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Radford, Andrew – 1997
The textbook provides an intensive introduction to recent work in syntactic theory within the minimalist framework. The approach taken is to presuppose no background knowledge of syntactic theory or historical linguistics. Rather than compare English with other languages, illustrations are drawn from varieties of English from around the world.…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Mushi, Selina L. P. – 2000
A study was conducted in 32 families in Chicago, with children ranging from 18 months to 5 years, to examine the role of parents in their young children's language acquisition. Specifically investigated were parents' attitudes on language acquisition, opportunities used to prompt their youngsters to say a new word/utterance, and the utterances…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Oral Language
Matthews, Peter – 2001
This book is a concise history of structural linguistics, charting its development from the 1870s to the present day. It explains what structuralism was and why its ideas are still central today. For structuralists, a language is a self-contained and tightly organized system whose history is of changes from one state of the system to another. This…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Intonation, Language Research, Language Universals
Crisco, Virginia – 2002
Ethnographic pedagogy builds a bridge between nontraditional students' home community with the values of the academic community, but the point of "bridging" the two communities seems to be for the student to come over to "our side." This paper proposes an ethnographic pedagogical approach that is reciprocal, bridging both…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Cultural Context, Ethnography, Higher Education
Painter, Clare – 1999
Language is a child's major tool for learning about the world. This book presents a naturalistic case study of one child's use of language from two-and-a-half to five years, drawing on systemic functional theory to argue that cognitive development is essentially a linguistic process and offering a new description and interpretation of linguistic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Gates, Louis – 1999
Using 17, 211 words drawn from the word list compiled for the Stanford Spelling Study (1963) and drawing upon the "American Heritage Dictionary of the American Language" as the pronunciation reference, a researcher approached the language as if little was known about its letter-sound relationships and examined by computer the letter-sound…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Illiteracy, Language Research
Barbara, Leila, Ed.; Rajagopalan, Kanavillil, Ed. – DELTA: Revista de Documentacao de Estudos em Liguistica Teorica e Aplicada, 1998
This document consists of three issues of DELTA, comprising its entire output for 1998. DELTA is a journal of theoretical and applied linguistics and covers a wide variety of material related to language, speech, and education. The journal publishes only original research and ideas presented in the form of articles, debates, squibs, overviews,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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Slotnick, Henry B.; Rogers, W. Todd – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Two members of the staff of the National Assessment report on one analysis that sought to relate different kinds of writing errors to each other. (RB) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Secondary Analyses).
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English Instruction, Language Research, National Competency Tests
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Greenfield, Patricia Marks – Language and Speech, 1973
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Infant Behavior
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Stevens, James H.; And Others – Language and Speech, 1973
Reports an investigation of the effect of dialect on speech discrimination scores of black and white adolescents. (TO)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Dialect Studies, Grade 10, Language Research
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Locke, John L.; Goldstein, Jeffrey I. – Language and Speech, 1973
Presents the results of a study of attention as a factor in children's natural and experimental acquisition of articulatory behavior. (TO)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Attention Span, Child Development, Child Language
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Locke, John L. – Language and Speech, 1973
Presents a review of various studies on the acquisition, nature, and function of language coding in children's learning. (TO)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classical Conditioning, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition
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Seward, B. H. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1973
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Research, Measurement Techniques
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Beasley, D. S.; Shriner, T. H. – Audiology, 1973
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Graphs
Hoosain, Rumjahn – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Paper presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Cleveland, Ohio, May 1972. (DD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Cognitive Processes, Graphs, Language Research
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