This study investigated the development in students' nature of science (NOS) views in the context of an explicit inquiry-oriented instructional approach. Participants were 18 seventh-grade students who were taught by a teacher with "appropriate" knowledge about NOS. The intervention spanned about 3 months. During this time, students were engaged…

Direct quotation can be a source of meaning in storybook texts for beginning readers. The author of this article sketches the linguistic complexity of direct quotation and offers instructional strategies. Three aspects of direct quotation are examined: the cluster of print features and syntactic characteristics that direct quotation involves, the…

The present study had two major goals. The first goal was to assess the relative difficulty among different versions of the unexpected contents task by systematically varying the dimensions of grammatical mood (indicative vs. subjunctive) and person (self vs. other), and to examine the correlational pattern between these different versions of the…

It is cross-linguistically common for languages to undergo a diachronic increase in the range of adverbial notions that can be expressed by means of infinitival constructions, and the Romance languages are a good example of this process. Examining the development of adverbial "prepositional infinitive" constructions in Spanish, Portuguese and…

This study addresses the question of whether language dominance and cross-linguistic influence are related by investigating the acquisition of determiner omission in four bilingual German-Italian children. The study begins by showing that monolingual Italian learners omit determiners less extensively than monolingual German learners. If bilingual…

Much developmental work has been devoted to "scalar implicatures." These are implicitly communicated propositions linked to relatively weak terms (consider how "Some" pragmatically implies "Not all") that are more likely to be carried out by adults than by children. Children tend to retain the linguistically encoded…

Six experiments explored how native and non-native Spanish speakers process article-noun sequences in real time, using eye movements as a response measure. Can listeners use gender-marked articles ("la" and "el", the feminine and masculine forms of "the") to rapidly identify familiar and novel nouns? In Experiment 1, adults who learned Spanish as…

Points out to the anachronistic usage of certain pronouns in Spanish, particularly that of "usted-es" and "vosotros." (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

Previously reported data (Brown, 1973) on language acquisition were analyzed to provide information about the correspondence of form, function, and meaning. The spontaneous speech records of two children were investigated. The observation period began when the boy was 25 months old and the girl was 18 months old and lasted 11 months. The…

A study of English verbs as to their capacity for being transitive, intransitive, or both. (LG)

Research conducted under Grant GS-296 from the National Science Foundation.

THIS DICTIONARY IS INTENDED FOR SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH STUDYING VIETNAMESE. IT IS REVISED AND ENLARGED FROM THE 1959 EDITION. ADDED ENTRIES ARE MAINLY FROM NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, GOVERNMENT RELEASES, AND TEXTBOOKS. THE DICTIONARY CONTAINS BOTH BOUND MORPHEMES AND WORDS. ITS COVERAGE OF COMPOUNDS IS CONSIDERABLY GREATER THAN THAT OF THE PREVIOUS…

THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF REPORTS ON CONTEMPORARY STANDARD RUSSIAN MORPHOLOGY, THIS STUDY INVESTIGATES THE FORMAL DEVICES OF WORD-FORMATION IN RUSSIAN. THERE ARE APPARENTLY TWO TYPES OF VOWEL-ZERO ALTERNATION IN THE RUSSIAN DERIVATIONAL SYSTEM--THE FIRST BEING A MORPHOPHONEME ON THE FLEXIONAL LEVEL, AND THE SECOND IN THE DERIVATIONAL BASE OR…