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Peer reviewedEdwards, V. K. – Language and Speech, 1978
Establishes a significant correlation between the extent of Creole language interference and performance on a British reading comprehension test. Suggests that Creole affects the efficiency of understanding British English. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialects, Foreign Countries, Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedKindell, Gloria – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1983
Discusses four general areas of linguistics studies that are particularly relevant to literacy issues: (1) discourse analysis, including text analysis, spoken and written language, and home and school discourse; (2) relationships between speech and writing, the distance between dialects and written norms, and developmental writing; (3)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Dialects, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing
Svensson, Lennart – 1978
This paper considers the problem of differentiating thought and language in a way that makes it possible to relate them to each other. The analysis covers approaches of sociolinguistic research, different models of language and cognitive functioning within psychology and linguistics, the cybernetic approach, and psycholinguistic analyses. A common…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Download full textHarlow, S. J., Ed.; Warner, A. R., Ed. – 1989
Papers on a variety of linguistic topics include six papers from a Festschrift and nine others, as follows: "Attitudes Towards English as a Possible Lingua Franca in Switzerland" (Urs Durmuller); "Functional Stability and Structural Levelling of Dialects: The Case of Maastricht" (Anton M. Hagen, Henk Munstermann); "On the…
Descriptors: Basque, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects
Milroy, Lesley, Ed.; Muysken, Pieter, Ed. – 1995
Fifteen articles review code-switching in the four major areas: policy implications in specific institutional and community settings; perspectives of social theory of code-switching as a form of speech behavior in particular social contexts; the grammatical analysis of code-switching, including factors that constrain switching even within a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication, Code Switching (Language)
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 34 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the influence of rhyming verses on young children's ability to repeat rhythmic phrases; (2) schools of thought in linguistics; (3) the great vowel shift in the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Language, Dialects, Doctoral Dissertations
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: (1) developmental differences in preschoolers' comprehension of WH-questions; (2) discourse analysis and early literacy in minority education; (3) effects of text structure on…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
