NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 9,406 to 9,420 of 9,954 results Save | Export
Nichols, Ann Eljenholm – 1965
This textbook attempts to augment the general handbook information needed in any composition class with specific information that the non-native speaker needs, for example, the distribution of determiners with the various noun subclasses, and the syntactical relationship of subordinator to subordinate clause; and to apply the techniques and…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English, English (Second Language), Essays
Lester, Mark – Topics in Culture Learning, 1973
An overview of Noam Chomsky's theories about transformational grammar and phonology is given. Since Chomsky was interested in characterizing what it is to know a language, the ways in which we demonstrate knowledge of our native language are discussed in detail. Particular emphasis is placed on describing how the transformational approach actually…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Child Language, Classical Conditioning, Deep Structure
O'Hare, Thomas – 1971
This syllabus was designed to serve as the instructor's manual for courses in the teaching of German offered to elementary and secondary teachers in Texas. The material presented is divided into the following parts: (1) introduction to linguistics and phonetics and phonemics, (2) teaching pronunciation and pronunciation drills, and (3) grammar and…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, German
Allen, Harold B.; Worth, George J. – 1969
Harold Allen states that language study will become an integral component of the college English curriculum when English departments recognize that a professional knowledge of the nature and function of language, of current theoretical studies in it, and of the geographical, historical, and social variations in language is vital to understanding…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Curriculum Evaluation, English Curriculum, English Departments
Cairns, Charles; Silva, Dolores – 1969
The present level of understanding of the psycholinguistic processes and capacities underlying the child's acquisition of language is reviewed in this publication. In the first chapter, linguistic theories, biological characteristics of language learning, and the distinctions between language competence and language performance are discussed. The…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language
Keiler, Allan – 1969
In an attempt to apply recent developments in transformational grammar to Latin syntax, this report analyzes first English, then Latin sentences for both deep and surface structures through transformational and phrase structure grammar methods. Auxiliary nodes, problems of Latin verb complimentation, and the gerund and gerundive constructions are…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Instructional Innovation, Language Research
Schreiner, Robert L. – 1969
As the result of an analysis and synthesis of reading comprehension skills studies, it was suggested that teachers attempt to simplify comprehension questions by recognizing two basic types: literal and nonliteral. It was noted that a student's success in obtaining meaning depends on (1) his competency in determining word meaning, (2) his…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Factor Analysis, Factual Reading
Minke, Karl Alfred, Jr. – 1969
An analysis of part-of-speech membership was made utilizing certain mechanisms that have been proposed to explain the nature of word classes. It was proposed that words of the same form class constitute "verbal habit families" on the basis of either a common grammatical meaning response, a common affix, or a common label (e.g., "verb"). One…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), Function Words, Grammar
Wilson, Robert D. – 1971
This paper describes a reading program researched, designed, and developed by Consultants in Total Education for primary students whose mother tongue is other than English. The program includes teaching strategies that trigger universal learning strategies. The program is divided into four general stages, each stage containing particular…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language), Grammar
Kaplan, Ronald M. – 1971
This paper describes the notation and underlying organization of an augmented, recursive-transition network grammar and illustrates how such a grammar is a natural medium for expressing and explaining a wide variety of facts about the psychological processes of sentence comprehension. A general discussion of transformational grammar and…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs
O'Donnell, Roy C.; And Others – 1967
This investigation sought to learn about the oral and written language behavior of students from kindergarten age through grade 7, and to determine the validity of different analytic techniques for measuring children's development in control of syntax. Language samples were collected from 180 children (grades K-3, 5, and 7) by having the children…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, English, Evaluation Methods
Jolly, Yukiko S. – Papers in Japanese Linguistics, 1972
The designation of the Japanese word class "joshi" (in English known as particles, post-positional case markers, or relationals) by the term te-ni-wo-ha can be traced to the early superimposition of the Chinese writing system on Japanese speech. Because of the structural differences between the two languages and the existence of elements in…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Case (Grammar), Chinese, Comparative Analysis
Fillenbaum, Samuel – 1971
This article provides a discussion of current topics in psycholinguistics and of the current research on these problems. The author discusses current thought on the biological foundations of language and the problem of universals. If human language is a species-particular achievement contingent upon a biological endowment, there should be certain…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Language, Deep Structure, Grammar
Zierer, Ernesto – Lenguaje y Ciencias, 1971
This paper considers Spanish adjectives and the possibility of converting some adjectives into adverbs, keeping the same general significance of a sentence. The conversion of an adjective into an adverb under these circumstances can be accomplished through a transformation which can be applied to a particular logical-semantic structure. The author…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics
Christian, Jane – 1971
This paper compares respect forms used in Bhojpuri, standard Hindi, and suddh Hindi. The role and use of each dialect are described, and a comparison of respect forms used in each is presented, considering phonemic, grammatical, syntactical, suprasegmental, paralinguistic, and kinesic features. The differences noted appear in a continuum among the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  624  |  625  |  626  |  627  |  628  |  629  |  630  |  631  |  632  |  ...  |  664