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Weisgerber, Leo – Wirkendes Wort, 1971
Questions Chomsky's postulation of an innate capacity for language use, and suggests that Chomsky is modifying his theory by including the time factor in his consideration of language acquisition. (RS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Language Ability, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
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Oller, John W., Jr. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1971
Revised version of a paper presented at the Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics, Cambridge, England, 1969. (DS)
Descriptors: Charts, Grammar, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
Hoffer, Bates – Journal-Newsletter of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1970
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diagrams, English, Generative Grammar
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Hopkins, Edwin A. – Unterrichtsprax, 1970
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Diagrams, Form Classes (Languages), German
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Bronowski, J.; Bellugi, Ursula – Science, 1970
Summarizes the results of attempts to teach a young chimpanzee to use sign language, and raises questions about the uniqueness of human language. Analyzes language development in children and suggests that humans differ from nonhuman primates in the ability to analyze the environment into parts which can be manipulated in the mind, and that it is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
Loflin, Marvin D. – J Eng Sec Lang, 1969
The underlying thesis of this article is that Nonstandard Negro English differs in its deep structure from Standard English. (Author/FWB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
Cook, Vivian J. – IRAL, 1969
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Theory
Goba, Ronald Joseph – Engl J, 1969
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, English Instruction, Grammar, Language Usage
Halliday, M. A. K. – Australian Journal of Reading, 1982
Calls for a functional, semantically-based grammar for teachers, but not for pupils, to replace the traditional formal grammar they currently rely on. (JL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Generative Grammar, Language Usage, Semantics
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Berk, Ronald A. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1980
A sampling methodology is proposed for determining lengths of tests designed to assess the comprehension of written discourse. It is based on Bormuth's transformational analysis, within a domain-referenced framework. Guidelines are provided for computing sample size and selecting sentences to which the transformational rules can be applied.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Sampling, Test Construction
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Faigley, Lester L. – College Composition and Communication, 1979
Describes a study which found that generative rhetoric instruction produced a quantitative and qualitative increase in college students' syntactic maturity. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Generative Grammar, Higher Education, Rhetoric
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Carter, Richard – Langue Francaise, 1976
The nature of the system of linguistic entities of a natural language is examined. The purpose is to define the relation between "le lexique" and an overall linguistic theory, the relation between form and meaning. (Text is in French.) (TL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, French, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Titone, Renzo – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1991
For the past 30 years, much has been written about the works of Noam Chomsky. A comparison is presented of the latest writings about Chomsky (in particular P.M.S. Hacker's 1990 work) with those written in the early 1960s. (CFM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Semantics
Fasoli, Paolo – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1992
Summarizes trends over the last century of analyzing literature (poetry and prose) through the aid of linguistic theory. The contributions and shortcomings of various schools (Structuralist, Danish, Formalist, Transformationalist, Generativist) to the evaluation of literature are briefly outlined. (LET)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Literature
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