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Duchan, Judith; Oliva, Joseph – Language Sciences, 1979
Reports on a study which explored the intonational differences between constant plus variable utterances and variable plus variable utterances, and which sought to use intonation to resolve the lexical additive vs syntactic representation of beginning productions. (AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Intonation, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns

Houston, Susan H. – Language Sciences, 1970
In dealing with the differences between the school and non-school language of Black children, the author uses a contingency grammar," which considers all speakers of a language to have the identical linguistics competence but includes a level of systematic performance" to account for dialectal and other systematic differences. (FB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Language Styles, Linguistic Competence

Kronenfeld, David B. – Language Sciences, 1979
Examines the innate faculties that underlie linguistic competence, especially syntactic competence, and proposes a theory of these faculties which accounts for the complexities of language and the evolution of human language. (AM)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Ability