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Rudolph, William B. – 1971
Literature in the area of measurement of comprehensibility is reviewed as it relates to the utilization of mathematical models for English. A number of mathematical language models are presented and explained, and evidence of their usefulness is given where available. In nonmathematical research, studies concerned with measurement of letter…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Information Theory, Language Research, Linguistics
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Afendras, Evangelos A. – 1969
Language contact and the resulting interference has long been diagnosed as one of the primary forces behind language change. In cases of multilingual contact within geographically restricted areas, converging changes of the languages in contact have been uncovered and described. The geographic areas characterized by such linguistic situations came…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Ethnology
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Suppes, P.; And Others – 1974
This is the second report concerned with the analysis of a young child's spoken French. It focuses on the study of the entire corpus of 33 hour sessions occurring approximately once a week and ranging from the time the subject was 25 months old to 38 months old. Chapter 1 is devoted to introductory remarks. Chapter 2 contains a dictionary of the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Psychology, French, Generative Grammar