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Peer reviewedHudson, R. A. – Journal of Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Intonation, Language Classification
Peer reviewedHetzron, Robert – Journal of Linguistics, 1972
Descriptors: Grammar, Intonation, Language Research, Phonetics
Some General Characteristics of Interrogative Systems. Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 1.
Download full textUltan, Russell – 1969
This paper discusses interrogative structures, based on the results and conclusions derived from comparing the interrogative systems of 79 randomly selected languages. The paper begins by listing a number of generalizations about interrogative structures based on disparate observations in the field. These generalizations constitute the basis for…
Descriptors: Intonation, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Universals
Armagost, James L. – 1972
This paper seeks to discover the rules active in the formation of tags (intonation tags, declarative tags, and tag questions) in English. The author discusses former analyses of these constructions and presents his own thoughts with many examples, concluding that English has at least two tag formation rules: one that accounts (perhaps…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
Jackendoff, Ray S. – 1972
The author finds Katz and Postal's 1964 generative semantic theories concerning the organization of grammar incorrect and proposes an interpretive approach to semantics in which syntactic structures are given interpretations by an autonomous semantic component. The research reported leads the author to describe a generative grammar consisting of…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Grammar
Bell, Alan; And Others – 1972
This document contains three reports in prepublication form on research conducted by linguists at the University of Colorado. The first paper presents an argument against the theories concerning the concept of the distributional syllable. Such theories are based on the assumptions that the syllable can and should be defined formally, without…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Intonation
Cooper, William E., Ed.; Walker, Edward C. T., Ed. – 1979
The chapters in this volume represent a type of current psycholinguistic research that focuses both on the nature of human information processing and the coding of linguistic structure. The chapters and authors are as follows: (1) "The Wherefores and Therefores of the Competence-Performance Distinction," by V. Valian; (2) "Levels of Processing and…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Intonation, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Elliott, Dale E.; And Others – 1969
This volume of working papers includes seven papers discussing current theory and research in linguistics, phonetics, semantics, and syntax. The following titles are in the collection: "'Do' from 'Occur',""The Syntax of the Verb 'Happen',""Subjects and Agents,""Modal Auxiliaries in Infinitive Clauses in English,""Some Problems in the Description…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, English
