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Braun, Carl; Klassen, Bernard – 1970
A study designed to investigate to what extent ethno-linguistic background affects speech patterns and syntactic flexibility of grades one, four and six children from monolingual, bilingual-French and bilingual-German rural communities. A total of 216 randomly selected subjects were used; they were selected from nine rural Manitoba schools, and…
Descriptors: Age, Bilingualism, Child Language, Classification
Plewes, S. Frank – 1975
This paper examines the formal means by which Czech distinguishes transitive and intransitive verbs, and specifically the role of the particle "se" in the process usually called "derived intransitivization.""Se" is shown to perform a number of functions which preclude its being called simply an "intransitivizing…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Czech, Deep Structure
Dingwall, William Orr – 1965
This is an attempt to compile, from public sources, as complete a bibliography as possible of works related to linguistics and having to do with transformational generative grammar. The arrangement is alphabetical by author and chronological by publication or delivery date of works of a given author. The majority of items are also indexed by…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Bibliographies, Computational Linguistics, Conference Reports

Allan, K. – Journal of Linguistics, 1987
Hierarchies have been identified as determinants of constituent order. The set of such hierarchies is reviewed and ranked as determinants of NP sequencing in English. The effect of a hierarchy in other languages is compared to and contrasted with what is found in English. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis

Das-Gupta, Padmini – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987
Presents an algorithm for use in natural language document retrieval systems which automatically determines if the conjunction "and" in a statement representing an information need should be translated into a Boolean "and" or "or." The results of an experiment that used the algorithm are reported, and further research is suggested. (CLB)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Componential Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Conjunctions
Ulijn, Jan M.; Strother, Judith B. – ESP Journal, 1987
Forty-eight American (L1) and 48 Dutch students (L2), half of whom had computer science backgrounds and half of whom did not, were tested for their use of either scientific text (ST) syntactic structures or the less difficult common syntax when writing technical discourse (in Appendix). Results indicate that both L1 and L2 technical writers wrote…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Science Education, Dutch, English (Second Language)

Ajiboye, Tunde – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1987
Considers the implications of Yoruba as the Nigerian mother tongue for linguistic competence in French at the phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, and sociosemantic levels. (CB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, French

Tunmer, William E.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1988
Examines the role of metalinguistic abilities in the initial stages of learning to read. Indicates that children's ability to acquire low-level metalinguistic skills depends in part on their level of operativity, and that phonological and syntactic awareness play more important roles in beginning reading than does pragmatic awareness. (JK)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Language

Lalleman, Josine A. – Language Learning, 1987
Dutch native children and Turkish immigrant children, born and reared in the Netherlands, were asked to tell a story from a series of pictures, at age six and again at age eight. The Turkish children exhibited about the same level of narrative proficiency in Dutch as their Dutch peers. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dutch

Barnett, Marva A. – Modern Language Journal, 1986
When college students (N=124) studying French performed a cloze test, translated additional text, and recalled the reading, results indicated that both syntactic and vocabulary proficiency positively affected reading comprehension and recall of text. This supports continued attention to grammar and vocabulary-building exercises for students in…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, French, Higher Education

Walz, Joel – Modern Language Journal, 1986
Discusses whether the goal of language proficiency is reasonable or even possible given the language textbooks available. Examines the description of the French language in college-level French language textbooks (all of which take a structural approach) to see if they lend themselves to the acquisition of a functional speaking ability. (SED)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, College Second Language Programs, Content Analysis, Educational Objectives
Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju – 2003
This book describes the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole-Dravidian language family from different aspects, examining its history and writing system, structure and typology, lexicon, and recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups. The 11 chapters highlight the following: (1) "Introduction" (e.g., the…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Diachronic Linguistics, Dravidian Languages
Virtanen, Tuija, Ed.; Maricic, Ibolya, Ed. – Perspectives on Discourse, 2000
This volume brings together the majority of lectures and papers presented at the 1998 and 1999 discourse symposia at Vaxjo University. Part one, "Four Perspectives on Discourse," offers a matrix perspective on narrative, a cross cultural perspective on academic rhetoric, a cognitive perspective on informational discourse, and a construction…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Mediated Communication, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies
Wilson, Stephen – 1999
Wagiman is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the northern part of the Northern Territory by about ten people. It possesses an unusual open class of words, which are called coverbs. Most frequently coverbs are paired with an inflecting verb from a closed class to form a complex predicate. This book provides a descriptive and analytical…
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar

Rubin, Donald L. – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Examines the effects of audience adaptation and social cognitive ability on the syntactic strategies employed by four different age groups in the writing of persuasive discourse. (EKN)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary School Students, Function Words, Language Acquisition