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HUNT, KELLOGG W.; AND OTHERS – 1968
THE PURPOSES OF THIS EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED IN THE TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE (1) TO STUDY DIFFERENCES IN SENTENCE STRUCTURES AMONG STUDENTS VARYING IN CHRONOLOGICAL MATURITY AND MENTAL ABILITY WITHIN GRADES 4, 6, 8, 10, AND 12, AND (2) TO SEE IF AN INSTRUMENT COULD BE DEVISED TO EFFICIENTLY MEASURE SYNTACTIC MATURITY. THE INSTRUMENT…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, High Achievement
Houston, Susan H. – 1968
On the basis of a study of the language of 22 black children in a rural county of northern Florida, the author states that apart from geographical dialects, there are two "genera" of English: Black (BE) and White (WE). Within each of these genera there are two varieties: Educated and Uneducated. These are further defined by…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Deep Structure, Dialect Studies, Economically Disadvantaged
Stanley, Julia Penelope – 1978
Any theory of stylistics sets itself the task of accounting for choices made by a speaker/writer among theoretically available and more-or-less equivalent linguistic structures. This task is a stumbling-block in the way of most attempts to construct a theory of style because there is no consistent method of defining 'available structures' and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Discourse Analysis, English, Grammar

Stiehm, Bruce G. – 1977
There is a set of difficult Spanish grammar questions (ser-estar, preterite-imperfect, subjunctive-indicative, word order, and prepositions) in which the description of the semantic component is essential. Even though generative formulations treat them in differing ways, these questions possess the common characteristic of associating a form…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Traits, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
Ashby, William J. – 1977
In the French verb phrase, negation is often marked twice, by a proclitic element (ne) and by a second negative (such as "pas" or "rien"). Until the seventeenth century, the first element was obligatory, while a second negative was optionally added for emphasis or precision. Subsequently, the second negatives lost their…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, French, Language Research

British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1973
This selective bibliography lists 4 books and 11 journal articles dealing with Italian-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1957 to 1973 with the majority published since 1965. The books cited are American or Italian publications and the articles appeared in well-known European or American pedagogical language journals. (TL)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English

British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1975
This selective bibliography lists 14 books and 24 journal articles dealing with French-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1954 to 1975 with the majority published since 1965. The books cited are mostly European or American publications and the articles appeared in well-known European or American pedagogical language…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English

British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1974
This selective bibliography lists 4 books and 14 journal articles dealing with Portuguese-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1948 to 1972 with the majority published since 1965. The books cited are Brazilian or European publications and the articles appeared in well-known Brazilian or American pedagogical language…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English

British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1973
This selective bibliography list 9 books and articles and 8 theses dealing with Persian-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1951 to 1971 with the majority published since 1965. The theses were prepared mostly in Persian or American universities, and the articles appeared in well-known American pedagogical language journals.…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English

British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1973
This selective bibliography lists 10 books and articles dealing with Czech-English contrastive studies and 2 articles on general Slavic studies. The entries range in date from 1959 to 1972 with the majority published since 1965. The books cited are European or American publications, and the articles appeared in well-known European or American…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Czech
Jokovich, Nancy – 1975
This is a bibliography of American doctoral dissertations in linguistics completed between 1965 and 1967. It is an update of Phillip R. Rutherford's "Bibliography of American Doctoral Dissertations," which covered the years 1900-1964 and was published by the Center for Applied Linguistics in 1968. There are 614 entries in the present bibliography,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Diachronic Linguistics
Qafisheh, Hamdi A. – 1970
Contrastive analysis is vitally associated with foreign language teaching. A competent bilingual's intuition about the relationship of the forms in the two languages is the most important part of the valid data for analysis. By means of contrastive analysis major grammatical problems for American students learning Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) noun…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages)
Carpenter, Patricia A.; Just, Marcel Adam – 1975
This research explored the fundamental processes involved in comprehending linguistic material: the duration of the process, the sequence of processes, and the sources of errors. One project examined the comprehension of affirmative and negative sentences that are read and verified with respect to a picture. A model developed to account for the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Skills, Language Tests

Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana, Ed.; And Others – 1971
The first volume of this series is divided into reports, studies, and preliminary results of work in progress. All were presented at a meeting on contrastive linguistics held in Romania. The project is intended to reveal the specificity of the structures and systems of Romanian and English with a view to comparing them and, on that basis,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English
Chitoran, Dumitru, Ed. – 1974
The sixth volume of this series contains eight contrastive studies in the syntax and semantics of English and Romanian. They are: "Criteria for the Contrastive Analysis of English Nouns," by Andrei Bantas; "Adjectives as Noun Modifiers in Post-Verbal Position," by Ioana Poenaru; "Towards a Semantic Description of 'Tense'…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics