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Perfetti, Charles A.; And Others – 1971
Norms of free association to common ambiguous English words are reported. Responses were categorized on the basis of sense relevance. On this basis, the sense dominance of the words was quantified, and the degree of ambiguity associated with each word estimated by the information measure U. This publication will be of interest primarily to…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Associative Learning, Data Collection, Language Research
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Clark, Ruth – Journal of Child Language, 1976
This paper describes the apparatus and methods of recording used in a study of language acquisition. Recording equipment, study time and length and procedures are discussed. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Data Collection, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Hyltenstam, Kenneth – 1983
Different language sample elicitation techniques may be appropriate for different linguistic phenomena and for learners at different phases of acquisition. These techniques include elicited production, manipulation of given linguistic material (sentence combining, sentence completion), intuition and grammaticality judgment tests, introspection,…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Data Collection, Developmental Stages
Campbell, Cherry; And Others – 1977
Foreigner talk (FT) is the term used to characterize possible adjustments in the speech of a native speaker (NS) when he or she is in conversation with a non-native speaker (NNS). The paper examines conversations between 6 native speakers and 3 non-native speakers and characterizes the speech of the native-speakers involved. The data were…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Language Patterns