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Kessler, Ann Carolyn – Lang Learning, 1969
Descriptors: Charts, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
Download full textSLOBIN, DAN I. – 1965
ONE APPROACH TO CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IS THAT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL, GENERATIVE GRAMMAR WHICH EMPHASIZES MAN'S ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND AND PRODUCE AN UNLIMITED VARIETY OF SENTENCES THROUGH CONTROL OF A LIMITED NUMBER OF LANGUAGE RULES. THUS, A CHILD LEARNS TO SPEAK BY DEVELOPING HIS OWN THEORIES OF THE STRUCTURE OF HIS LANGUAGE. STUDIES OF…
Descriptors: Child Development, English, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
Krenn, Herwig; Mullner, Klaus – 1968
The 2,459 entries in this bibliography on transformational grammar and related areas are written in, and deal with, a wide variety of languages. The listings, covering available publications up to early 1968, include texts, journal articles, papers and other works, and reviews of some of the more outstanding writings. (AMM)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedBrannon, John B., Jr. – Language and Speech, 1968
A group of three-year-old children was compared to one of four-year-old children in the usage of 26 syntactic transformations on the basis of 60 utterances per child. The older group used significantly more sentence transformations per child and significantly fewer simple active declarative sentences than the younger. Among the older group 10 out…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Usage, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance
McNeill, David – 1968
This chapter, to be included in "Carmichael's Manual of Child Psychology," edited by P.A. Mussen, deals with the connection between the acquisition of language and the growth of intellect, and the connection between both of these and the process of maturation. The author feels that various theories of development cannot account for the child's…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Phonology
Hayes, Curtis W. – English Journal, 1967
The value of a transformational model of syntax can be illustrated by comparing the taxonomic grammatical description of a complex sentence to a transformation-oriented description of the same sentence. The taxonomic approach, an immediate constituent analysis, requires 10 steps to break the sample sentence into its grammatical components; the…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Kernel Sentences, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
Connors, Kathleen – 1974
This article argues that QUE-deletion in Montreal French is a syntactic rule, rather than a phonological one, as earlier treatments had claimed. It is divided into five sections: (1) a discussion of why the rule accounting for the alternation of QUE with zero is a deletion, not an insertion rule, (2) a critique of the best known earlier…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1973
This bibliography is divided into three main sections. The first section cites one bibliography relevant to discourse analysis. The second section cites books pertaining to discourse analysis, language structure, and transformational generative grammar. The third section refers to articles in the same areas. Entries include both American and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Research
Kuroda, S.-Y.
A history of theories of transformational generative grammar is presented, and four theories are characterized as: Chomsky's initial theory, Chomsky's standard theory, the semantically-based theory, and finally Chomsky's nonstandard theory. The main issue appears to be the question of what determines sentence meaning. Specifically, it is stated…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Kernel Sentences, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure
O'Donnell, Roy C. – 1975
The Agnate Sentences Test was designed to measure awareness of the relationship between sentences that are similar in semantic content but different in syntactic structure. In this study, developmental differences in the ability to decode written syntax are observed by means of this test which was administered to 63 4th graders, 65 8th graders,…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Semantics
O'Donnell, Roy C. – 1975
This study reflects the author's efforts to synthesize ideas drawn from various linguistic theorists, especially Schlesinger, Chomsky, and Fillmore. The first section gives the theoretical background for the study. The second section discusses roles, relations, and constructs. The final section discusses the applications of the study to teaching…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Sadock, Jerrold M.; Vanek, Anthony L. – 1970
This volume, dedicated to Professor Robert B. Lees on the occasion of his departure from the University of Illinois, contains 15 papers on a variety of linguistic topics: C. L. Baker, "Problems of Polarity in Counterfactuals"; Lawrence F. Bouton, "Do So: Do+Adverb"; Chin-chuan Cheng, "Domains of Phonological Rule Application"; Joseph F. Foster,…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Bibliographies, English, Japanese
Goodman, Kenneth S.; Burke, Carolyn L. – 1969
The oral reading miscues of 18 proficient readers, six each from grades 2, 4, and 6, were divided into those which did not change syntactic structure (nontransformation miscues) and those which did (retransformation miscues) and were analyzed through the use of the Goodman Taxonomy of Reading Miscues. The two groups of miscues were compared with…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Elementary Education, Reading Development, Reading Diagnosis
Tamati, Tuneo; Kurihara, Tosihiko – 1968
In order to mechanize the processing of natural language, the linguist must make the machine interpret the meaning, or semantic content of the language, in some way or other. This means that the machine should extract not only syntactic but also semantic information from the source sentence through the analysis of it. In this paper, the authors…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, English, Japanese
Baldwin, A. L.; Frank, S. M. – 1969
To find out what factors are involved in a child's learning of syntax, investigators studied the syntactic complexity of the language a mother and child use when talking to each other. The complexity measure used was one developed by Dr. Sheldon Frank and Dr. Harry Osser, and is based on the concepts of generative grammar and transformations.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Kernel Sentences, Language Acquisition
