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Pienemann, Manfred; Johnston, Malcolm – Second Language Research, 1996
Replies to Mellow's (1996) criticism of the authors' second language acquisition model. The article argues that this model is based on the psychological concept of exchange of linguistic information and that Mellow's evaluation of various types of transformational analysis is irrelevant. The article also addresses several points of detail in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Models
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Cofer, Thomas M. – Linguistics, 1975
A data-based study done in Philadelphia examined the constraints on relative pronoun deletion and looked for a possible correlation to social stratification or stylistic variation. Restrictive relative clauses only are examined. Constraints appear to be due to performance factors related to sentence processing. (SCC)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Styles, Language Usage, Language Variation
Davison, Alice – 1980
One factor that contributes to the difficulty that a reader may encounter when reading a text is the syntactic complexity of the constructions used in the text. Examples of altered text constructions include the transformations of subjects of subordinate clauses, making them either the subjects or the objects of main clauses. When the conditions…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Language Styles
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Kronenfeld, David B. – Language Sciences, 1979
Examines the innate faculties that underlie linguistic competence, especially syntactic competence, and proposes a theory of these faculties which accounts for the complexities of language and the evolution of human language. (AM)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Ability
Sternglass, Marilyn S. – 1979
Combining concepts of cognitive theory with those of rhetoric and linguistics can help writing teachers understand the kinds of activities that will enable basic writers to produce syntactic constructions appropriate for the content they have generated. A review of research studies of sentence combining, syntactic constructions, grammatical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Kernel Sentences, Language Processing, Memory
Smith, R. L.; And Others – 1974
A new language-processing system, CONSTRUCT, is described and defined as a question-answering system for elementary mathematical language using natural language input. The primary goal is said to be an attempt to reach a better understanding of the relationship between syntactic and semantic components of natural language. The "meaning…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Context Free Grammar, Input Output
Griffiths, Patrick – 1986
A study explored the use of a text-copying task for the determination of syntactic constituent structure. It was predicted that the task would be a naturalistic, reasonably direct, and sensitive psycholinguistic research method. In two experiments, 70 subjects wrote out copies of typed passages. The points where they paused and looked back to the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Foreign Countries
Blaubergs, Maija S. – 1977
That semantics interacts with syntax has been shown in psycholinguistic investigations of the processing of language by adults and of the acquisition of language by children. The few programs for language assessment and therapy that have attempted to incorporate semantic considerations have included some misunderstandings of the psycholinguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Diagnostic Tests, Grammar