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Peer reviewedWest, Candace; Zimmerman, Don H. – Social Problems, 1977
This study found that there are striking similarities between the pattern of interruptions in male-female interchanges and those observed in the adult-child transactions. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Language Patterns, Models, Mothers
Peer reviewedWoutersen, Mirjam; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Uses Weinreich's (1953) partition of bilingualism to describe the effects of a small typological distance on the organization of the bilingual lexicon. Using standard Dutch and the dialect of Maastricht, subjects performed an auditory lexical decision task. (30 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
Download full textSimons, Gary Francis – 1979
Strategies are developed for understanding how language variation limits communication. Methods of measuring communication are discussed, including an intelligibility measure used in the Solomon Islands. The analysis of data gathered using communication measurement is discussed. The result of the analysis is a determination of the number of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Contrastive Linguistics, Culture Contact, Diglossia
