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Direct linkGershkoff-Stowe, Lisa; Goldin-Medow, Susan – Cognitive Psychology, 2002
All languages rely to some extent on word order to signal relational information. Why? We address this question by exploring communicative and cognitive factors that could lead to a reliance on word order. In Study 1, adults were asked to describe scenes to another using their hands and not their mouths. The question was whether this home-made…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Nonverbal Communication, Semantics, Word Order
Peer reviewedVan Hekken, Suus M. J.; Roelofsen, Wim – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Examines the changes that occur from ages 5 to 11 in question/answer sequences of Dutch children. Function, content, form of questions, and listener response are analyzed. (EKN)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development
Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1969
Four issues of the "TESL Reporter" are presented. Contents are as follows: "The Utterance-Response Method to Pattern Drill" by Jason B. Alter; "Your Gestures and Mannerisms: A Help or Hindrance?" by Alice C. Pack; "Part II: A Structural Comparison of English and Tongan" by Ermel J. Morton; "Teaching…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1970
Four issues of "TESL Reporter" are presented. Contents include the following articles: "Feedback: An Anti-Madeirization Compound" by Henry M. Schaafsma; "Using the Personal Pronoun 'I' as a Compound Subject" by G. Pang and D. Chu; "The Consonant'L' in Initial and Final Positions" by Maybelle Chong; "Sentence Expansion for the Elementary Level" by…
Descriptors: Consonants, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Silva, David J., Ed. – 1998
A collection of research in Japanese and Korean linguistics includes: "Repetition, Reformulation, and Definitions: Prosodic Indexes of Elaboration in Japanese" (Mieko Banno); "Projection of Talk Using Language, Intonation, Deictic and Iconic Gestures and Other Body Movements" (Keiko Emmett); "Turn-taking in Japanese…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Advertising, Bilingualism, Broadcast Television
