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Kline, Charles Robert, Jr. – 1971
Using second grade children, this study was designed to investigate the differences (or lack of differences) among the Interview, the Picture Stimulus Interview, and the Free Play Situation techniques in the categories of productivity, thought groups, compound structures, complex structures, and words per thought group as a means of gaining a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grade 2, Interviews, Language Patterns
Atwood, E. Bagby – 1953
This study, an outgrowth of the "Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada," based on atlas field records covering the entire Eastern United States, enables the author to trace the geographical spread and also the social distribution of the linguistic features that are treated. Research demonstrates how early culture centers and…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Research
Holm, Wayne – 1971
As part of a study of the feasibility and effect of teaching Navajo children to read their own language first, the results of analysis of grapheme and unit frequencies noted in the speech of Navajo 6-year-olds are presented in this report. Material gathered by means of interviews conducted by 22 adult Navajos with over 200 Navajo children is…
Descriptors: Age Differences, American Indians, Consonants, Graphemes
Herbert, Charles Henry, Jr. – 1970
This study was undertaken to determine some of the effects of role change on children's language production. The questions to be answered were: (1) To what degree is the language of a 6th grade child more conplex in the tutor role than it is in the role of student?; (2) Is there a significant difference in the variety of basic language patterns…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Language Patterns
Davison, Alice – 1975
This paper deals with the counterexamples to the general principles that: (1) a sentence as utterance has only one illocutionary force, in the sense of J.L. Austin; and (2) performative verbs do not normally retain illocutionary force in embedded contexts. Various tests for illocutionary force are applied, such as substitution of another speech…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
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Hartig, Matthias – Linguistics, 1976
This paper examines language variation in terms of overdetermination and underdetermination of structural information as related to grammatical rules and the structure of social behavior. (CLK)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Language Variation
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Harris, Mary B.; Siebel, Claudia E. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Imitation, Language Patterns, Observational Learning
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Davis, Barbara Bergmann; Seitz, Sue – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1975
A study of the free speech pronoun usage of 15 normal and 15 language-delayed children (2-5 years old) showed that it is possible to distinguish between children at five different levels of language development by considering linguistically relevant pronoun properties. (Author)
Descriptors: Evaluation, Exceptional Child Research, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
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Li, Y. C. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1976
This article discusses the ordering of semantic units such as nouns and verbs in Chinese sentences, with references to problems encountered by students of Chinese. (CLK)
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Dickerson, Wayne B. – Linguistics, 1975
Spelling patterns in English and their underlying unity are described. A direction for research in the area of Anglo-Saxon and Old English words in present-day English is suggested. (RM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Graphemes
Mulder, J. W. F.; Hervey, S. G. J. – Linguistique, 1975
Based on Mulder's previous classification of all semiotic systems designed to describe the system of discrete features in human languages, this article explores a further subclassification of the genus language into species. (CLK)
Descriptors: Language, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Universals
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Lin, Shuang-fu – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1975
Explores the semantic distinctions and tonal behaviors of four types of "lai" in Taiwanese. It is concluded that some types cannot be fully understood without reference to the underlying structure, the surface structure being often insufficient for determining the tonal shape of the syllable in utterance. (CLK)
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Patterns
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Aebli, Hans – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1978
Outlines a dual model of cognitive development in which patterns of cultural stimulation are reconstructed in the child's cognition. It provides a mathematical language for the representation of structures in sensorimotor actions and verbal explanations as they occur in the context of the everyday life of the child. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences
Moskowitz, Breyne Arlene – Scientific American, 1978
Describes the different stages through which children learn to speak, how they break the language down into its simplest parts, and then develop the rules they need to put the parts together. (GA)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language, Language Learning Levels, Language Patterns
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Fuqua, Robert W.; Phye, Gary D. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1978
The effects of a prose passage's physical structure and semantic organization upon free recall performance was investigated. Passages, describing characteristics of fictitious countries, contained either five or nine paragraphs of varying lengths. Differences in the distribution of materials interacted with type of semantic organization to produce…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Learning Processes
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