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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
Isurin, Ludmila; Ivanova-Sullivan, Tanya – Heritage Language Journal, 2008
The present paper looks at the growing population of Russian heritage speakers from a linguistic and psycholinguistic perspective. The study attempts to clarify further the notion of heritage language by comparing the linguistic performance of heritage speakers with that of monolinguals and second language learners. The amount of exposure to…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Heritage Education, Task Analysis, Russian

Blank, Marion; Frank, Sheldon M. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Intelligence, Kindergarten Children, Linguistic Performance

Lentin, Laurence – Langue Francaise, 1975
Reports on a study to determine the origin, development, and use of the comparative in children ages 2-7. The role of adult-child interaction in acquisition is discussed. Tabulated results show that the comparative is used infrequently by young children. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, French, Language Acquisition

Kremin, H.; Goldblum, M. C. – Linguistics, 1975
Patients with cortical lesions, both with or without aphasia, were asked to reconstruct sentences. It was found that syntactic comprehension deficits exist only in aphasics. Two groups are distinguishable, those with deficits due to problems of repetition and those with deficits due to problems of object recognition. (Text is in French.) (TL)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Language Handicaps, Language Research, Linguistic Performance

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
Ingram, David – 1972
A study made to examine the development in production of the English verbal auxiliary and copula (VAC) "to be" compared a group of children with language dysfunction and a group of normal children. Two purposes were to see whether developmental differences are qualitative or quantitative and to calculate the importance of the VAC in language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps, Language Skills

Schmidt-Radefeldt, Jurgen – Zielsprache Franzosisch, 1973
Discusses the teaching of language for use in practical situations, i.e., using language in various communication contexts. (DD)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Grammar, Language Instruction, Linguistic Performance

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
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

Lentin, Laurence – Langue Francaise, 1975
Examines the relationship between language acquisition and current linguistic theory, with specific reference to Chomsky's work. Linguistic areas that should be explored in relation to acquisition are suggested, including regional dialect studies, the place of sociolinguistic factors in acquisition, and syntax. Suggestions as to how to analyze…
Descriptors: Child Language, French, Language Acquisition, Language Research

Brannon, John B., Jr. – Language and Speech, 1968
A group of three-year-old children was compared to one of four-year-old children in the usage of 26 syntactic transformations on the basis of 60 utterances per child. The older group used significantly more sentence transformations per child and significantly fewer simple active declarative sentences than the younger. Among the older group 10 out…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Usage, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance
Whitaker, Harry A. – 1968
This paper is part of a current dissertation project exploring the relationships between constructs in linguistic theory and pattern of language behavior in aphasic adults. The author feels that linguists have done little enough work in the area of speech pathology yet they have discussed at length the distinction between competence and…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Language Handicaps, Language Research, Linguistic Competence
Gonzalez, Gustavo – 1973
To determine the normal sequence of the development of Spanish phonology and Spanish grammatical patterns in the speech of native Spanish speakers, ages 2-5, a study of the acquisition of interrogative formation was undertaken. Two male and two females from each of nine age intervals between two and five were selected as informants; all were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Performance, Native Speakers