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Zydatiss, Wolfgang – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1973
Descriptors: Classification, Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Error Patterns

Paterson, Kevin B.; Liversedge, Simon P.; Rowland, Caroline; Filik, Ruth – Cognition, 2003
Three studies investigated the comprehension of sentences containing the focus particle "only" by children and adults. Contrary to previous findings, two of the studies found that young children made errors predominantly by failing to process contrast information rather than errors in which they failed to use syntactic information to…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension
Bowerman, Melissa – 1974
This is a study of the kinds of processes involved in learning the meaning of individual lexical items, and in particular how the acquisition of lexical meaning is related to the cognitive structuring of events on the one hand and the ability to produce syntactic paraphrases of a word's meaning and other related constructions on the other. It is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Componential Analysis, Deep Structure
Kaldor, Susan; Shell, Ruth – 1970
Through an experiment investigating the processes used by several speakers of Asian languages to decode passages by speakers of Australian English, this paper seeks to establish and categorize the types of problems encountered by multilingual speakers when decoding the speech of monolingual speakers in one of their (the multilinguals') second…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis