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Berent, Gerald P.; Kelly, Ronald R.; Albertini, John A.; Toscano, Rose Marie – American Annals of the Deaf, 2013
Deaf Learners' Acquisition of fundamental lexical properties of high-frequency English verbs related to transitivity and intransitivity was examined, including the subtle distinction between unergative and unaccusative verbs. A 140-item sentence acceptability rating scale was used to assess this lexical knowledge in deaf college students at two…
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Proficiency, Verbs, English

Powers, James E.; Lis, Donna J. – 1977
The influence of children's levels of field-dependence-independence on their performance with the passive transformation was investigated. Eighty 6th graders, classified as field-dependent or field-independent, were presented with sentence-question combinations, each in either the active or passive voice, and numbers of correct responses were…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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

Mayer, 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
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

Elley, W. B.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1976
A summative evaluation of a Program English curriculum which found that the effects of a study of transformational grammar on the language growth of secondary school students was negligible. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, English Curriculum, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Lovell, K.; and others – J Spec Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Language Acquisition, Language Classification, Mental Retardation

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
Bolles, Edmund Blair – Saturday Review (New York 1952), 1972
An analysis of the speech of infants gives a clue to the evolution of language. (DR)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition, Language Universals

Maratsos, Michael; Kuczaj, Stanley A. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
This article reviews and criticizes Fay's particular transformational descriptions as implausible. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Language Acquisition
Horgan, Dianne – 1976
Spontaneous full passives and related constructions from 234 children aged 2;0 to 13;11 and elicited passives from 262 college students were analyzed. Full passives were classified as reversible (The dog was chased by the girl), instrumental non-reversible (The lamp was broken by [or with] the ball), or agentive non-reversible (The lamp was broken…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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
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
Gao, Chun-mei – Online Submission, 2007
In vocabulary testing, whether to adopt context is a heat-debated topic. In the article, an experiment is designed to investigate what is the effect of zero context and sentence context on the vocabulary testing? And how do the different kinds of context in vocabulary affect the subjects' performance? The experimental result demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Sentences, Testing, Vocabulary Skills, Experiments
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