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Ladd, D. Robert, Jr. – Language, 1978
This articles discusses intonation in terms of different kinds of contours and demonstrates the inadequacy of any approach to English intonation which treats contours as sequences of significant pitch levels. (NCR)
Descriptors: Intonation, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
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Edelsky, Carole – Language Arts, 1976
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Educational Research, Language Acquisition
Taylor, Orlando L. – Journal of Non-White Concerns in Personnel and Guidance, 1978
The thesis is that a test taker's chances for success on a standardized test are related to the similarity between the test taker's linguistic competence and the linguistic presuppositions of the test. This article is adapted from a paper presented at the 1977 Georgetown University Roundtable of Linguistics. (Author)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Language Patterns, Linguistics, Standardized Tests
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Yamamoto, Akira Y. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1977
Presents a case study in which the use of intricate varieties of levels of honorifics in Japanese is more complicated than traditional sociolinguistics has shown. The buraku (Japanese barrio) treated here is situated in the west part of Honshu, Japan, and consists of 13 households. (CHK)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Japanese, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Cottier, Susan J.; Koehler, Sheri A. – Journal of Reading, 1978
Outlines a program of seven sessions designed to teach study skills to junior high students. (MKM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Junior High Schools, Language Patterns, Parent Participation
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Marwit, Samuel J.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Age Differences, Blacks, Elementary School Students, Grammar
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Bridgeland, William M. – College Student Journal, 1977
The third person singular pronouns are either neuter or sex linked even in situations where they should be neutral. When the sex is unknown then a substitute, for example "heesh" should be used. The present paper examines several of these awkward words and makes recommendations for substitutes. (Author)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Models
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Lieberman, Philip – Journal of Phonetics, 1976
Several traditional phonetic theories are explained and discussed. It is asserted that recent advances in knowledge of speech production and speech perception show that these theories are descriptively inadequate and that physiologic principles may instead structure phonetic feature theories. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns
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Welkowitz, Joan; And Others – Child Development, 1976
Tests the hypothesis that the extent to which the durations of pauses (silences within the utterances of a single speaker) and switching pauses (silences between the utterances of 2 speakers) in the speech of children in conversation become similar (i.e., exhibit conversational congruence) is positively related to age. (BRT)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Psychology, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition
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Farwell, C. B. – Human Development, 1975
The language spoken to young children is described and shown to constitute a special speech style. (GO)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Early Childhood Education, Grammar
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Petrey, Sandy – Cognition, 1977
Endel Tulving's distinction between "episodic" and "semantic" memory defines age differences in word association norms more comprehensively than the usual syntactic classifications. As subjects mature the principal development is an episodic-semantic shift. Young children associate primarily with the stimulus' perceived…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
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Geissal, Mary Ann; Knafle, June D. – Reading Teacher, 1977
Points out that the linguistic rules of one's dialect determine what one hears and that items on tests of auditory discrimination may prove difficult for adults and nearly impossible for children. (JM)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Tests, Black Dialects, Elementary Education
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Close, R. A. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1977
Verb patterns are arranged into the five following groups: Intransitive, intensive, monotransitive, ditransitive, and complex transitive. Each type is explained and illustrated. (CHK)
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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Bourdieu, Pierre – Langue Francaise, 1977
A sociological critique of language which substitutes the notion of acceptability for grammaticallity; the analogy of symbolic force for communication; the question of the value and power of discourse for meaning; and "symbolic capital," inseparable from the social position of the interlocuter, for purely linguistic competence. (Text is in…
Descriptors: Language, Language Patterns, Language Role, Linguistic Theory
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Sinsabaugh, Barbara A.; Fox, Robert Allen – Communication Monographs, 1986
Critically reevaluates data obtained using the Spoonerisms of Laboratory Induced Predisposition (SLIP) paradigm. Discusses how the results from three studies that utilized this experimental technique differed from those in the original study. Suggests that many of the speech errors detected result from confusion rather from the elicitation of true…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Problems, Language Patterns
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