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Peer reviewedMayer, Judith Winzemer; And Others – Cognition, 1978
The basic-operations hypothesis predicts that for any transformation which is composed of more than one basic operation, there exists a class of errors in children's speech correctly analyzed as failure to apply one (or more) of the operations specified in the adult formulation of the rule. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition
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
Lovell, K.; and others – J Spec Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Language Acquisition, Language Classification, Mental Retardation
Download full textKolln, Martha; Hancock, Craig – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
This article assumes the value of a scientifically grounded, rhetorically focused, professionally supported, and publicly embraced grammar within the public schools and examines the past century of practices within the United States from that perspective. It describes a brief renaissance in the 50's and early 60's, inspired largely by the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Grammar, Structural Grammar, Generative Grammar
Davila, Sonia I. – 1983
This paper provides an overview of recent developments in the science of linguistics, and considers their relevance to the teaching of Spanish in Puerto Rico. First, three significant trends are explained and summarized: (1) structuralism, which emphasizes phonetics, pattern, and distribution, and rejects meaning as a tool of analysis; (2)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Native Language Instruction
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
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
DeVito, Joseph; Civikly, Jean M. – 1971
The syntactic properties of the child's language are studied. Within the framework of transformational grammar, the rules of syntax can be divided into three types: base- or phrase-structure rules, transformational rules, and morphological rules. Each of these rules is discussed. It is stated that the one process that appears to characterize each…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Morphology (Languages), Phrase Structure
