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Silverman, Stuart H. – Mod Lang J, 1969
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Language Patterns, Language Research
Silverman, Stuart – Mod Lang J, 1969
Descriptors: Intonation, Language Patterns, Language Research, Measurement
Alitto, Susan Biele – Comp Educ Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Education, Education, International Education
Boder, Elena – Acad Therap Quart, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Dyslexia, Exceptional Child Research, Identification
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Reznick, Melvyn C. – Hispania, 1969
Descriptors: Language Patterns, North American English, Phonemes, Phonetics
Smith, Charlotte T. – 1977
One method of evaluating comprehension and language growth consists of analyzing the oral or written answers to questions about stories read to or by students and about visual representations. The method is applicable to various content areas at all levels of instruction. The T-unit or communication unit, the linguistic unit that cannot be further…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
Pepinsky, Harold B. – 1978
Male chauvinism and its counterpart, a hostile feminism, are inherently competitive stances. The discord can be mitigated, however, by a redefinition of the work situation. To cite one example of the changes which can be brought about with respect to sex-typing and the politics of language in counseling and psychotherapy, a constructive…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females, Feminism
Konopczynski, G. – 1977
A study of the utterances of young children, aged 7 to 22 months, is described. These utterances, varying in length from one to 17 syllables, contain only suprasegmental information because the verbal content was incomprehensible to hearers who were not acquainted with the child and the situation in which the utterances occured. In the corpus,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Intonation, Language Patterns, Language Research
BERNSTEIN, BASIL – 1961
THE STUDY ATTEMPTED TO RELATE THE DEGREE OF SPEECH FLUENCY TO SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS OF THE SPEAKER. THE FORM OF THE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP ACTED SELECTIVELY ON THE SPEECH POSSIBILITIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND AGAIN IN SOME WAY THESE POSSIBILITIES CONSTRAINED BEHAVIOR. THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE TRANSFORMED LANGUAGE POSSIBILITIES INTO A…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Intelligence, Language Fluency, Language Patterns
JOHN, VERA P. – 1962
THE STAGES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION ARE PRESENTED. THE FIRST STAGE OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OCCURS IN THE CHILD BEFORE THE AGE OF 2. CHILDREN LEARN FROM THOSE AROUND THEM. THE SECOND STAGE OCCURS WHEN THE CHILD STARTS TO ASK FOR THE NAMES OF OBJECTS. HE IS HELPED MOST BY THE PERSON WHO SHOWS HIM SEVERAL OBJECTS OF THE SAME NAME. THE CHILD THEN SEES…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Environmental Influences, Family Influence, Language Acquisition
Martin, Judith N.; Craig, Robert T. – 1980
Effects of sex of speaker and sex of dyad partner on selected linguistic variables were examined in four-minute segments of 20 conversations between previously unacquainted college students. Five male dyads, five female dyads, and ten mixed dyads were studied. Three significant interaction effects were found. Males and females produced about the…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Females, Higher Education, Interaction
Woods, Howard B. – 1978
This booklet deals with sentence rhythm and stress in the English language. It is intended for English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction and is particularly appropriate for native speakers of French. Based on the cognitive approach to language learning, the booklet presents first an analysis of the material to be learned, and secondly, drills…
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Intonation
Gorayska, Barbara – Interlanguage Studies Bulletin-Utrecht, 1978
Techniques of teaching the English finite verb to speakers of other languages must account for meaning that is signalled by the structure alone and meaning derived from the context. Accordingly, this study attempts to distinguish the semantic components of the finite verb structure. The structure is viewed as being always composed of the following…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Goldin-Meadow, Susan – 1977
Longitudinal observations of six congenitally deaf children (1-4 years old) with hearing parents were performed to determine the structure of semantic relation representation. Ss' semantic relation phrases were analyzed in terms of case relations. Cases were found to be distinguishable from each other in terms of production probability. Two…
Descriptors: Deafness, Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments
Sherrod, Kathryn B.; And Others – 1977
This study was designed to examine complexity of maternal language to 4-, 6-, and 8-month-old male and female infants in a laboratory situation as measured by mean length of utternace (MLU), frequencies of certain sentence types, and other syntactic indices. Subjects were 36 mothers and their infants. There were six male and six female infants at…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Feedback, Infants
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