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Pope, Mike – Research in the Teaching of English, 1974
Type of discourse and syntax are related; speech researchers will have to specify type of discourse for their results to be comparable with other studies. (JH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Grade 4, Language Patterns
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Davis, Chris; Castles, Anne; Iakovidis, Euthemia – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
A study investigated whether the phonological properties of visually represented words routinely influenced the process of lexical access. Subjects were 40 college students and 40 fourth graders. Results provide little support for the claim that the phonological attributes of words are used standardly to achieve lexical access. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students
McClure, Erica; And Others – 1993
A study compared the types of information included in English narratives written by monolingual American students, English narratives by bilingual Mexican students, and Spanish narratives by monolingual Mexican students, and possible differences by grade level. Subjects were in six groups: monolingual (English-speaking) American; bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – 1993
The selection of papers from the 6th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning (Urbana, Illinois, April 1992) include: "Discourse Markers Across Language" (Bruce Fraser); "Conjunction and Causality: Pragmatics and the Lexicon" (Yael Ziv); "Situated Discourse: The Sociocultural Context of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context