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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
Hass, Wilbur A. – 1970
The author raises the question of what one can say about the structure of a person's language from a sample of his speech production and urges the calculating of information theory parameters for grammatical constructions. What has to be done is to decide what construction to focus on and what types to recognize as exemplifying that construction.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Information Theory, Language Acquisition, Nouns

Fonagy, I. – Lingua, 1975
The syntax of adult expressive language is compared to that of child pre-language. This "syntactical regression" is considered part of the dynamic and evolutionary character of human language. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Goldberg, Genevieve – Linguistique, 1976
Criticizes traditional methods of defining the syntactical complexity of utterances and proposes distinguishing the various types of subordination in the sentence as well as elements of continuity and discontinuity in discourse structure, with particular reference to child language. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition
Bergmann, Gunter – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1971
Descriptors: German, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Research

Combettes, Bernard – Langue Francaise, 1978
Examines the nature of thematization and thematic progression in children's narrative styles, in order to draw some conclusions regarding the acquisition of textual skills. (AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Coherence, Discourse Analysis, French
Bentolila, Alain – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1977
A comparison of the linguistic development of the young child and the language of advertising. It is noted that relative structural identity exists between certain advertisements and certain linguistic productions of the child because of the similarity of conditions in which the linguistic tool is used. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition

Goldberg, Genevieve – Langue Francaise, 1977
A discussion of syntax and different kinds of expression based on discourse analysis of children aged ten to twelve. The extent to which linguistic structures and syntax are determined by the type of language usage and expression is studied. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, French

Kidder, Carole L.; Golub, Lester S. – Computers and the Humanities, 1976
A computer program for measuring the complexity of syntactic structures in different levels of graded reading materials and in children's oral and written language is presented. (RW)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Data Analysis, Language Acquisition
Bellugi, Ursula – 1965
The verbal behavior of three children was sampled. The samples were analyzed to obtain a picture of three stages of the children's language development, specifically the interrogative structures. Each stage was about 4- or 5-months long, starting at the 18th to 28th month, depending upon the child's level of linguistic ability. The interrogative…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency, Language Research, Preschool Children

Fiege-Kollman, Laila – 1972
A detailed description of the syntax in the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Mod 2 Kindergarten stories is presented to aid in the formulation of comprehension assessment and instruction. The lexicon and surface structures of the sentences appearing in the stories were classified and tabled in terms of types of elements and functions. The new…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Research, Instructional Materials, Kindergarten Children
Moravcsik, Edith – 1972
Six papers dealing with crosslinguistic generalizations are summarized and discussed here. Two of them were about question structure: "Language Universals and Sociocultural Implications in Deviant Usage: Personal Questions in Swedish" by C. Paulston and "Valley Zapotec: Identical Rule for Both wh Question Movement and Relative Clause Constituent…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, Grammar

Brogan, Patrick; And Others – 1969
Three papers from this issue of the Working Papers are provided here. "The Nesting Constraint in Child Language," by Patrick Alan Brogan, discusses a child's ability to perform complex, internally embedded sentences. It is hypothesized that difficulty stems from a child's limited short-term memory. "A Framework for Studying Kin Term…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency
Osser, Harry; And Others – 1968
The purpose of this series of four studies was to precisely describe the code and dialect features of the speech of both lower class Negro children and middle class white children. In the first study, 16 white middle class (WMC) children were compared to 16 Negro lower class (NLC) children on both an imitation and a comprehension task. The WMC…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Language, Dialects, Language Acquisition
Fathman, Ann – 1979
The results from three studies using data provided by the SLOPE Test and oral interviews are reported. The studies include: (1) a comparison of rank orders obtained over a period of time; (2) a comparison of rank orders obtained in instrument-elicited and spontaneous speech; and (3) a comparison of results obtained using two methods of analysis,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition