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Labov, William; Labov, Teresa – Langue Francaise, 1977
A report on a study in progress of the acquisition of a syntax rule: inversion in questions beginning with "Wh..". Its purpose is to show how certain modifications of linguistic theory and practice can contribute to this study and to psychology of language in general. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Language Acquisition, Language Research

Tai, James H-Y – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 24, 1972; research supported by a Summer Research Grant, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill. (DD)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
SLOBIN, DAN I. – 1965
ONE APPROACH TO CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IS THAT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL, GENERATIVE GRAMMAR WHICH EMPHASIZES MAN'S ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND AND PRODUCE AN UNLIMITED VARIETY OF SENTENCES THROUGH CONTROL OF A LIMITED NUMBER OF LANGUAGE RULES. THUS, A CHILD LEARNS TO SPEAK BY DEVELOPING HIS OWN THEORIES OF THE STRUCTURE OF HIS LANGUAGE. STUDIES OF…
Descriptors: Child Development, English, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory

Prideaux, Gary D. – Glossa, 1979
Proposes an alternative to transformational grammars, based on the notion that a grammatical system should be open to psycholinguistic interpretation, and disallowing grammatical transformations, dealing instead with the information content of sentence surface structure. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Danks, Joseph H.; Lewis, Charles – 1970
The comprehension of deviant sentences is dependent on several linguistic variables. Grammaticalness (G), meaningfulness (M), and familiarity (F) are three variables which are potentially such. In order to study the effect of violating these variables upon Ss' responses to deviant sentences, 85 deviant and 15 correct sentences were assigned to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, English, Factor Analysis
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
Robertson, Jean E. – 1970
This paper focuses on four studies of pupils' reading comprehension completed at the University of Alberta. A number of investigators have described the acquisition and use of connectives by pupils and have indicated the importance of connectives in the development of abstract logical thinking. (Teachers often consider these words too simple to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, English, Interdisciplinary Approach
Grosu, Alexander – 1972
This dissertation seeks to provide an improved syntactic analysis of the phenomena known as "island constraints" and to offer a natural explanation for these and other phenomena in behavioral terms. The author approaches the problem using the notions of "nucleus" and "satellite," and shows that these concepts are a necessary part of a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Descriptive Linguistics, Doctoral Dissertations, English

Elerick, Charles – 1977
The internalized grammar of the bilingual is different from that of a monolingual. The bilingual has, in addition to the entries that are proper to each of the two languages he speaks, certain union entries. These are extensive in the case of the Spanish/English bilingual since there are many items in the two languages that manifest systematic…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Generative Phonology
Ebbs, John D. – 1968
After briefly reviewing the present state of linguistic research, this project concluded that both recent developments in research and increasing educational demands upon all children indicate a need for increased attention to the language education of elementary teachers, especially a broader orientation in language training. Following a…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects, Elementary School Teachers, English
Lugton, Robert C., Ed. – 1970
This collection contains articles on teaching English to foreign students which range in subject matter from transformational-generative grammar to programed learning and which reflect a variety of viewpoints. The following articles are included: Leon A. Jakobovits, "Prolegomena to a Theory of Communicative Competence"; Renzo Titone, "A…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Communication (Thought Transfer), Contrastive Linguistics, English

Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana, Ed.; And Others – 1971
The first volume of this series is divided into reports, studies, and preliminary results of work in progress. All were presented at a meeting on contrastive linguistics held in Romania. The project is intended to reveal the specificity of the structures and systems of Romanian and English with a view to comparing them and, on that basis,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English
Bar-Adon, Aaron, Ed.; Leopold, Werner F., Ed. – 1971
The present volume is designed to help the student of child language, especially the beginning student, discover the high points of American and international research, such as French, German, Hebrew, Polish, and Russian. The selections in this reader are intended as an introduction to various fields of child language and to different theories and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Chinese, English
Allen, Harold B., Comp. – 1966
This bibliography is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who desire a convenient guide to linguistic scholarship in English, education, linguistics, and related areas. The listing is selective, but the compiler has tried to provide ample coverage of the major fields and topics, with emphasis on works published in the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bilingualism, Child Language, Dialects