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Terry, J. Michael; Jackson, Sandra C.; Evangelou, Evangelos; Smith, Richard L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
This study tests the extent to which giving credit for African American English (AAE) responses on a General American English sentence imitation test mitigates dialect effects. Forty-eight AAE-speaking second graders completed the Recalling Sentences subtest of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Third Edition (1995). A Bayesian…
Descriptors: Sentences, Black Dialects, Markov Processes, Syntax
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Savage-Rumbaugh, E. Sue; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1993
A two-year-old child and an eight-year-old bonobo exposed to spoken English and lexigrams from infancy were asked to respond to novel sentences. Both subjects comprehended novel requests and simple syntactic devices. The bonobo decoded the syntactic device of word recursion more accurately than the child; the child performed better than the bonobo…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evolution, Expressive Language, Infants
Hanson, Vicki L.; Bellugi, Ursula – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1982
Investigates sentence processing in a visual-gestural language by testing signers' recognition for American Sign Language sentences. Results indicate that signers decompose a complex sign into its lexical and inflectional components during sentence comprehension and remember the meaning expressed by these components rather than remembering the…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Expressive Language, Language Patterns
Abdulsada, Mohammed Nasser – Online Submission, 2004
Wish expression is the way by which wishes are expressed. These wishes are either fulfilled or unfulfilled. There are certain devices that are used in English and Arabic and these devices are used to express wishes. Fulfilled wishes are expressed by most devices of wish expression in both English and Arabic. In turn, unfulfilled wishes are…
Descriptors: English, Semitic Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Usage