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Peer reviewedPeng, Fred C. C. – Language Sciences, 1975
This paper argues against three premises of language innatism: 1) language is oral; 2) language is species-specific; and 3) man has a built-in language-specific capacity. (CHK)
Descriptors: Language, Language Ability, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedDelaveau, Annie; And Others – Langue Francaise, 1972
Special issued devoted to language and history. (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language, Language Acquisition
Roslansky, John D., Ed. – 1969
This book consists of five lectures on communication given at the fifth Nobel Conference. Leroy G. Augenstein explores the positive and negative consequences of man's increasing capacity to manipulate and control the human mind. Peter Marler demonstrates that all the elements necessary for a communication system to qualify as a language exist…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Download full textSheldon, Amy, Comp. – 1976
This unannotated bibliography consists of 160 citations of books and journal articles dealing with linguistics (traditional grammar, semantics, syntax, morphology, inflectional rules, transformational grammar, generative phonology), language usage, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, verbal behavior, psychology, and the philosophy of…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Generative Phonology, Grammar
Cairns, Charles; Silva, Dolores – 1969
The present level of understanding of the psycholinguistic processes and capacities underlying the child's acquisition of language is reviewed in this publication. In the first chapter, linguistic theories, biological characteristics of language learning, and the distinctions between language competence and language performance are discussed. The…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Center for Curriculum Development in English. – 1967
This Minnesota Curriculum Center report recounts the development of teaching materials on the nature and uses of language for grades 7-12 and presents the first of five seventh-grade units. A description of the origins, purposes, and personnel of the Center is followed by brief discussions of (1) the Center's underlying assumption that a study of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Curriculum Study Centers, Diachronic Linguistics
Rosenberg, Sheldon – 1968
A discussion of research in the area of retardation influenced by recent developments in psycholinguistics, the problem of language assessment, and the problem of language training, first considers a review by D.R. Olson on language, the concept of transformational grammar, syntactic structure of sentences, the acquisition of linguistic meaning,…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Environmental Influences, Exceptional Child Research, Grammar
Wardhaugh, Ronald – 1974
This volume is a collection of articles which are concerned with the field of applied linguistics. Part One, "Language and Linguistics," includes two articles: "Language" and "The Relevance of Linguistics." Part Two, "Linguistics and Spelling," consists of one article, "Sounds and Spellings; Spellings and Sounds." Part Three, "Linguistics and…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects
LENNEBERG, ERIC H. – 1967
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIOLOGY AND LANGUAGE IS EXPLORED IN THIS VOLUME. THE AUTHOR BELIEVES THAT "LANGUAGE IS THE MANIFESTATION OF SPECIES-SPECIFIC COGNITIVE PROPENSITIES. IT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE BIOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES THAT MAKE A HUMAN TYPE OF COGNITION POSSIBLE." IN ATTEMPTING TO "REINSTATE THE CONCEPT OF THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Aphasia, Behavioral Science Research, Biology
