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Fouquet, Egon – Russisch, 1972
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages), Russian, Sentence Structure
Holmes, V.M.; Forster, K.I. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Difficulty Level, Information Processing, Perception
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Lehiste, Ilse – Glossa, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at the December 27, 1972 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Atlanta, Georgia; research supported by the National Science Foundation. (DD)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Ambiguity, Experiments, Intonation
Andresen, Helga – Deutsche Sprache, 1973
Based on a paper presented at a Conference of the Institute for the German Language (Institut fur deutsche Sprache) December 3, 1971, in Freiburg/Breisgau, West Germany. (RS)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure, Sentence Structure
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Smith, William L.; Swan, M. Beverly – Journal of Experimental Education, 1978
Investigates whether students at different ages write "beyond" their normal syntactic maturity. The authors also discuss whether students at different levels write at a level which is syntactically less mature than their own level and, if so, to what extent they adjust their syntax when told to write for a less mature audience. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Research, Elementary Education, Higher Education
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Hupet, Michel – Linguistics, 1973
Research supported by the Fonds National belge de la Recherche Scientifique. (DD)
Descriptors: French, Kernel Sentences, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance
Hamilton, Helen W.; Deese, James – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Research supported in part by a grant from the Public Health Research Center. (DS)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Gibson, Eleanor J.; Guinet, Lynne – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Research supported in part by a research grant from the United States Office of Education to Cornell University. (DS)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Research, Learning Theories
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Vasta, Ross; Liebert, Robert M. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Elementary school children were exposed to a series of modeled, tape-recorded sentences; those containing nongrammatical prepositional constructions were always vicariously rewarded, while the remaining, grammatically correct, background sentences were not. (Editor)
Descriptors: Age, Analysis of Variance, Auditory Discrimination, Elementary School Students
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Hass, Wilbur A.; Wepman, Joseph M. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1973
Uncertainty scores of the type proposed in this study, if suitably refined, may measure the developmental progression from stereotyped reliance on individual syntactic forms to flexible utilization of productive rules. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Language Acquisition, Measurement Techniques
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Thurlow, Martha L.; Turnure, James E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Study investigated the effects of task difficulty on the paired-associate learning of retardates when extended elaboration conditions are employed. (Authors)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Mild Mental Retardation, Paired Associate Learning, Recall (Psychology)
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Richards, Jack C. – English Language Teaching, 1971
Based on a paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1970, San Francisco, California. (DS)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)
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Yuan, Boping – Language Learning, 1995
Investigated the acquisition of base-generated topics in Mandarin Chinese by British students learning Chinese. The hypothesis is not confirmed that it would not be difficult for English speakers to acquire the base-generated topic in Chinese because in the acquisition of Chinese, English-speaking learners are exposed to positive evidence of…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar
McNeill, David – 1972
On the basis of experimental data, the author makes the following observations: (1) the basic encoding processes in speech, the schemas of order, first produce elementary underlying sentences; (2) underlying sentence structure is the controlling step in the organization of speech; (3) underlying sentence structure plays a central role in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Experiments
Stieglitz, Francine – 1972
There is a need for empirical investigation of the optimal length for drill sentences at various states of second language learning. This paper reports the results of a study that explores the effects of sentence length and grammatical structure on the ability of foreign students to repeat English sentences. It was hypothesized that sentences of…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Grammar
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