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Ruthe Foushee; Dan Byrne; Marisa Casillas; Susan Goldin-Meadow – Grantee Submission, 2022
Linguistic alignment--the contingent reuse of our interlocutors' language at all levels of linguistic structure--pervades human dialogue. Here, we design unique measures to capture the degree of linguistic alignment between interlocutors' linguistic representations at three levels of structure: lexical, syntactic, and semantic. We track these…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Vocabulary Skills, Models
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Suzuki, Takaaki; Kobayashi, Tessei – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Syntactic bootstrapping facilitates children's initial learning of verb meanings based on syntactic information. A challenging case is the argument-drop languages, where the number of argument NPs is not a reliable cue for distinguishing between transitive and intransitive verbs. Despite this fact, the availability of syntactic bootstrapping in…
Descriptors: Syntax, Cues, Grammar, Verbs
Aulls, Mark W. – 1970
Because of a lack of systematic structuring, much of the research pertaining to the variables influencing the reader's use of context as an aid to determining the meaning of textual units is limited in its applicability. Some of the major variables that have been found to influence the reader's use of context are constraints of textual segment,…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grammar, Language Skills, Linguistic Theory
Ingram, David – 1970
The major purpose of this paper is to initiate discussion on the validity of systematic phonemics in the area of language acquisition. This is not an attempt to write a phonology, but rather an outline of some theoretical and formal devices that may be used for gaining insight into the phonological system of the child. An evaluation procedure…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Generative Phonology, Intellectual Development
Guenther, Audrey A.; Mills, Patrick R. – 1976
The inductivist model of language acquisition was tested by comparing the linguistic development of impulsive kindergarten children with that of reflective children, who, in general, make fewer errors on inductive reasoning tasks. The 81 children sampled were tested with the Matching Familiar Figures Test and with measures of syntactic and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Style, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Krashen, Stephen D., Ed.; And Others – 1982
Studies of age differences in second language learning ability are collected along with commentary on the results. The 12 papers describe long and short term studies of children and adults that focus on the optimal age for second language acquisition, the effect of different teaching methods and environments on age differences, and theories that…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Language Proficiency
Pierce, Joe E.; Hanna, Ingrid Vanwaardenburg – 1978
This is a report on an on-going research project sponsored jointly by the Speech and Hearing Clinic of the University of Oregon Medical School and Portland State University. The book contains a brief historical review of the study of speech in normal children in recent years. Then follows a structural description of the language used by each of 25…
Descriptors: Child Language, Descriptive Linguistics, Educational Theories, Language Acquisition
Scholes, Robert J.; And Others – 1976
Human beings who have been forced to acquire language through non-auditory modalities characteristically display an impoverished syntactic system. I.M. Schlessinger (1970) has shown, for example, that users of sign language have difficulty in communicating syntactic relations such as "subject of main verb,""object of the verb," and "indirect…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Form Classes (Languages), Hearing Impairments, Language Patterns
Doyle, Anna Beth; And Others – 1977
The present paper discusses some linguistic correlates of early bilingualism, correlates which have implications for first cognitions about language. The paper also touches on the question of what linguistic environments are optimal for the very young child to acquire two languages fluently, testing the importance of a one-speaker/one-language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
van Oirsouw, Robert R. – 1978
The source of syntactic ambiguity and facts concerning the resolution of such ambiguity are discussed in this paper. The attitude of qenerative linguists towards ambiguity is examined, and a working distinction is drawn between vaqueness and ambiguity. The consequences of this distinction are then examined for syntactic ambiguity and an ordering…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Grammar
Carpenter, Patricia A.; Just, Marcel Adam – 1975
This research explored the fundamental processes involved in comprehending linguistic material: the duration of the process, the sequence of processes, and the sources of errors. One project examined the comprehension of affirmative and negative sentences that are read and verified with respect to a picture. A model developed to account for the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Skills, Language Tests
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Verhoeven, Ludo T. – Language Learning, 1994
This study examined linguistic interdependence in 98 bilingual Turkish/Dutch children of Turkish background living in the Netherlands since birth, to determine whether language and literacy skills can be transferred from 1 language. The results indicated that, although the transference of lexicon and syntax skills was limited, pragmatic,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dutch, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Winograd, Terry – 1971
This paper describes a system for the computer understanding of English. The system answers questions, executes commands, and accepts information in normal English dialogue. It uses semantic information and context to understand discourse and to disambiguate sentences. It combines a complete syntactic analysis of each sentence with a heuristic…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Computers, Deep Structure
Servin, Belen – 1976
The amount of time that should be spent on explicit teaching of language patterns and structure is an issue among second language teachers. Those who believe that language learning is a developmental process feel that there is no sense in teaching grammar and syntax explicitly since the learner can be expected to acquire these skills as he…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Heddesheimer, C. – 1974
This study of the linguistic acts of assenting and confirming is inspired by an attempt to create instructional materials for the learning of spoken English as a second language, with communicative competence as a goal. Observations are based on several hours of informal conversation between native speakers of English, mostly students and…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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