NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Traugott, Elizabeth – Langages, 1973
Based on a series of lectures given at the Summer Language Program, University of California at Santa Cruz, August 1972; translated from the English; special issue on "Changing Linguistics." (DD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Universals
Lecointre, Simone; Le Galliot, Jean – Langages, 1973
Special issue on "Changing Linguistics." (DD)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Lambelin, Genevieve; Brossard, Michel – Langages, 1980
Challenges the hypothesis that different linguistic codes are specifically related to different social groups, observing that children's language usage shows qualitative differences determined by the situations they face rather than by their sociocultural background. Supports this observation with an analysis of children's attempts to explain the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Childrens Games, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Lane, Harlan – Langages, 1979
Traces the history of the advances and setbacks experienced by proponents of sign language in France and in the United States from the 18th century to the present. (AM)
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Policy, English, French
Charpin, Francois – Langages, 1978
Discusses the problem of the lack of native speakers to judge grammatical acceptability in analyzing a dead language such as Latin, and proposes an analysis on the level of linguistic performance. (AM)
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Usage
Perrot, Jean – Langages, 1978
Proposes description of Latin syntactic structures through an analysis of their communicative functions. (AM)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Latin, Pragmatics