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Download full textKleiman, Glenn M. – 1977
The proposal that young children's communicative intentions stem from prelinguistic cognitive abilities is examined in detail. The most developed available formulation of this proposal, that provided by Brown (1973), is evaluated, and the evidence in support of it is found to be insufficient. Three crucial problems, which must be solved before an…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedMcGarrigle, James; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
Six experiments were reported which examine the young child's ability to compare included and nonincluded sets. Subjects were children from nursery and primary schools in Edinburgh. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Linguistic Competence
Peer reviewedMoyne, J. A. – Linguistics, 1977
Competence is defined as the knowledge of a mature speaker of a language, irrespective of questions about acquisition. It is questioned whether there can be a procedure for generating sentences as a model of this competence; it is concluded that there cannot be a precise, non-random model for competence. (CHK)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Grammar
Peer reviewedKlinzing, Dennis R.; And Others – Communication Education, 1977
Concludes that linguistic and visual-linguistic training sessions do not increase children's ability to comprehend reversible passive sentences. (MH)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Peer reviewedLazarus, Peggy G. – Theory into Practice, 1984
Kindergarten children were observed in a classroom situation to discover communicative competence in the sociolinguistic area. These children demonstrated competency in awareness of regularities in use of language in the classroom, ability to publicize confusions, and variations in ways of speaking. (DF)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Kindergarten Children, Linguistic Competence
Peer reviewedCutting, James E. – Psychological Review, 1976
A number of phenomena in speech perception have been called fusion, but little effort has been made to compare these phenomena in a systematic fashion. This paper examines six of them. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Experiments, Linguistic Competence, Listening Comprehension, Psychological Studies
Peer reviewedObanya, P. A. I. – French Review, 1974
Descriptors: French, Language Teachers, Language Usage, Linguistic Competence
Peer reviewedShafer, Robert E. – English in Education, 1973
Discusses the use of linguistic resources the child has already acquired when he comes to school in helping him learn to read and communicate effectively. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, English, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedDowning, John – Visible Language, 1973
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence, Literacy, Reading Development
Peer reviewedSt. Clair, Robert – Language Sciences, 1973
The claim that dialects of a language do not always share the same underlying forms is known as the independency principle. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Dialects, Grammar, Language Patterns
Peters, U. H. – Archiv fur Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten, 1973
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Linguistic Competence, Schizophrenia, Semantics
Peer reviewedCain, Betty – College Composition and Communication, 1973
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction, Language Research
DeLavergne, Mary – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 1972
Command of two or more foreign languages might be a passport to a career as an interpreter. (Editor)
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Employment Qualifications, Interpreters, Language Skills
Wunderlich, Dieter – Langages, 1972
Special issue devoted to the study of generative grammar in German-speaking countries. (VM)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Linguistic Competence
James, Carl – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1972
Text of a paper read at the Audio-Visual Language Association Seminar held October 29-31, 1971, at University College of North Wales, Bangor. (DS)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
