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Nippold, Marilyn A. – 1998
This book focuses on the more advanced language abilities of upper grade youth and adolescents. It discusses how language develops from childhood to adulthood. The book compiles, integrates, and interprets the extensive research on this population for numerous topics. It is useful to anyone seeking an increased understanding of the relationships…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Moats, Louisa Cook – 2000
This book argues that elementary school teachers should study language, because knowledge of language is the foundation for teaching children to read explicitly and systematically. The book is written in nontechnical, accessible language and seeks to help the reader to understand the organization of written and spoken English, discover the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education

Fava, Elisabetta – Language Sciences, 1996
Compares indirect "wh"-questions and independent relatives, points to the absence of a clear-cut boundary between these two types of construction, and argues for the indispensability of semantic and pragmatic analysis for syntactic theory. The article emphasizes that it is the answer to a question that supplies the determinate element…
Descriptors: Baltic Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis

Kagan, Dona M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1988
The degree to which tests of divergent production may be confounded by verbal ability and loquacity; and relationships among divergent thinking, social competency, and the syntactic complexity of prose written by 61 fifth and sixth graders were assessed. Complex thinkers may appreciate the value of simplicity in facilitating communication. (TJH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Communication Skills, Creativity Tests, Divergent Thinking

Hughes, Diana L.; And Others – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) is a measure of spoken syntax that provides a numeric variable, provides some developmental data, and serves an organizing function for asking and answering clinical questions. DSS is useful in making diagnostic judgments, selecting goals and planning treatment, and measuring intervention efficacy. Difficulties…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods

Vainikka, Anne; Young-Scholten, Martha – Second Language Research, 1996
Analyzes data on the acquisition of German by Italian and Spanish speakers. Findings reveal that children learning a first language and adults learning a second language build up syntactic structure in much the same manner, and propose that the weak continuity approach of language acquisition accounts for all instances of syntactic acquisition.…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Developmental Stages, German
Raillard, Sabine – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
Focuses on factors influencing the mastery of a foreign language and one's native tongue. Both the child-mother relationship and the teacher-student relationship greatly influence the desire and propensity of an individual to acquire fluency in the language being taught. To learn to speak signifies a wish to use a language and become immersed in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language, Elementary Education
Zimmerman, Irla Lee; Castilleja, Nancy Flores – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2005
The PLS-4 (Preschool Language Scale, 4th edition) is a psychometrically sound instrument constructed to assess language skills in children from birth to 6 years 11 months. It is a useful diagnostic and research tool that can be used to identify current comprehension and expressive language skills and can measure changes in language skills over…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Intervention, Semantics, Syntax
Mizuno, Mitsuharu – Kanagawa University Studies in Language, 1993
The purpose of this paper is to describe the function of English articles in a functional-pragmatic perspective, to clarify how the functions of the articles are reflected in the discourse, and to give some pedagogical implications for teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). Deixis is a grammatical category involving reference to…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Computer Assisted Instruction, Determiners (Languages), Discourse Analysis
Chang, Suk-Jin – 1996
The grammar of the Korean language presented here is descriptive and structural, and does not align with any particular theory. An introductory chapter gives some background information about the language and related research. Subsequent chapters treat: writing and sound systems, including some sound rules and suprasegmental features; morphology…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Westphal, German F., Ed.; And Others – 1992
Papers delivered at the conference on linguistics include: "On the Metrical Unity of Latinate Affixes"; "Epistemic Small Clauses and Null Subjects"; "Scrambling as Non-Operator A'-Movement: Variable vs. Null Epithet"; "Polarity, Inversion, and Focus in English"; "Phrasal Input to Derivational Morphology…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Dutch, English, Foreign Countries
Shanahan, Timothy – 1982
A study examined the relationship of multiple measures of reading and writing at the second and fifth grade levels. Multiple reading tests (measuring vocabulary, word recognition, sentence comprehension, and passage comprehension) and writing tests (evaluating vocabulary diversity and syntactic complexity, and providing qualitative and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 5, Measurement Techniques
Hedayet, Nagwa – 1990
A study investigated patterns in the apparent syntactic errors of native English-speaking, upper-level learners of Arabic as a foreign language. One hundred writing samples, including summaries, criticisms, and free composition, were gathered from a number of university courses. Error types analyzed included articles, subordinate clauses, two-word…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Difficulty Level
Andersson, Erik; Ostman, Jan-Ola – 1978
The encoding of Swedish syntactic information in a study of linguistic data processing is described in detail. The choice of syntactic variables and classification criteria, illustrated with examples, is also discussed. In addition, uses of the coding for contrasting languages, as in this study's comparison of Swedish, Finnish, and English word…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Data Processing
Joseph, Brian D., Ed. – 1986
A collection of papers relevant to historical linguistics and description and explanation of language change includes: "Decliticization and Deaffixation in Saame: Abessive 'taga'" (Joel A. Nevis); "Decliticization in Old Estonian" (Joel A. Nevis); "On Automatic and Simultaneous Syntactic Changes" (Brian D. Joseph);…
Descriptors: Arabic, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Diglossia