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Moscoso del Prado Martín, Fermín – Cognitive Science, 2017
Understanding the changes in our language abilities along the lifespan is a crucial step for understanding the aging process both in normal and in abnormal circumstances. Besides controlled experimental tasks, it is equally crucial to investigate language in unconstrained conversation. I present an information-theoretical analysis of a corpus of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Grammar, Aging (Individuals), Gender Differences
Zhang, Xiaopeng – Language Learning, 2017
This study adopted Ambridge's research paradigm to examine the effects of entrenchment, preemption, and verb semantics in second language (L2) acquisition of English "un-" prefixation. Three groups of Chinese learners of English (second- and fourth-year English majors and teachers of English) rated the acceptability of 48 "un-"…
Descriptors: Generalization, Error Analysis (Language), Linguistic Performance, Language Styles

Alegre, Maria A.; Gordon, Peter – Cognition, 1996
Examined processing of noun-noun compounds in which the internal noun is pluralized (such as "new books shelf"), contrary to normal constraints prohibiting such constructions. Tested 36 3- to 5-year olds on their interpretations of compounds fronted by an adjective. Results suggest that children's word formation processes allow complex…
Descriptors: Children, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Learning Theories

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
Delage, Helene; Tuller, Laurice – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: The authors' purpose was to explore the nature of the link between hearing loss (HL) and language impairment in adolescents with mild-to-moderate hearing loss (MMHL). Does language performance (generally or in certain areas) normalize at adolescence? Method: The language skills of 19 French-speaking adolescents (ages 11-15) with moderate…
Descriptors: Written Language, Phonology, Language Skills, Adolescents

Follettie, Joseph F. – 1971
The conditions whereby a concept might be learned on the basis of a language mediation process prior to the inductive learning of subordinate concepts are sketched. The view is expressed that grammar treatments which are apt to primary education should be defined on the basis of a pedagogy's needs for linguistic characterizations of concepts to be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Dore, John – 1974
This paper proposes a theory on how language functions for the child and in what sequence these functions develop. The notion of communicative intention is contrasted with grammatical categories and with the goal of an utterance. Finally, communicative intentions and goals of utterances are contrasted with the innumerable pragmatic purposes which…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Grammar, Higher Education

Boyd, Patricia A. – TESOL Quarterly, 1975
A detailed error analysis was performed on spontaneous and elicited speech samples of Anglo second graders learning Spanish. The results tended to disconfirm the L to the subpower of 1 = L to the subpower of 2 hypothesis that first and second language acquisition follow identical patterns. However, evidence suggests that genuine similarities do…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Patterns, Grammar, Language Acquisition

Maratsos, Michael P.; Kuczaj, Stanley A., II – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly (under the title "What a Child Can Do Before He Will"), 1974
A study was undertaken to determine how much knowledge children have of grammatical systems before they evidence the systems in their spontaneous speech in a productive way. A child aged about two and a half years was examined over several months through elicited imitation causing him to repeat a model sentence immediately after the researcher.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Imitation, Language Acquisition
Marsicano, Hazel E. – 1982
The research literature suggests that the processes involved in language and cognitive development are similar in nature, especially during the early years. Both require some method for assimilation and accommodation of incoming stimuli, both appear to be continuous and hierarchical in nature, and both require the development and refinement of a…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Grammar
Toronto, Allen S.; Toronto, Jane – 1975
The purpose of this study was to investigate the linguistic differences in the spontaneous speech of language-deviant children in two very different situations. Spontaneous speech samples of eleven five-year-old language-deviant children were obtained from: (1) the traditional adult-child therapy situation using appropriate stimulus materials; and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps

Golub, Lester S. – 1974
Certain teaching performances needed to elicit and reinforce specific linguistic performances from the students fall under the categories of speaking a variety of standard English, reading, spelling, vocabulary, and grammatical structures and writing. As a model of linguistic usage, the teacher must speak a standard variety of English, build on…
Descriptors: Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Kess, Joseph F. – 1976
If the question of what it is that is innate is simply left as some kind of human learning potential, this position, representative of the nativist philosophy, does not differ radically from that of behaviorists. The latter position holds that a human being starts out with a mind which is basically empty and receptive to, subject to, and the…
Descriptors: Behavior, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Fabian, Veronica – 1977
Three empirical studies were conducted to investigate the hypothesis that the "easy to see" construction (such as in the sentence "children are hard to understand") is acquired at a younger age than the 7-9 year range reported by previous studies (Cambon and Sinclair, 1974; Chomsky, 1969; 1972; Cromer, 1970; Kessel, 1970).…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Grammar
Hakuta, Kenji – 1977
Comprehension of reversible active and passive sentences was studied with 48 Japanese children between the ages of two and six. Four types of sentences were constructed using passive and active structures and two word orders: subject-object-verb (SOV) and object-subject-verb (OSV). The basic order of elements in a simple sentence in Japanese is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Grammar
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