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Download full textBarnitz, John G. – 1979
A study of 191 native English speaking working class children in grades two, four, and six was undertaken to investigate the development of reading comprehension of selected pronoun-referent structures. Three linguistic comparisons were made: referent type, reference order, and referent distance. Target sentences were constructed with these…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Pronouns, Readability, Reading Comprehension
Anderson-Selander, Sandy E. – 1979
A syntax methodology provides a descriptive mechanism to enable machine readable storage and retrieval of numeric data contained in bibliographic documents. The body of this paper treats the nature of "the syntax,""the data element," and the language by which this syntax is expressed. A discussion of the methodology illustrates…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Databases, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
PRATT, ARNOLD W.; AND OTHERS, Eds. – 1968
IN OCTOBER 1966 A SEMINAR WAS HELD IN BETHESDA, MARYLAND ON THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN LANGUAGE RESEARCH. THE ORGANIZERS OF THE CONFERENCE, THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, ATTEMPTED TO BRING TOGETHER EMINENT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MAJOR SCHOOLS OF CURRENT LINGUISTIC RESEARCH. THE PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Research Needs
PDF pending restorationDYEN, ISIDORE – 1967
THIS PRELIMINARY EDITION COMPRISES A DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR OF INDONESIAN (BAHASA INDONESIA), THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA. THE THREE SECTIONS--PHONOLOGY, SYNTAX, AND MORPHOLOGY--PRESENT A COMPREHENSIVE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF INDONESIAN, WITH OCCASIONAL CONTRASTIVE REFERENCE TO MALAY, JAVANESE, SUNDANESE, AND SUMATRAN. THIS…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Indonesian
KRAFT, CHARLES H. – 1963
A COMPANION TO THE FIRST TWO VOLUMES OF THE STUDY OF HAUSA SYNTAX, THIS THIRD PART USES NINETEEN SPECIFIC TEXTS TO ACQUAINT THE READER WITH THREE TYPES OF WRITTEN HAUSA--PRINTED NARRATIVE, EXTEMPORE NARRATIVE, AND NEWSPAPER TEXTS. (THE FIRST TWO VOLUMES DEAL WITH STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION WORDS, RESPECTIVELY.) THE ENTIRE CORPUS IS APPROXIMATELY…
Descriptors: Grammar, Hausa, Reading Materials, Sentence Structure
LEVIN, HARRY; WANAT, STANLEY – 1967
THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN READER EFFICIENCY IN PROCESSING SENTENCES AND DIFFERENCES IN THE DEEP STRUCTURE OF THE STIMULUS SENTENCES WERE STUDIED. THE EFFICIENCY OF PROCESSING, AS MEASURED BY THE SUBJECTS' EYE-VOICE SPAN, VARIED WITH CHANGES IN THE DEEP STRUCTURE. COMPARISONS WERE MADE BETWEEN READER PROCESSING OF PAIRS OF SENTENCES IN WHICH THE…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Eye Voice Span, Oral Reading, Responses
HOPE, HENRY W. – 1966
A BIBLIOGRAPHIC LISTING WAS COMPILED IN CONNECTION WITH A RESEARCH PROJECT ON THE SYNTAX OF CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE. THE DOCUMENT WAS NOT INTENDED TO BE AN EXHAUSTIVE INVENTORY OF CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN LITERATURE. SUBJECTS INCLUDED ARE FICTION AND NON-FICTION IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES. ANNOTATIONS ARE NOT INCLUDED. THE DATES…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Essays, Fiction, Literature
ROSENBAUM, PETER S. – 1965
A CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTY OF CERTAIN TYPES OF SENTENCE EMBEDDING IN ENGLISH IS THE DELETION OF THE INITIAL NOUN PHRASE OF THE EMBEDDED SENTENCE WHEN THE NOUN PHRASE IS IDENTICAL TO SOME NOUN PHRASE IN THE MAIN SENTENCE. EXAMPLES OF THIS PHENOMENON ARE SENTENCES LIKE "JOHN CONDESCENDED TO GO" AND "JOHN DEFIED BILL TO GO."…
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Nouns, Phrase Structure
DOLBY, J.L.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THE STUDY IS CONCERNED WITH THE LINGUISTIC PROBLEM INVOLVED IN TEXT COMPRESSION--EXTRACTING, INDEXING, AND THE AUTOMATIC CREATION OF SPECIAL-PURPOSE CITATION DICTIONARIES. IN SPITE OF EARLY SUCCESS IN USING LARGE-SCALE COMPUTERS TO AUTOMATE CERTAIN HUMAN TASKS, THESE PROBLEMS REMAIN AMONG THE MOST DIFFICULT TO SOLVE. ESSENTIALLY, THE PROBLEM IS TO…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, Data Processing, English
BROTZMAN, ROBERT – 1964
THE FORM OF A GENERATIVE SYSTEM FOR FUNDAMENTAL VOICE FREQUENCY IN MANDARIN CHINESE IS DISCUSSED, AND SEVERAL ASSUMPTIONS ARE MADE IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE PROBLEM TO A MANAGEABLE SIZE. DATA WAS GATHERED FROM TWO SPEAKERS BY HAVING THEM READ A PREPARED LIST WHICH CONTAINED ISOLATED WORDS, TWO-TUPLES, AND THREE-TUPLES IN ALL POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS OF…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Mandarin Chinese
KAHANE, HENRY; KAHANE, RENEE – 1960
PROBLEMS DEALING WITH LEVELS OF SPEECH AND LEVELS OF ANALYSIS IN CONNECTION WITH MODERN GREEK LEXICOGRAPHICAL STUDY WERE DISCUSSED. CONCERNING THE POSSIBLE CONSTRUCTION OF A COMPETENT BILINGUAL DICTIONARY, THE INVESTIGATORS SUGGESTED THAT THE VARIOUS STRUCTURES (NAMELY, PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, AND SYNTAX) BE TIED TOGETHER TO INVOLVE (1) LISTING IN…
Descriptors: Greek, Language Patterns, Lexicography, Linguistics
Walpole, Jane R. – 1979
"Strunctional" analysis identifies, simultaneously yet separately, both the structural and functional links that tie sentence pairs together. Coherence in prose results from an appropriate combination of structural and functional relations between each sentence pair. Structural links between sentences comprise syntactic and lexical links;…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Prose, Sentences
Robinson, Jane J. – 1968
In this paper the author shows that dependency grammars are not only equivalent to structure-free phrase-structure grammars (i.e., equally adequate), but are even more informative: they express both the "is a" relation which phrase-structure grammars express and the "governs" relation which phrase-structure grammars obscure. It…
Descriptors: Context Free Grammar, Deep Structure, Phrase Structure, Syntax
Rosenberg, Sheldon – 1968
Ninety-six subjects were assigned randomly to eight groups of 12 subjects. The independent variables were (1) controlled association strength between groups of words within a string (high association [HA] versus low association [LA]), (2) syntactic structure (grammatical [G] versus ungrammatical [U] strings), and (3) instructions (ordered learning…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Grammar, Language Research, Psycholinguistics
Silva, Clare M. – 1973
This paper is concerned with the metathesis of contiguous sibilants and stops. The paper is divided into the following parts: 1) a summary of several different descriptions of obstruent metathesis, 2) a list of examples illustrating the process, 3) discussion of experimental work on the perception of the clusters, and 4) concluding remarks noting…
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Morphophonemics
