the basis…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, Social Environment
Palermo, David S.; Parrish, Michael – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Research supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Public Health Service Research Center, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (DS)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Language Research, Learning Theories
Lakshmanan, Usha – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
Within child language acquisition research, there has been a fair amount of controversy regarding children's knowledge of the grammatical properties associated with verbal inflection (e.g., tense, agreement, and aspect). Some researchers have proposed that the child's early grammar is fundamentally different from the adult grammar, whereas others…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Speech, Phonology, Verbs

Duchan, Judith; Lund, Nancy J. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
This study is an attempt to investigate the efficacy of using existing semantic relations categories for understanding how children comprehend the verb "with" + noun construction. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Robinson, Jane J. – 1975
Evidence is offered to support the view that linguistic competence cannot in principle be divorced from linguistic performance in order to abstract universal properties of grammars, that rules of grammar inevitably incorporate perceptual strategies and constraints, and that grammaticality and acceptability are related to predictability. A theory…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, Language Universals, Language Usage

Elardo, Richard – Child Development, 1971
Study offers some evidence which bears on the amount of influence of the environment upon linguistic capacity. (Author)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Environmental Influences, Grammar, Language Acquisition

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
Labov, William – 1978
This paper is a response to Lavandera's question regarding the limits of the study of language variation. Sociolinguistics is characterized by its desire to limit representational meaning much more narrowly than formal linguistics. In addition while formal linguistics views language as species-specific and designed to accomodate logical…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Research, Language Variation

Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1984
Expands on study by Brown and Hanlon which showed that parents seemed more attuned to semantic value of their child's speech rather than grammatical form. However, this more recent study suggests that language learning environment presents subtle cues, distinguishing between well-formed and ill-formed sentences, evidenced by mothers' inclinations…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Grammar, Language Acquisition

Butters, Ronald R. – Language Sciences, 1972
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Grammar, Language, Language Research
Slakta, Denis – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1975
This article outlines a model of the two basic components of a text, namely, the system of formal linguistic rules, and the realization of these rules into concrete discourse, by means of particular transformations. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research

Abraham, Roberta G. – TESOL Quarterly, 1984
Analysis of two studies (interpreted in terms of the distinction between language acquisition and language learning) showed that subjects tended to cluster the -s's on a few verbs rather than randomly, suggesting that the morpheme may be acquired not in isolation but attached to particular verbs. (SL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Research, Linguistic Competence

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

Eisikovits, Edina – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1977
This assumption that non-standard speakers are limited in their linguistic ability is examined based on a larger study investigating the speech of working-class adolescents in Sydney, Australia's inner-city areas. Speech samples of four children are presented. An examination of verbal structures reveals that there is a predominance of simple…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grammar, High School Students, Language Research