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Clark, Herbert H.; Begun, Jeffrey S. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comprehension, Experiments
Ingram, David – 1970
This paper, based on Rosenbaum's (1967) grammar of adult English, attempts to apply ideas of deep structure and transformations to child grammar. The main rules predicated include phrase structure rules, segment structure rules, contextual features, and transformational rules. In this approach, the role of transformations is to segment and place…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Lakoff, George – 1965
This dissertation is an attempt to characterize the notion "exception to a rule of grammar" within the context of Chomsky's conception of grammar as given in "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax." This notion depends on a prior notion of "rule government"--in each phrase marker on which a transformational rule may…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Context Free Grammar, English