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Victor of Aveyron: A Reappraisal in Light of More Recent Cases of Feral Speech.
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Lebrun, Yvan – Language Sciences, 1980
The language development of children who have experienced malnutrition and varying degrees of speech and sensory deprivation is examined. In language learning, such children attend only when directly addressed, cannot control pitch and intonation and lack an understanding of the relational linguistic material and the sociolinguistic rules of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Pragmatic Language Testing
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Oller, John W., Jr. – Language Sciences, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, November 1972. (DD)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deep Structure, Generative Grammar
Grammars as Objects of Knowledge: The Availability of Dispositionalism.
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Tsohatzidis, Savas L. – Language Sciences, 2002
Presents a preliminary case for the dispositionalist interpretation of grammatical knowledge by accomplishing two complementary tasks: first rejecting a prominent argument against the dispositionalist interpretation; second, advancing an original argument against the anti-dispositionalist interpretation. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Grammar, Language Proficiency, Linguistic Theory