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Cloe Zeidan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The present dissertation reports two experiments that examine implicit and explicit language learning methods and their impacts on early vocabulary, grammar, and phonological acquisition, in addition to working memory, proactive/reactive control, and fluid intelligence, as well as learner motivation. Experiment 1 investigated adult L2 acquisition…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Second Language Learning, Cognitive Ability, Teaching Methods
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White, Michelle Jennifer; Southwood, Frenette; Huddlestone, Kate – First Language, 2023
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that originated in South Africa as a descendent of Dutch. It displays discontinuous sentential negation (SN), where negation is expressed by two phonologically identical negative particles that appear in two different positions in the sentence. The negation system is argued to be an innovation that came about…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Language Acquisition, Indo European Languages, Standard Spoken Usage
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Sumanth, P.; Ravi, Sunil Kumar; Abhishek, B. P. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Language is a major tool for an individual to communicate. The phonological & morpho-syntactic components are involved in functions of language processing & executions. Case marker is one of the morpho-syntatic feature, which describes the abstract meaning of the grammatical components of nouns & verbs and in formation of meaningful…
Descriptors: Dravidian Languages, Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing
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Conwell, Erin – Journal of Child Language, 2017
One strategy that children might use to sort words into grammatical categories such as noun and verb is distributional bootstrapping, in which local co-occurrence information is used to distinguish between categories. Words that can be used in more than one grammatical category could be problematic for this approach. Using naturalistic corpus…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Suprasegmentals, Grammar
Walker, Neil Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Southern Pomo is a moribund indigenous language, one of seven closely related Pomoan languages once spoken in Northern California in the vicinity of the Russian River drainage, Clear Lake, and the adjacent Pacific coast. This work is the first full-length grammar of the language. It is divided into three parts. Part I introduces the sociocultural…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Grammar, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
Walker, Aaron Hyde – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation is concerned with the specific relationship between copular sentences and existential sentences, and what about that relationship is responsible for the well-known restrictions on definiteness and predicates that are observed in the existential cases. Instead of starting with the well-known paradigms which illustrate restrictions…
Descriptors: Syntax, Phonology, Morphemes, Grammar
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Hill, Susan – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
This article explores aspects of early language and literacy that may predict later literacy development. It explores a range of assessment procedures used for oral language, vocabulary, sentence structure and phonology and early reading and writing. The article then describes a small-scale study which highlights the disconnections between the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Early Reading, Phonology, Sentence Structure
Elgin, Suzette Haden – 1975
This booklet is intended to enable the beginner in the field of transformational grammar to read and gain information about much of the contemporary scholarly literature on grammar (of foreign languages as well as of English). Sections in the book discuss phrase structure grammar; transformational rules--movement rules, insertion rules,…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Generative Phonology, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
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Nuessel, Frank H., Jr. – 1976
This is the second supplement to "A Bibliography of Generative-Based Grammatical Analyses of Spanish." It includes all available materials that have appeared since February of 1975. This bibliography contains two general divisions: phonology and syntax/semantics. Information regarding the location of reviews and abstracts is included in most of…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Form Classes (Languages), Generative Grammar, Grammar
Platero, Paul R., Ed. – 1974
The purpose of this journal is to provide useful exchange of information among Navajo teachers. The articles in this issue deal with Navajo linguistics. Kenneth Hale and Paul Platero present an analysis of the relative clause in Navajo. Part 1 analyzes relativization forms and formulates structural descriptions for relativization rules, with…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
Casagrande, Jean, Ed.; Saciuk, Bohdan, Ed. – 1972
This book represents, in part, the written record of the "Linguistic Symposium of Romance Languages: Application of Generative Grammar to Their Description and Teaching," held at the University of Florida, Gainesville, in February 1971. The aim of the Symposium was to bring forth contributions in the description of Romance languages, to draw…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Books, French, Generative Grammar
Lakoff, George – 1965
This dissertation is an attempt to characterize the notion "exception to a rule of grammar" within the context of Chomsky's conception of grammar as given in "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax." This notion depends on a prior notion of "rule government"--in each phrase marker on which a transformational rule may…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Context Free Grammar, English
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Hetzron, Robert – Journal of Linguistics, 1972
Descriptors: Grammar, Intonation, Language Research, Phonetics
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Nuessel, Frank H. – 1975
This supplement to "A Bibliography of Generative-Based Grammatical Analyses of Spanish" includes all available materials that have appeared since November 1973, and pre-1973 entries not contained in the original bibliography, particularly items published outside the U.S. The present bibliography, like the original, contains two general divisions:…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Form Classes (Languages), Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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