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Peer reviewedFine, J.; Bartolucci, G. – Discourse Processes, 1981
Reviews the methodological issues raised by previous research into the language used by thought-disordered and nondisordered schizophrenics. (FL)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Language Handicaps, Language Research, Language Skills
Direct linkMargaret Lahey; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1992
Analyzed 104 language samples obtained from 42 different normal language learning children at 15, 19, and 35 months of age for the proportional use of 11 grammatical morphemes. Wide variability was found among the samples in the proportional use of each morpheme. (49 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Individual Differences, Language Handicaps
Edwards, Viv; Sutcliffe, Dave – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1977
Argues that the influence of dialect on the language of West Indian children may be much stronger than has been assumed. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Community Relations, Comprehension
Download full textSteffensen, Margaret S. – 1978
A number of claims made by Bereiter and Engelmann, two of the strongest proponents of the verbal-deprivation hypothesis, are examined in light of data gathered during a longitudinal study of two children acquiring Black English Vernacular. The "giant-word syndrome" and its proposed concomitants of absence of developmental stages, deviant…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Child Language, Compensatory Education
Peer reviewedChiat, Shulamuth – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Investigates the inconsistencies of personal pronoun production both in production and between production and comprehension in a pronoun-reversing child. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Acquisition
Fox, Joseph P.; And Others – 1974
Three objectives of research reported here were to describe the neural organization underlying language usage and language loss, to study activities occurring in both cerebral hemispheres, and to study neural changes related to changes in syntactic complexity of stimuli. A dichoptic procedure was chosen. A subject faced a viewing screen on which…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Peer reviewedBlank, Marion; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1979
This paper presents the case of a child who at age 3;3 showed a marked schism between two branches of language functioning; he had control of language as a system for expressing syntactic-semantic relations but not as a system of interpersonal communication. (CFM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Problems, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Hess, Karen M.; Maxwell, John C. – 1969
As part of the development of a self-teaching program for instructing teachers of English and elementary language arts about dialects, a comprehensive search of the literature on dialects and dialect learning, from 1960 to the present, was made. This paper sets forth some of the major ideas, points of view, and recommendations revealed by the…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, English Instruction, Language Handicaps
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 49 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the relation of cognitive ability and receptive language ability in primary school children; (2) verbal cognition; (3) contextual methods of teaching…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles deal with the following topics: sex appropriate and sex inappropriate language; lexical retrieval and perceptual errors; naming deficits in anomia and aphasia; developmental discourse; pragmatic information and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Black Youth, Child Language
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 27 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: facilitation of language development in disadvantaged preschool children; auditory-visual discrimination skills, language performance, and development of manual…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Youth, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) psycholinguistic abilities in American Sioux Indian children; (2) cohesion in verbals of scientific and technical English; (3) teacher-child discourse…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Language, Cohesion (Written Composition)
