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Cain, Kate; Towse, Andrea S.; Knight, Rachael S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
Two experiments compared 7- and 8-year-olds' and 9- and 10-year-olds' ability to use semantic analysis and inference from context to understand idioms. We used a multiple-choice task and manipulated whether the idioms were transparent or opaque, familiar or novel, and presented with or without a supportive story context. Performance was compared…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Language Processing, Comparative Analysis
Weber, Rose-Marie – Reading Teacher, 2008
Direct quotation can be a source of meaning in storybook texts for beginning readers. The author of this article sketches the linguistic complexity of direct quotation and offers instructional strategies. Three aspects of direct quotation are examined: the cluster of print features and syntactic characteristics that direct quotation involves, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Oral Reading, Semantics, Text Structure

Lumby, Malcolm E. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1974
Stresses the importance of verbal elaboration when discussing general semantics in the presence of a neophyte, pointing out that definitional or illustrative emendations attached to mnemonic devices may be particularly useful to the listener. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Skills, Linguistics
Spilka, Irene V. – Meta, 1975
This article discusses the gender system in the French language, specifically as a function of sex discrimination in employment advertising. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, French, Language Ability, Language Patterns
Nagara, Susumu – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1976
The Japanese Keigo system is the whole of the grammatical rules related to expressions of respectful or pejorative feelings concerning all persons involved in speech acts. This article proposes a new approach to the problem of teaching this system at the elementary level. (CLK)
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Language Skills
Byers, Prudence P. – 1982
Literary artists manipulate language. If educators could develop in their students the same sense that language is manipulable, they could help them to better appreciate literature. Emily Dickinson's poem "I Like to See It Lap the Miles" could be approached by changing it on several levels--graphics, phonics, syntax, and semantics--and…
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Patterns
LOBAN, WALTER – 1963
THIS 7-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE LANGUAGE SKILLS OF 338 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SCHOOL CHILDREN UTILIZES A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF BOTH THE SEMANTIC AND STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE. A SPECIFIC METHOD OF LANGUAGE ANALYSIS HAS BEEN SHAPED. THE "SEGMENTATION" METHOD OF ANALYSIS USES SEVERAL TYPES OF SENTENCE SEGMENTS. A…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary School Students, Language Arts, Language Patterns

Gordon, W. Terrence – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1986
The linguistic complexity of humor is illustrated with examples of word play translated from French to English and English to French. Examples from the writings of James Joyce and Marcel Proust are highlighted. (CB)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, French, Humor

Caccia, Paul – English Journal, 1991
Describes the use of language analysis and speech-act categories (declarations, assertives, directives, commissives, and expressives) to deal with meaningful classroom concerns, thereby enabling the teacher and students to work more effectively together. (KEH)
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts, Language Patterns

Milner, Joseph O. – 1977
A study was undertaken to see whether developmental patterns of language acquisition could be discovered in children beyond age five. Specifically, the study attempted to uncover a pattern in the development of the skill of stress interpretation, or the understanding of the effect of emphasis of a particular word on the deep structure of the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Mood, Darlene Weisblatt – 1975
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of varying the semantic content of active and passive sentences along a dimension of "personalness" on the comprehension of those sentences by preschool age children. The study focuses on a current linguistic controversy dealing with the relative adequacy of syntax-based and…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Haskins Labs., New Haven, CT. – 1979
This report is one in a regular series on the status and progress of speech research. The 11 manuscript topics are: towards a theoretical reassessment of the role of proprioception in the perception and control of human movement, interarticulator programing in stop production, the beginnings of speech, proofreading errors on the word "the," the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Beginning Reading, Japanese, Language Patterns

Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. – 1973
The research reported in this paper concerns an initial study asking two questions: Is second language learning like first language learning? Is there a change in learning rate or process with age? A nonrandom sample of children aged 4 to 9 years was studied. Subjects were 31 English-speaking children in Geneva, Switzerland, who were in schools…
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition
Garfinkel, Alan; And Others – 1977
This workbook is designed for second level students of Spanish and contains thirty units, each unit focusing on a selected topic and the Spanish idioms relevant to that topic. Each unit includes a list of the idioms, a dialogue containing the idioms, completion exercises, paraphrase exercises, and suggestions of activities to help students learn…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), Idioms, Instructional Materials
Bozinou, Effie; Curley, James – 1978
Bilingual and monolingual children were presented with experimental conditions where response mode and semantic information was varied. Forty children, 20 in each language-type group, responded in the present progressive and the past tenses to a series of colored drawings of simple activities. Half of the subjects responded to the task under…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Development
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