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Bird, Elizabeth Kay-Raining; Cleave, Patricia L.; Curia, Joanne; Dunleavy, Michelle – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2008
In this case study, all parental talk directed to a young child with autism at home over a 3-day period was analyzed for internal state (IS) language, which explicitly focuses upon the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of animate beings. The mother and father used IS terms in 33% and 24% of their utterances, respectively, with sensory and desire…
Descriptors: Autism, Linguistic Input, Case Studies, Parent Child Relationship
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Schulte, K. – Language Sciences, 2007
It is cross-linguistically common for languages to undergo a diachronic increase in the range of adverbial notions that can be expressed by means of infinitival constructions, and the Romance languages are a good example of this process. Examining the development of adverbial "prepositional infinitive" constructions in Spanish, Portuguese and…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Romance Languages, Spanish
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Kraus, David – The Slavic and East European Journal, 1961
Scientific Russian vocabulary, as represented by substantives among the lead entries of a 1955 polytechnic Russian dictionary, is analyzed compositionally and by source language. (GK)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Dictionaries, Etymology
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Kidder, Carole L.; Golub, Lester S. – Computers and the Humanities, 1976
A computer program for measuring the complexity of syntactic structures in different levels of graded reading materials and in children's oral and written language is presented. (RW)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Data Analysis, Language Acquisition
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Abkarian, G. G. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1988
Production of the deictic verbs "bring" and "take" was evaluated among 88 normally functioning elementary school children. Results showed that data evaluation procedures greatly influenced conclusions, the second-to-emerge form was easier to learn in a conventional way, and the second term was the proactive stimulus for…
Descriptors: Child Language, Data Analysis, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods