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Erber-Padunov, Nancy – 1980
The adult Soviet immigrant student's transition experience in the United States is examined from three perspectives: socio-historical, methodological, and linguistic. Emphasis is placed on the necessary adaptation of existing "survival skill" English as a second language (ESL) activities in order to accommodate the cultural perceptions…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adults, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Training
Download full textSternberg, Robert J. – 1978
A total of 224 subjects participated in a study to determine how children and adults comprehend logical connectives. Specifically, the study examined the effects of age, content, and practice on the encoding and combination of logical relationships expressed by six types of logical connectives: conjunction, disjunction, conditionality,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Hakuta, Kenji – 1977
Comprehension of reversible active and passive sentences was studied with 48 Japanese children between the ages of two and six. Four types of sentences were constructed using passive and active structures and two word orders: subject-object-verb (SOV) and object-subject-verb (OSV). The basic order of elements in a simple sentence in Japanese is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Grammar
Sachs, Jacqueline – 1979
This introduction to, and comment upon, a symposium on communicative competence argues that the appropriate unit of analysis in language development is communicative competence and proposes that the development of communicative competence can be studied usefully through observing children's communication during role play. Communicative competence…
Descriptors: Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dramatic Play, Language Acquisition
Levine, Arvin – 1977
This work treats some of the important issues encountered in an attempt to synthesize natural sounding English speech from arbitrary written text. Details of the systems that interact in producing speech are described. The principal systems dealt with are phonology (intonation), phonetics, syntax, semantics, and text-view (discourse). Technical…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Artificial Speech, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Woodward, James; Markowicz, Harry – 1975
The study of pidgin and creole languages, usually emphasizing oral language codes, offers insights into language, especially as an observably dynamic phenomenon. However, channel is highly influential on the surface form of the language code. Pidgin sign language codes, not dependent on oral language codes, can serve as an ideal forum for the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Creoles, Deafness, Finger Spelling
Sajavaara, Kari; And Others – 1978
A study of the influence of English on modern Finnish was designed to determine how Anglicisms are used, how they are understood, and how they are adapted to the Finnish language system. Features of present-day Finnish were analyzed to discover to what extent the Finnish language and the Finns' sense of language are changing. Anglicisms were…
Descriptors: Comics (Publications), Cultural Influences, English (Second Language), Fiction
Shuy, Roger W.; And Others – 1976
The discussion following Roger Shuy's presentation on "The Mismatch of Child Language and School Language" focuses on the value of studying language functions, the problems associated with identifying those language functions and their stages of development, and whether knowledge of such language functions will increase reading teacher…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Conference Reports, Language Acquisition
Wispe, Lauren G. – 1977
This paper describes a study of the relationship between terminology in psychological studies and prevailing social conditions at the time of the studies. It is proposed that researchers reflect societal concerns by their choice of semantic markers (terminology). Over 3,000 psychological studies from 1900-72 were analyzed in terms of their…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Function Words, Language Patterns, Language Research
Stanley, Julia Penelope – 1977
Because of the built-in stereotyping and derogation of women that exists in the English language, the classroom teacher must face the task of finding practical answers to three popular attacks against research on sexism in English: language is a rather minor and irrelevant issue; there is no need to change language from the way it has always been;…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English, English Instruction, Females
Pepinsky, Harold B. – 1978
A Computer-Assisted Language Analysis System (CALAS) was developed as a syntactic and semantic analyzer of machine readable text in English. CALAS includes a set of computer programs, an algorithm for implementation, and human editors who assist the computer and its programmer in the processing of data. Data analysis is accomplished in three…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 24 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the influence of additional supportive context upon the reader's ability to identify the main idea of a paragraph; effects of metaphors and paraphrases as…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Bartlett, Elsa Jaffe – 1979
This study explores how children indicate that a new character or object is being introduced into a written text and how they tell their readers that a particular word refers to something which has appeared in the text before. In particular, the study focuses on information represented by noun phrases in written narrative texts. To investigate how…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Communication Problems, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues
Alexander, Richard – 1979
This theoretical study of second language learning is divided into eight sections: (1) "Elements of a Theory of Second Language Learning," (2) "Second Language Learning in the Light of Neurophysiological Findings," (3) "Cognitive Strategies in the Second Language Learning Process," (4) "On Accounting for the Role Played by Affective Factors in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences
FRANCIS, DAVID; SINOR, DENIS – 1963
THE 25 PAPERS APPEARING IN THIS SELECTION ARE GROUPED BY THE FOLLOWING GENERAL TOPICS AND AUTHORS--(A) "THE DWELLING OF THE ALTAIC PEOPLES"--S. CAMMANN, K. CZEGLEDY, M. ESZTERGAR, A. VON GABAIN, AND A. RONA-TAS, (B) "FORMS OF CULTURAL AND MUSICAL EXPRESSION AMONG THE ALTAIC PEOPLES"--P. AALTO, C. BAWDEN, A. BOMBACI, J. ECKMANN, AND K. SAGASTER,…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Anthropology, Bibliographies, Contrastive Linguistics
