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Baggio, Giosuè – Cognitive Science, 2021
Compositionality has been a central concept in linguistics and philosophy for decades, and it is increasingly prominent in many other areas of cognitive science. Its status, however, remains contentious. Here, I reassess the nature and scope of the principle of compositionality (Partee, 1995) from the perspective of psycholinguistics and cognitive…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Neurosciences, Phrase Structure
Spencer Philip Caplan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation investigates the wide-ranging implications of a simple fact: language unfolds over time. Whether as cognitive symbols in our minds, or as their physical realization in the world, if linguistic computations are not made over transient and shifting information as it occurs, they cannot be made at all. This dissertation explores the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Input, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics
Mathew, Bincy; Raja, B. William Dharma – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2015
Language is of vital importance to human beings. It is a means of communication and it has specific cognitive links. Advanced social cognition is necessary for children to acquire language, and sophisticated mind-reading abilities to assume word meanings and communicate pragmatically. Language can be defined as a bi-directional system that permits…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Social Cognition, Linguistic Competence, Comparative Analysis
Christensen, Ken Ramshoj; Kizach, Johannes; Nyvad, Anne Mette – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2013
In the syntax literature, it is commonly assumed that a constraint on linguistic competence blocks extraction of "wh-"expressions (e.g. "what" or "which book") from embedded questions, referred to as "wh-"islands. Furthermore, it is assumed that there is an argument/adjunct asymmetry in extraction from "wh-"islands. We report results from two…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Indo European Languages, Linguistic Competence, Short Term Memory
Behjat, Fatemeh; Sadighi, Firooz – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2012
One of the intricate properties of second language acquisition is that some types of grammatical feature appear to be acquired easily and in a native-like way, while others remain persistently difficult. There is much evidence related to the issue in the current empirical studies, and the issue raises an important explanatory problem for a theory…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Palermo, David S.; Parrish, Michael – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Research supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Public Health Service Research Center, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (DS)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Language Research, Learning Theories

Tomasello, Michael – Cognition, 2000
Details findings indicating that most early linguistic competence is item based. Maintains that language development proceeds without evidence of system-wide syntactic categories, schemas, or parameters. Suggests that findings are not easily explained by the development of children's skills of linguistic performance, pragmatics, or other external…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence, Models
Gowie, Cheryl Janice – 1973
This study examined the extent of children's awareness of the semantic subtleties of the word "promise" and their comprehension of sentences following an atypical syntactic pattern using "promise" as the main verb. Subjects included children within three months of being six-and-one-half, eight-and-one-half, nine-and-one-half, and ten-and-one-half…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Expectation, Language Research

Hart, Betty – Journal of Child Language, 1975
A study was conducted in which a series of stories was used to teach six four- to five-year-olds to identify objects as "nouns," attributes of objects as "adjectives," and actions as "verbs." All the children appeared to have well-formed semantic fields for the three form classes. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence
Cowan, J.L. – 1968
The author endeavors to penetrate the "mists o f mentalistic myth" which enshroud the "very real, solid, and substantial results of generative or transformational linguistics." In attempting to clarify and clear up misunderstandings about theories of grammar as put forth by Chomsky (whose practice, the author feels, is "superior to his description…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Theory

Corrigan, Roberta – Child Development, 1975
Nine tasks were designed to test the developmental sequence of three types of "because" (affective, physical, concrete logical) in 100 children aged 3 to 7 years. The tasks tested whether comprehension of "because" preceded its usage and at what point children understood that sentences with reversed clauses were incorrect.…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Developmental Tasks, Intellectual Development, Linguistic Competence

Scinto, Leonard F., Jr. – Linguistics, 1977
An analysis of sentence grammar is made to show that the ability to produce coherent texts emerges slowly and late in linguistic and cognitive development. (HP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence

Duchan, Judith; Lund, Nancy J. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
This study is an attempt to investigate the efficacy of using existing semantic relations categories for understanding how children comprehend the verb "with" + noun construction. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research

Hofmann, Dietrich – Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Induction, Language Patterns
Gauger, Hans-Martin – Meta, 1973
Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance, Phonemes