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Roland, Douglas; Dick, Frederic; Elman, Jeffrey L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
Many recent models of language comprehension have stressed the role of distributional frequencies in determining the relative accessibility or ease of processing associated with a particular lexical item or sentence structure. However, there exist relatively few comprehensive analyses of structural frequencies, and little consideration has been…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, Child Language
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Patel, P. G. – Linguistics, 1977
Discusses the possibility of a neurolinguistic interconnection between the parieto-temporo-occipital junction, semantic aphasis, and cognitive and language development around age seven. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development
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Morehead, Donald; Ingram, David – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1970
Language samples of 15 young normal children actively engaged in learning base syntax were compared with samples of 15 linguistically deviant children of a comparable linguistic level. Mean number of morphemes per utterance was used to determine linguistic level. The two groups were matched according to five linguistic levels previously…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Jakobson, Roman – 1968
This work is an English translation of the author's classic "Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze," first published in 1941. It is considered the most representative and comprehensive of the author's phonological writings, dealing not only with phonological typology but related problems of language acquisition and phonemic regression…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Child Development, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics
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Bates, Elizabeth; Goodman, Judith C. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Notes that in linguistic theory, phenomena previously handled by a separate grammatical component have been moved into the lexicon and that in some theories, the contrast between grammar and the lexicon has vanished. Concludes that the case for a modular distinction between grammar and the lexicon has been overstated and that the evidence to date…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Change Agents, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics
Rosenberg, Sheldon, Ed.; Koplin, James H., Ed. – 1968
The eight articles in this volume reflect the increased tendency in recent years to consider problems of language acquisition and language pathology in the context of basic research and theory. They also reflect the two major approaches to language development: the transformational-linguistic approach which puts its emphasis on an innate…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Handicapped Children
Salus, Peter H. – 1976
This paper is concerned with the Aristotelian notion of "universal" as applied to phonological phenomena. It is claimed that speech production in children and adults, in normal and deviant speakers, and in a variety of languages, can all be described according to the same universal phonological rules which constitute the universal process of…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cerebral Palsy, Child Language, Deafness
de Weck, Genevieve, Ed. – Bulletin suisse de linguistique applique, 1997
Articles on communication and language disorder are presented. All but one are in French; the other is in German. They include: "Specificity of Developmental Dysphasia: Implications for Intervention" (Marc Montfort, Adoracion Juarez Sanchez); "Difficulties with Language Development and Discursive Capacity" (Genevieve de Weck); "Language Production…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Aphasia
Sovilla, J. Buttet, Ed.; de Weck, G., Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 1998
These articles on scaffolding in language and speech pathology/therapy are included in this issue: "Strategies d'etayage avec des enfants disphasiques: sont-elles specifiques?" ("Scaffolding Strategies for Dysphasic Children: Are They Specific?") (Genevieve de Weck); "Comparaison des strategies discursives d'etayage dans un conte et un recit…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Child Language, Communication Disorders, Comparative Analysis