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Hunt, Kellogg W. – Monogr Soc Res Child Develop, 1970
Investigates the differences in syntactical structure of sentences written by school children of different ages and of different abilities within the same grade. Writing of certain adults is also studied. (MH)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Structural Analysis, Structural Grammar
Download full textKolln, Martha; Hancock, Craig – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
This article assumes the value of a scientifically grounded, rhetorically focused, professionally supported, and publicly embraced grammar within the public schools and examines the past century of practices within the United States from that perspective. It describes a brief renaissance in the 50's and early 60's, inspired largely by the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Grammar, Structural Grammar, Generative Grammar
Peer reviewedMayer, Judith Winzemer; And Others – Cognition, 1978
The basic-operations hypothesis predicts that for any transformation which is composed of more than one basic operation, there exists a class of errors in children's speech correctly analyzed as failure to apply one (or more) of the operations specified in the adult formulation of the rule. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition
