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Amnuai, Wirada – SAGE Open, 2019
There has been a growing interest in the rhetorical move structure of research articles (RAs). Research studies reveal that articles written by native and nonnative English speakers show some similarities and differences in their rhetorical structure and linguistic features across disciplines. This study was therefore undertaken to investigate the…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Documentation, Rhetoric, Accounting
Le Sourn-Bissaoui, Sandrine; Caillies, Stephanie; Bernard, Stephane; Deleau, Michel; Brule, Lauriane – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that conversational perspective-taking is a determinant of unfamiliar ambiguous idiom comprehension. We investigated two types of ambiguous idiom, decomposable and nondecomposable expressions, which differ in the degree to which the literal meanings of the individual words contribute to the overall…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Tests, Language Skills, Research
Bohrn, Isabel C.; Altmann, Ulrike; Jacobs, Arthur M. – Neuropsychologia, 2012
A quantitative, coordinate-based meta-analysis combined data from 354 participants across 22 fMRI studies and one positron emission tomography (PET) study to identify the differences in neural correlates of figurative and literal language processing, and to investigate the role of the right hemisphere (RH) in figurative language processing.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Figurative Language, Semantics, Negative Attitudes
Young, Rodney H. – 1973
This paper concerns the question of linguistic deficiency in the bilingual setting. The author believes that language is a uniquely human phenomenon developing mainly in response to maturation in the midst of confusing linguistic input, varying in style and language according to situation. However, there seems to be no reason to expect the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Investigations, Language Ability, Language Patterns
Charrow, Veda R. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to identify and provide normative data for weighting of those nonstandard linguistic features that make up deaf English. Subjects were prelingually or congenitally deaf high school students from the California School for the Deaf and a control group of normal-hearing fourth graders from a California public school.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Research, Handicapped Children, Language Acquisition

Pfaff, Carol W. – 1971
This paper documents a coding system developed to facilitate the investigation of linguistic variation in Black English. The rationale for employment of such a system is given. The use of the coding system in a study of child Black English is described and the codes for 41 phonological and syntactic variables investigated in the study are…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Codification, English
Pearson, Charls; Slamecka, Vladimir – 1975
Research on the role of semiosis--a process in which something functions as a sign to an organism--in information processes is described. The object of the study is the structure of various types of signs, and a determination of the relationship between sign structure and information properties. The two goals focused on during the period for which…
Descriptors: Information Science, Information Scientists, Information Theory, Language Patterns
Pearson, Charls; Slamecka, Vladimir – 1977
A new theory of sign structure is proposed which explains the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic classification of signs. The theory comprises in part a language capable of relating studies of information processes across a range of disciplines, including communication science psychology, computer science, and linguistics. The power and utility of…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Computer Programs, Databases, Information Science

Irizarry, Estelle – Computers and the Humanities, 1995
Utilizes a computer program to search for legal terminology in Concepcion Arenal's 1861 treatise "The Woman of the Future." Arenal appropriated two different types of legal discourse in her work. Discusses the problems this presented for linguistic analyses. Includes fascinating details on Arenal and her work. (MJP)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Educational Change, Educational Technology

Nagi, Mostafa H. – International Social Science Journal, 1977
The role of language in cross-cultural research is investigated through analysis of: communication of information; conceptual and functional equivalence; measurement of linguistic variables; and social and language changes. Available from: UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75700 Paris, France. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Communications, Cross Cultural Studies, Language Patterns
LENNEBERG, ERIC H. – 1967
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIOLOGY AND LANGUAGE IS EXPLORED IN THIS VOLUME. THE AUTHOR BELIEVES THAT "LANGUAGE IS THE MANIFESTATION OF SPECIES-SPECIFIC COGNITIVE PROPENSITIES. IT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE BIOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES THAT MAKE A HUMAN TYPE OF COGNITION POSSIBLE." IN ATTEMPTING TO "REINSTATE THE CONCEPT OF THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Aphasia, Behavioral Science Research, Biology
DeStefano, Johanna S. – Elementary English, 1972
Report of research findings on productive language differences in beginning fifth grade Black children living in Philadelphia, as evidenced by their use of nonstandard syntactic forms in both speech and writing. (RB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 5

Livingston, Kenneth R. – 1979
A theoretical distinction is made between the growth of word meaning and the development of word sense in Vygotsky's terms. A recall from semantic memory task and the semantic differential were used to operationalize these two conceptions of meaning in a study of 72 children aged 5 to 10 years. Results replicated typical findings for the growth of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Developmental Vocabulary, Language Acquisition

Masur, Elise Frank – Child Development, 1978
Ten four-year-old boys explained how a toy worked to "high varbal" and "low verbal" two-year-old boys. Results showed that the listener's linguistic ability and conversational responsiveness influenced preschoolers' speech modifications. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Males, Preschool Children, Research
Akiyama, M. Michael – 1979
This study attempts to assess the developmental psycholinguistics hypothesis that language acquisition strategies are universal. Four types of statements were focused upon: (1) true affirmative statements (e.g., "You are a child"), (2) false affirmative statements ("You are a baby"), (3) false negative statements ("You aren't a child"), and (4)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Error Analysis (Language), Japanese