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Charles Patrick O'Hara – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation investigates the soft typology of phonological patterns. By studying the types of patterns observed in the world's languages, we can do more than determine what is attested and what is unattested, or what is possible and what is impossible, but discover a wide range of more gradient phenomena. Phonological patterns range from…
Descriptors: Bias, Phonology, Grammar, Language Classification
Gao, Jianwu; Ma, Shuang – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
This study explored the interaction between learning conditions, linguistic complexity, and first language (L1) syntactic transfer in semiartificial grammar learning by conceptually replicating and extending Tagarelli et al. (2016). We changed the L1 background, elicited production data during debriefing, and added a binary mixed-effects logistic…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Difficulty Level, Syntax, Artificial Languages
Family, Neiloufar; Allen, Shanley E. M. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
The acquisition of systematic patterns and exceptions in different languages can be readily examined using the causative construction. Persian allows four types of causative structures, including one productive multiword structure (i.e. the light verb construction). In this study, we examine the development of all four structures in Persian child…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Indo European Languages, Form Classes (Languages)
Choe, Jinsun – ProQuest LLC, 2012
English-speaking children exhibit difficulty in their comprehension of raising patterns, such as (1), in which the NP the boy is semantically linked to the VP in the embedded clause, but is syntactically realized as the subject of the matrix clause. (1) Raising pattern: [s "The boy" seems to the girl [s _ to be happy]]. This dissertation…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Language, Language Patterns, Syntax
Smith, Charlotte T. – 1977
One method of evaluating comprehension and language growth consists of analyzing the oral or written answers to questions about stories read to or by students and about visual representations. The method is applicable to various content areas at all levels of instruction. The T-unit or communication unit, the linguistic unit that cannot be further…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
Hyams, Nina – 1987
Outside the core grammar, the set of "peripheral" or marked properties of a language include exceptions or relaxations of the settings of core grammar and the idiosyncratic features of the language governed by particular lexical items. The core/peripheral distinction has direct implications for grammatical development in children. The…
Descriptors: Child Language, Difficulty Level, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition
Gordon, Alice M. – 1975
The complexity of language of four, five, and six year old children was examined in a psycholinguistic study that attempted to differentiate the characteristics of sentences that were difficult for children to comprehend from those which were easy, and to discover whether children used a subject-verb-object (S-V-O) language strategy to interpret…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Difficulty Level

Dromi, Esther; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
This study of 15 Hebrew-speaking preschool children with specific language impairment and 2 comparison groups tentatively supported the notion that grammatical morphemes were less difficult for subjects if they take the form of stressed and/or lengthened syllables and if they appear in a language in which nouns, verbs, and adjectives must be…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Hebrew
Clark, Eve V. – 1993
A discussion of language acquisition assumes that lexicon plays a central role, and that the principles of conventionality and contrast are also essential. It examines the hypotheses children draw on about possible word meanings and how they map their meanings into forms. This process begins with children's emerging knowledge of conventional words…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Difficulty Level, English