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Grinstead, John; Padilla-Reyes, Ramón; Nieves-Rivera, Melissa – Language Learning and Development, 2021
A locus of the difference in meaning between distributive and collective sentences can be the quantifiers that modify their subjects. A current theoretical account of distributive and collective sentences claims that sentences with quantifiers such as "the" in English, or "los" in Spanish, in subject position and an indefinite…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Vocabulary Development, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Theory
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Jeon, Moongee – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2014
This article investigates the lexical and discourse features of English text and discourse with automated computer technologies. Specifically, this article examines the cohesion of English text and discourse with automated computer tools, Coh-Metrix and TEES. Coh-Metrix is a text analysis computer tool that can analyze English text and discourse…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Computational Linguistics, Textbooks, Discourse Analysis
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Damerau, Fred J. – Linguistics, 1977
Discusses the applicability of "fuzzy sets" to explicating the notion of "vagueness." (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Semantics
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Bar-Lev, Zeb – Glossa, 1975
Investigates the assumption that sentences comprise a presupposition and an assertion. The projection problem for presuppositions is reduced to a property of presuppositions; intersentential relations are systematized, dependent on presupposition and negation; certain syntactic structures and lexical items are analyzed in terms of these relations.…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Negative Forms (Language), Semantics, Sentence Structure
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Roldan, Mercedes – Hispania, 1974
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Research, Semantics
Marin, Diego – Bulletin Real Academia Espanola, 1976
While the prenominal or postnominal position of descriptive adjectives in Spanish has been widely discussed, there is a partial aspect of this topic which is either ignored or dealt with in a perfunctory manner, namely, the possible existence of a semantic principle determining the sequence of descriptive adjectives in coordinate series of two or…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Grammar, Language Usage, Semantics
Spranger, Ursula – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1972
Syntactical aspects and semantic classification of adverbial modality in German; part one of a continuing series. (RS)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Definitions, German, Language Instruction
Ehrlich, S.; Philippe, M. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Reports on a study designed to show that Tulving's theory of encoding specificity and Bahrick's theory of associative continuity are not contradictory, rather complementary. (CLK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Memory, Recall (Psychology)
Averbach, I. L.; And Others – Russkij Yazyk Za Rubezhom, 1973
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Usage, Lexicography, Morphology (Languages)
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Nelson, Katherine – Cognitive Psychology, 1975
Transcripts of 24 spontaneous speech samples from 2 year old children are analyzed for use of nouns and pronouns in sentences. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Lexicology, Nouns
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Rivara, Rene – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Intonation, Linguistic Performance, Phonetics
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McGranahan, William J. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1971
Article based on the author's dissertation (Georgetown University, 1970). (DS)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Instruction, Research Reports
Eisenhardt, Catheryn T. – 1974
Just as a reader must bring an experiential conceptual background to the printed page, so must he bring an ability to recognize the graphic cues that signal meaning. The graphic cues or structural meaning works as a system the description of which can be outlined in three parts as the vocabulary, the structure, and the sound. What has been…
Descriptors: Intonation, Linguistics, Punctuation, Reading
Guilbert, Louis – Meta, 1973
Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dictionaries, Discourse Analysis, Morphemes
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