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Hock, Donald D. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1984
Discusses the differences in power among people of all societies, which are reflected by pronoun usage (or other grammatical indications) or, in the case of English, by some other linguistic means. Since English can no longer distinguish solidarity and power by means of pronouns, it relies on the use of first names and titles to accomplish the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cultural Awareness, Language Research, Language Universals
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Sinclair, H.; Bronckart, J. P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Analysis showed that the majority of subjects applied a coherent strategy to three-word utterances presented in different word orders, and confirmed the existence of two primitive strategies. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Universals