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Erber, Norman P.; Cramer, Kathryn D. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1974
In order to determine how well persons can learn to recognize vibratory speech patterns, six normally-hearing adults felt speech presented to their fingertips through vibrators. (Author)
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Deafness, Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments
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Langacker, Ronald W. – Language, 1974
This paper offers a functional explanation for the existence and for the special properties of movement rules in natural languages. The hypothesis is advanced that raising, lowering, and fronting rules all serve the function of increasing the prominence of objective content in surface structure. (CK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
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Just, Marcell Adam; Brownell, Hiram H. – Canadian Journal of Psychology, 1974
This study examines whether or not abstract or concrete prose material is easier to learn and remember. The results indicate that concrete paragraphs were consistently faster to learn and easier to remember. (DE)
Descriptors: Language, Language Patterns, Language Research, Learning Processes
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Rosoff, Gary H. – Linguistics, 1974
Classical Latin, Vulgar Latin, and Romance vowel sounds and their production are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Diachronic Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns
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Hsueh, F. S. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1974
The Chinese numerical system and its contrastive aspects with the English system are discussed, as well as some implications of the numerical system in the spoken language. (RM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar
Manolakes, George – Elementary English, 1975
Spelling research indicates that many children already know how to spell a large number of the spelling words for their grade level and thus may be receiving unnecessary instruction. (JH)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Error Patterns, Language Patterns
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Sarachan-Deily, Ann Beth; Love, Russell J. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1974
Descriptors: Deafness, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition
Mayer, Edgar – Francais dans le Monde, 1975
Discusses and exemplifies the author's use of transformational methods to clarify the seemingly arbitrary use of "de" and "a" to introduce the infinitive in French. (Text is in French.) (MSE)
Descriptors: French, Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Second Language Learning
Buyssens, Eric – Linguistique, 1974
An examination of various linguists' definitions of parataxis, asyndeton, and juxtaposition shows that the concepts are often varying and lack precision. The author offers new definitions which distinguish three specific cases. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Definitions, Function Words, Grammar
Francois, Frederic – Linguistique, 1974
This article discusses the relationship between the linguistic description of language and the speaker's acquisition and use of language, with specific reference to the role of paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationships in the acquisition of definition as a linguistic behavior. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Definitions, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
Nespoulos, J.-Luc – Linguistique, 1974
This article questions the validity of a mathematical theory of communication as applied to the study of language. The main argument is that the linguist must consider the vertical ordering of elements as well as the linear quality of language. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
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Hsin-I, Hsieh – Language Sciences, 1974
Reports an experiment intended to assess the psychological reality of the underlying clauses in "resultative constructions" in English. (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, English, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Scott, Robert Ian – Language Sciences, 1974
Reports research at the University of Saskatchewan in which experiments with variously rearranged English and French sentences showed grammatical acceptability decreasing as the disruption of the sentence producing field of subject, verb, object, qualifier increased. (RM)
Descriptors: English, French, Language Patterns, Language Research
Zolondek, Debbie – 1988
An analysis of a corpus of 252 specialized terms relating to the field of videotex, 144 in French and 108 in English, is presented in this document. The methods by which these terms are formed in both languages is examined, focusing on whether the terms have a linguistic basis in the French language or are borrowed from English. The differences…
Descriptors: English, Etymology, Foreign Countries, French
Berman, Ruth A. – 1989
The acquisition of morpheme-structure constraints by children is discussed. The focus is a subset of verbs in modern Hebrew and the language-specific knowledge that children acquire of what constitutes a possible verb in their language, from the point of view of both internal form and of categorical appropriateness for naming a certain semantic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Form Classes (Languages), Hebrew, Language Acquisition
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