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Peer reviewedGowie, Cheryl J.; Powers, James E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
Discussion of the theoretical and methodological implications of six studies of the effect of children's expectations on comprehension of the passive transformation and of the Minimum Distance Principle. Study subjects were in kindergarten or elementary school. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Expectation
Gaer, Eleanor P. – J Verb Learning Verb Beh, 1969
Results of tests comparing the ability of children and adults to understand and produce sentences according to type (active, question, passive, negative) and complexity (simple, center-embedding, double-embedding). (Author/FWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Child Language, Deep Structure
Green, Eugene – TESOL Quart, 1969
Tests on children between five and nine led to the conclusion that children's ability to recognize synonymous structures is progressively developed over a period of years and that there is a scale of difficulty involved. Paper presented at the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs Annual Conference, May 1969. (FWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Child Language, Comprehension
Download full textHass, Wilbur A. – 1970
This paper discusses the interpretation of data on two types of phonological change: change in language over time in the culture, and change in the development of the individual speaker; and examines the position that these two sorts of change interact in a certain way in relation to phonological structure. If one conceives of phonology as a…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Language, Developmental Psychology
Gallagher, Joseph W. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Age Differences, Exceptional Child Research, Language Ability, Mental Retardation
Lindblad, Torsten – 1969
The divisions in transformational grammar into surface and deep structure give rise to the hypothesis that imitative-repetitive drills will never go beyond the surface structure, and that an explicit verbalization of underlying structures will result in better achievement and proficiency in second language learning. The Project described here,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, English (Second Language), Intelligence Differences, Linguistic Theory
PDF pending restorationCooley, Ralph E. – 1971
This study was based on a modification and extension of Greene's (1969) test wherein children choose structurally-transformed sentences which are synonymous with key sentences, thereby indicating recognition of the transformational relationships involved and internalization of those transformations. A similar test was devised to investigate the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dialects, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
O'Donnell, Roy C.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1967
The techniques of transformational grammar can be used effectively to identify and describe significant differences in the language competencies of children at several grade levels. The oral language responses of 150 elementary school children and 30 kindergartners (selected at random) to two silent, animated films of Aesop's "Fables" were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students
