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Rawson, Katherine A. – Cognitive Psychology, 2007
Eight experiments evaluated a core assumption of several theories of text processing, the shared resource assumption, which states that component text processes share limited processing resources. Short texts each contained two critical sentences that together warranted a causal inference. The syntactic structure of the second sentence was either…
Descriptors: Inferences, Word Processing, Syntax, Word Order
Greenbaum, Sidney – 1976
The author of this paper argues that, in the study of current usage, we need to supplement data from corpus studies by using methods that elicit use, reports of use, and evaluations of use on items which interest them. Ten methods for experimental elicitation of such data are described, related to one another, and illustrated with examples of data…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage
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Cruse, D. A. – Journal of Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Research
Feldman, Carol Fleisher – 1968
It has been demonstrated (in the research described here) that people hearing sentences on a tape recording process underdetermined sentences differently than people hearing them in a conversation. It has been shown that this difference is caused by the presence of underdetermined elements but not ordinary transformations. The effect of ordinary…
Descriptors: Language Research, Psycholinguistics, Recall (Psychology), Research Methodology
Baker, William J. – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1985
Research findings on semantic cohesion within a sentence and its effect on individuals' performance in using the sentences illustrate how research methodology can influence research outcomes. (MSE)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, Language Research
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Villiers, Peter A. de; Villiers, Jill G. de – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1972
Research supported in part by a Public Health Service grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development. (VM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Experiments
Greenbaum, Sidney – 1976
Overlapping samples of 191, 142, and 87 undergraduates rated pairs of sentences for the frequency and acceptability of the syntactic constructions represented to investigate the feasibility of using such ratings in the study of syntactic forms. The results indicated that subjects are consistent in their judgments of both the frequency and…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Higher Education, Language Patterns
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Greenbaum, Sidney – 1976
Data from undergraduates' ratings of the frequency and acceptability of selected syntactic constructions are analyzed for linguistically defined sets. Mean ratings of frequency and acceptability as well as the results from a cluster analysis of each set of sentences are given for seven target contrasts: active/passive, may/might, perfect/past,…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Higher Education, Language Patterns
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Nutter, Norma – English Education, 1981
Compares the use of sentence weight and the T-unit in measuring the oral language of 32 adolescents. Indicates the relative merits of the T-unit as a measure of oral language, because the two measures appeared to give much the same information about the speech samples examined. (RL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Methods, Language Research
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1982
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "Some Problems of YES-NO Answers" (Aleksander Szwedek); "Danish versus Russian. A Short Analysis of the Verb" (Christian Hougaard); "Polish SIE Constructions and Their English Counterparts" (Wojciech Kubinski); "More on the Time Reference and the Analysis of Tense"…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Danish, English, Grammar
Scollon, Ronald – 1974
In speaking a child sometimes makes constructions in which a sequence of separate utterances expresses a semantic relation not expressed by either utterance. These "vertical constructions" are the main point of this study. Previous studies of construction in child language have largely dealt with sentences. In this study, sentences are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Interaction, Language Acquisition
King, Alan R. – TEANGA: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics, 1995
This study examines one analysis of Somali clause structure and syntactic typology, characterized as a radical departure, and finds in it considerable grammatical insight but also some problems. Another analysis is presented that retains both the advantages of the conventional view of the Somali sentence and the structural insights of the new…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Research
O Baoill, Donall P., Ed. – 1985
Six papers on Irish English are presented. "The Study of Hiberno-English" (Jeffrey L. Kallen) surveys some aspects of research on the language and offers a historical context for the subsequent papers. "A Tape-Recorded Survey of Hiberno-English in Its Context" (T. M. Tilling) reports on the early stages of an island-wide survey…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Beebe, Ralph D. – 1971
Confronted with the problem of determining the frequency of syntactical patterns in present-day written Australian English, the author employs a method of analysis which produces an output in the form of a two-dimensional line diagram showing all the syntagms comprising the sentence under analysis. For the remaining problem of sorting the diagrams…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1985
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "Contrastive Patholinguistics: The Acquisition of English Grammatical Morphemes by German Dyslexics in a Foreign-Language Teaching Context" (Udo O. H. Jung); "Contrastive Pragmatics" (Marie-Louise Liebe-Harkort); "On Questions in English and Swedish" (Kay Wikberg); "On…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dyslexia, English, German
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