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Drake, Suzanne V. – Illinois School Research, 1975
This study was designed to assess the intercorrelations of selected variables of reading readiness to determine which measures were related. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Research, Language Ability, Language Acquisition
Download full textPolitzer, Robert L.; Ramirez, Arnulfo G. – 1973
The study sought to (1) furnish data to be used in further language-error analyses and studies of causes of errors in language acquisition, (2) provide specific data for a basis in constructing pedagogical materials and proficiency tests to be used in teaching English to Mexican American children, and (3) determine whether bilingual or monolingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Mexican Americans
Peer reviewedHass, Wilbur A.; Wepman, Joseph M. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1973
Uncertainty scores of the type proposed in this study, if suitably refined, may measure the developmental progression from stereotyped reliance on individual syntactic forms to flexible utilization of productive rules. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Language Acquisition, Measurement Techniques
Schaeffer, Jeannette – 1995
This paper reports the results of an experiment with 21 Italian children (age 2;8-5;11) and 29 U.S. children (age 2;7-5;9) who were tested on their knowledge of verb raising to C in main WH-questions, an obligatory movement process in adult Italian and English. Along the lines of recent movement and feature checking theories, it is proposed that,…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Graphs, Italian
PDF pending restorationSuppes, P.; And Others – 1974
This is the second report concerned with the analysis of a young child's spoken French. It focuses on the study of the entire corpus of 33 hour sessions occurring approximately once a week and ranging from the time the subject was 25 months old to 38 months old. Chapter 1 is devoted to introductory remarks. Chapter 2 contains a dictionary of the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Psychology, French, Generative Grammar
Dulay, Heidi C.; Burt, Marina K. – 1972
The types of syntactic errors made by children learning a second language provide insight into the way in which children acquire the second language. The contrastive analysis hypothesis states that while the child is learning a second language, he will tend to use his native language structures in his second language speech; where there are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Contrastive Linguistics, Educational Strategies
Parker, Gary J. – 1971
It is possible to observe phonological innovations in Quechua B in purely linguistic terms, abandoning the use of dialects and subdialects. Isolect and lect are used instead. A particular speech form, with respect to a particular innovation, is an isolect in one of three possible ways: it lacks the innovation; it has the innovation as a variable…
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Environmental Influences
