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Bloomfield, Tiffany Corinna – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Among known communication systems, human language alone exhibits open-ended productivity of meaning. Interest in the psychological mechanisms supporting this ability, and their evolutionary origins, has resurged following the suggestion that the only uniquely human ability underlying language is a mechanism of recursion. This "Unique…
Descriptors: Animals, Communication Strategies, Generative Grammar, Psycholinguistics
Willbrand, Mary Louise – 1973
This paper reports on a study conducted to determine the abilities of children to make optional transformations in sentences conjoined with "and." The subjects were 35 middle-class children between the ages of five and eight, who demonstrated average school achievement, spoke standard American English, and had normal speech and hearing. A…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Moerk, Ernst L. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
MCNEILL, DAVID – 1967
THIS IS THE FIRST MAJOR SECTION OF A CHAPTER PREPARED FOR "THE MANUAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY," P.H. MUSSEN, EDITOR, IN PREPARATION. IT IS AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR WRITTEN FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PRESENTS SOME OF THE MAJOR IDEAS THAT HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED IN MODERN LINGUISTIC THEORY, ALONG WITH CERTAIN OF THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL…
Descriptors: Child Development, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Von Raffler Engel, Walburga – 1968
In the current debate about the development of language in children, the author agrees with those psycholinguists who emphasize the role of "imitation followed by analogical extension." That is to say, that if there are inborn discovery procedures for the acquisition of language, they are distributional rather than transformational in nature. On…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels
Braine, Martin D. S. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974
Two claims about early stages of language development--that of a limitation on length of utterance and that of reduction rules which delete major constituents from simple sentences--are questioned. Supporting arguments are reviewed, and alternative explanations offered. (RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Grammar
Shafer, Robert E. – Elementary English, 1974
New discoveries in linguistics call into question established systems of reading instruction. (JH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
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Macnamara, John – Glossa, 1975
A comment on the considerations William Watt must deal with in order to establish his belief that transformational grammar and psychology are at odds in their rules for theory building. (SC)
Descriptors: Information Theory, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance
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Labov, William; Labov, Teresa – Langue Francaise, 1977
A report on a study in progress of the acquisition of a syntax rule: inversion in questions beginning with "Wh..". Its purpose is to show how certain modifications of linguistic theory and practice can contribute to this study and to psychology of language in general. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Stokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 1986
Argues that the beginnings of language need to be sought not in the universal abstract grammar proposed by Chomsky but in the evolution of the everyday interaction of the human species. Studies indicate that there is no great gulf between spoken language and nonverbal communication. (SED)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Deafness, Diachronic Linguistics, Generative Grammar
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Goodman, Kenneth S.; Niles, Olive S. – 1970
Broad and major concerns dealing with reading are set forth in this monograph to provoke discussion and examination by both researchers and practitioners. In Part 1, Kenneth S. Goodman presents a psycholinguistic view of language and reading (within a transformational-generative framework) as essentially a set of processes of recoding, decoding,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels
VON RAFFLER ENGEL, WALBURGA – 1968
THE AUTHOR FEELS THAT TO APPROACH CHILD LANGUAGE TRANSFORMATIONALLY IS TO USE A TECHNIQUE SUITED TO PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INSIGHT INTO A WELL-KNOWN LANGUAGE FOR TREATING AN UNKNOWN, OR AT BEST LITTLE KNOWN LANGUAGE. SHE MAKES THE FOLLOWING CRITICISMS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS OF CHILD LANGUAGE--(1) NOTHING CAN BE DIRECTLY INFERRED WITH REGARD TO…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Hass, Wilbur A. – 1970
Children's language acquisition is viewed by developmental psycholinguists as a process of change in the organization of language processing operations. Normal children seem to acquire their native language by this process, rather than by eliminating specific mistakes. Preschool language develops in stages, and knowledge of where syntactic change…
Descriptors: Child Language, Educational Objectives, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels
O'Donnell, Roy C. – 1976
The relationships between a child's perceptual space and the acquisition of language are discussed in light of the work of Clark, Fillmore, and Chafe. Early language is analyzed as a semantic structure where linguistic ties are established between semantic features and inherent and relational perceptual features. Of these, it is the relational…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics
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Greenfield, Patricia M. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
This article clarifies the position taken in the Greenfield and Smith book (1976), including relation to speech act theory, and elucidates some general theoretical issues in early language development. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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