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Ehninger, Douglas – 1976
This paper provides a brief but broad review of studies in semantics. Particular attention is given to I.A. Richards' analyses of utterances, to value statements which express moral or ethical judgments, and to recent efforts to formulate a logic of contextual implication. J.L. Austin's analysis of performative, or illocutionary, utterances and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Theory, Semantics
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Kess, Joseph F. – Language Sciences, 1976
It has usually been psycholinguistics which has accommodated itself to alterations within linguistic formulations, but now there is a growing independence on the part of many psychologists in the study of language. The shift in emphasis is from competence to performance. (POP)
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance
Robinson, Jane J. – 1975
Evidence is offered to support the view that linguistic competence cannot in principle be divorced from linguistic performance in order to abstract universal properties of grammars, that rules of grammar inevitably incorporate perceptual strategies and constraints, and that grammaticality and acceptability are related to predictability. A theory…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, Language Universals, Language Usage
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Sankoff, David; Cedergren, Henrietta J. – Language, 1976
Computer-based multidimensional scaling techniques are used to determine the dimensionality of grammatical variation in three large sets of data: Ross' (1973) Noun Phrase and fake Noun Phrase data; Sankoff's (1974) complementizer "que"-deletion (Montreal French) data; and Cedergren's (1973) syllable-final S-reduction (Panamanian Spanish) data. (DB)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Mayher, John Sawyer – New York University Education Quarterly, 1973
Each speaker-hearer commands a language system that he uses unconsciously as he speaks and writes. Discovery of the rules underlying that system shows the futility of some accepted teaching practices and suggests other approaches. (Author)
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Theory
Campbell, B. G. – 1975
A native speaker of a language possesses both grammatical and rhetorical competence. A grammatical model, in its deep structure, represents an "is a" relationship. It seeks to offer some explanation of a human being as a human being. A rhetorical model represents a "counts as" relationship. It seeks to offer some explanation of…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Ability, Language Usage, Linguistic Competence
Slakta, Denis – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1975
This article outlines a model of the two basic components of a text, namely, the system of formal linguistic rules, and the realization of these rules into concrete discourse, by means of particular transformations. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research
Milkovich, Mark B.; Reagan, Richard R. – 1974
Some of the major studies by the proponents of the Derivational Theory of Complexity are reviewed in this paper, and the results of a study to determine the adequacy of the theory as an account of message processing difficulty are included. The subjects for the study were students selected from five sections of the introductory communication class…
Descriptors: English, Higher Education, Language Research, Language Skills
Drach, Kerry; And Others – 1969
Four papers are included in this document concerning the structure of linguistic input to children. Dan Slobin's paper, "Questions of Language Development in Cross-Cultural Perspective," suggests that children everywhere acquire basic grammatical competence in the first five or six years of life, regardless of social milieu or linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cross Cultural Studies, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Baetens Beardsmore, H.; Lee, E. J. – 1975
An examination of recent linguistic and sociolinguistic studies on bilingualism has resulted in a reappraisal of the notion of interference. The implications of this reappraisal lead to the conclusion that the principles of transformational generative grammar could successfully be applied to the study of bilingualism if the bilingual's mental…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Interference (Language)
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Krashen, Stephen; Scarcella, Robin – Language Learning, 1978
Examines the role of "routines" and grammatical patterns in first and second language acquisition by children and adults, specifically with regard to syntactic structures. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Pierce, Joe E. – 1969
While reviewing the controversial concept of describing language via the phoneme, the author spells out many problems caused by the discrepancies of phonemic theory and actual speech production. Phonological variation in actual speech utterances prompts the analysis of the phonology of language on two levels--the phonemic and the distinctive…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Comprehension, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Classification
Schank, Roger C.; Wilks, Yorick – 1973
There is a need for a new kind of linguistic theory which, while being concerned with both generation and analysis, must include the roles of memory, non-linguistic knowledge, and inference. The role of logic is diminished according to such a theory because inference has no real logical content. Meaning must be studied with respect to the actual…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Deep Structure
Rutherford, William E. – 1973
Most of what has been taught in the language classroom for a long while has been generally a reflection of the particular concept of language popular among linguistics at the time, but recently this trend has begun to break down. Recent texts are starting to be organized according to considerations besides linguistic criteria, for example,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Language Instruction