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Bell, 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
Niyekawa-Howard, Agnes M. – 1972
The linguistic relativity hypothesis is the view that the language a person speaks influences his perception of the world. This hypothesis is frequently misunderstood to be a question of the influence of language on culture, when in reality it emphasizes the influence of language on the cognition of its speakers. This distinction between culture…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Acquisition
Johnson, Lawrence – 1973
The author proposes that dissimilation, like assimilation, be considered a natural linguistic process, motivated by perceptual (psychological factors, which operates to preserve the distinctiveness of the stem-affix relationship. Defining dissimilation as the process which occurs when twosegments in the same word share the same phonetic features…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition

Laycock, Don – 1972
This paper presents a linguistic discussion of play-languages--designated as ludlings by the author and tentatively defined as the result of a transformation or a series of transformations acting regularly on an ordinary language text, with the intent of altering the form, but not the content of the original message, for purposes of concealment or…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Styles
Laird, Charlton – 1973
The structure, complexity, and peculiarities of the English language are examined in this book, which begins with a discussion of the nature of language. Chapters are devoted to (1) naming--"Language as Answer to a Need"; (2) grammar--"Language as Economy"; (3) words--"Language as the Finding of Minds"; (4) etymology--"Language to Stretch Brains…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Etymology

Slobin, Dan I. – 1975
Observation of child language development is just one way to study how language changes over time. Developmental psycholinguistics shares much common ground with historical linguistics and with studies of languages in contact and the evolution of pidgins and creoles. By studying the way language changes, this paper focuses on clarifying the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles
Wexler, Kenneth; And Others – 1974
Some aspects of a theory of grammar are presented which derive from a formal theory of language acquisition. One aspect of the theory is a universal constraint on analyzability known as the Freezing Principle, which supplants a variety of constraints proposed in the literature. A second aspect of the theory is the Invariance Principle, a…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Universals
Lamendella, John T. – 1973
While agreeing with psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic theories that suggest that innate language-related cognitive structures are the basis of language development, the author seeks to establish what it is that is innate and what is meant by innateness in the first place. The author considers the claims of psychological relevance made on behalf…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure
Coppola, Carlo – 1972
Despite similarities between Hindi and Urdu and mutual intelligibility, at least on the spoken level, slight grammatical differences between the two languages do exist. The treatment of gender provides an example of such differences. Explanation of the actual differences in gender usage can be based on a synchronic, linguistic level as well as on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Culture, Descriptive Linguistics