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Download full textKennedy, Graeme D. – 1990
Traditionally, the study of language patterns has been viewed primarily in terms of rules of grammar and discourse and of vocabulary choice. Researchers are now exploring the nature of collocations, or patterns of word sequence or co-occurrence in discourse. Most of the attention has been focused on colorful collocations, not on more ordinary…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Patterns
Ljung, Magnus – School Research Newsletter, 1989
A study examined the English vocabulary of English textbooks used in Swedish upper secondary schools to distinguish differences between the vocabulary of the textbooks and modern, everyday English as represented by newspapers, books and the colloquial language. Fifty-six books were included in the sample. In the selection process, account was made…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Comparative Analysis, English, Foreign Countries
Massaro, Dominic W.; And Others – 1980
A study assessed the role of orthographic structure in college students' perceptual recognition and judgment of letter strings. Lexical status, word frequency, bigram frequency, log bigram frequency, and regularity of letter sequencing were orthogonally varied across a series of experiments. Six-letter words and their anagrams were used as test…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet)
Meinke, Dean L.; And Others – 1982
Four separate experiments were completed using the same stimulus materials but different groups of subjects to determine if orienting tasks created problems of control in incidental/intentional learning studies. Subjects were all Caucasians and heterogeneous in age (from 24 to 64 years), educational experiences, and career choices. Those in the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Incidental Learning, Intentional Learning, Language Processing
Williamson, Leon E. – 1972
Using the counting features in previous mean length of utterance (MLU) studies, a study of the active vocabularies of adolescents looked at seven concrete features of the words 104 seventh grade and 100 eleventh grade subjects gave in response to 10 pictures. Each subject wrote five words for each of the pictures, which were analyzed for number of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages, Distinctive Features (Language), Grade 11
Hopkins, Carol J.; Moe, Alden J. – 1978
The complete texts of 250 trade books for children in the primary grades were analyzed by computer in order to identify recurring two- and three-word strings. Of the 202,763-word sample that resulted, 89 two-word strings occurred 100 times or more, and only two three-word strings occurred more than 100 times. These frequencies represent,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Childrens Literature, Computers
DE FRANCIS, JOHN; AND OTHERS – 1966
THIS READER, ALONG WITH "BEGINNING CHINESE READER, PART II," IS CLOSELY INTEGRATED WITH THE SETON HALL UNIVERSITY TEXTS FOR SPOKEN AND WRITTEN CHINESE, "BEGINNING CHINESE" AND "CHARACTER TEXT FOR BEGINNING CHINESE." OF THE 400 CHARACTERS IN THESE TWO READERS, ALL BUT 33 HAVE BEEN PRESENTED TO THE STUDENT IN "BEGINNING CHINESE" AND "CHARACTER…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Basic Reading, Chinese, Chinese Culture
APTE, MAHADEO L.
THE IDEAL SITUATION IN THE TEACHING OF HINDI TO AMERICAN STUDENTS SHOULD BE SUCH THAT--(1) THE TEACHER OF HINDI IS AWARE OF ALL THE LIKELY PROBLEMS ENGLISH SPEAKERS MAY FACE IN LEARNING HINDI, (2) THE TEACHER HAS DEVISED WAYS OF OVERCOMING THESE PROBLEMS, (3) HE HAS A HINDI TEXT WHICH IS ORGANIZED AND BASED ON THE RESULTS OF A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Influences, Grammar
Schuegraf, Ernst J. – 1975
A description of a retrospective document retrieval system is given in which equifrequent fragments are used as language elements for compression coding and retrieval. The critical parameters governing the system are identified, and restrictions imposed by the parameters on the selection of fragments are outlined. Changes necessary in the…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Computers, Data Processing
Miron, Murray S.; Pratt, Charles C. – 1973
As part of a continuing project of language analysis, SURC presents its final manual. This manual is an explanation of the procedures used to collect and analyze data for this project. After explaining the theory and application of the methodology, the manual discusses specific problems encountered in the design, administration, and analysis of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology
Sause, Edwin F.; Crowley, Francis J. – 1970
To find out if a computer could be programmed to efficiently analyze the psychosocial factors in the speech of children, taped language samples were collected from structured interviews with 81 male and 63 female kindergarten children. Thirty psychological and social factors relevant to children's speech were drawn from the words in the samples. A…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Kindergarten Children, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Carroll, John B. – 1971
The publication next spring of the American Heritage Word Frequency Book and the American Heritage School Dictionary will mark a new advance in the technology of dictionary and word-frequency book construction. The use of high spped computers has enabled the compilers to analyze five million words from a body of materials frequently used in…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Dictionaries, Elementary Education, Information Processing
Treisman, Michel – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Predictions were derived from the assumption that the vocabulary store underlying the auditory analysis of verbal stimuli is organized as an acoustic space rather than as a lexicon (tree) or collection. The relationship between frequency of occurrence in the language and frequency of occurrence as an error is low. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language)
Peer reviewedHolmes, Janet – Applied Linguistics, 1988
Considers previous research and data regarding the relative frequencies of a wide variety of lexical items expressing doubt and certainty in written and spoken corpuses and uses the data to evaluate the adequacy of some well-known English as a second language textbooks. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Instructional Effectiveness, Language Usage
Peer reviewedEeds, Maryann – Reading Teacher, 1985
Reports the development of a 227-word, primary-level list that was drawn from words appearing in more than 400 books for beginning readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Material Development
