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The Interpretation of Disjunction in Universal Grammar
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Crain, Stephen – Language and Speech, 2008
Child and adult speakers of English have different ideas of what "or" means in ordinary statements of the form "A or B". Even more far-reaching differences between children and adults are found in other languages. This tells us that young children do not learn what "or" means by watching how adults use "or". An alternative is to suppose that…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Research, Semantics, Child Language
A Clinical Taxonomy for the Categorization of Language Functions Used by School-Age Children in a Structured Setting.
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Klecan-Aker, Joan S.; And Others – Language and Speech, 1983
Describes a study that examines the pragmatic language functions used by school-age children during a structured dialog consisting of a question-answer paradigm. Develops a 10-category taxonomy to classify subjects' responses and finds the taxonomy to be effective in two ways: (1) the number of categories is sufficient, and (2) the interscorer…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Linguistic Intuitions of Twelve-Year-Olds
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Moore, Timothy E. – Language and Speech, 1975
Data obtained from seventh graders does not support Chomsky's hierarchy of language rules, whereby degrees of sentence grammaticality can be assigned to ungrammatical sentences. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 7, Grammar, Language Research
On the Acquisition of Present Perfect "Have" in Normal Children
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Nussbaum, N. Jo; Naremore, Rita C. – Language and Speech, 1975
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Usage
The Use of Threats in Children's Discourse.
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Benoit, Pamela J. – Language and Speech, 1983
Investigates the nature of threats and their responses as collaborative units in children's discourse. Research indicates that girls prefer withhold-object or action and harm-threats while boys focus exclusively on harm-threats. Younger children produce more threats than older children, and threats occur more frequently in child-directed settings…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Language Research
Multiple Determinants of a Stigmatized Speech Style: Women's Language, Powerless Language, or Everyone's Language?
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Rubin, Donald L.; Nelson, Marie Wilson – Language and Speech, 1983
Examines the effects of speaker sex, socioeconomic status, ability, communication apprehension, ridigity, and question type on the incidence of 16 style markers and on verbosity in simulated job interviews. (EKN)
Descriptors: Females, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns, Language Research
On the Child's Acquisition of Semantic Structure Underlying the Word Field of Prepositions
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Grimm, Hannelore – Language and Speech, 1975
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition
Syntactic Indices of Language Use of Mentally Retarded and Normal Children
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Lozar, Barbara; And Others – Language and Speech, 1973
The results of study examining several indices of language use of normal and retarded children show the greatest difference between groups in sentence complexity and diversity. (TO)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Language Research, Language Usage, Mental Retardation
Lexical Choice and Social Class
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Osser, Harry; Endler, Norman S. – Language and Speech, 1970
Descriptors: Dialects, Females, Identification (Psychology), Interaction
Talkativeness and Children's Linguistic Abilities.
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Landon, Sarah J.; Sommers, Ronald K. – Language and Speech, 1979
When 20 highly talkative and 20 much less talkative preschool children were measured for articulation, grammar, receptive syntax, and sentence repetition, the performances of the highly talkative children were significantly superior on all measures. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Communication Research, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
Dialectal Differences between Middle-Class Black and White Children Who Do and Do Not Associate with Lower-Class Black Children
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Terrell, Francis – Language and Speech, 1975
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Dialect Studies, English
The Role of Prior Message Context in Evaluative Judgments of High- and Low-Diversity Messages.
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And Others; Bradac, James J. – Language and Speech, 1977
Reports on two studies exploring the contrast effects in judgments of messages exhibiting high or low lexical and syntactic diversity. Suggests that listeners are sensitive to variations in lexical diversity but not syntactic diversity. (RL)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Language Research