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Russo, Lisa L. – 1977
An experiment was conducted to investigate the hypothesis that English cliches reflect sex-specific styles of speech and that sex-specificity of expressions is related to differential usage by male and female speakers. Hypotheses were derived from Tyler's claims that the "neutral sphere" is infused by the male style, rendering it an inhibiting…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Females, Idioms, Language Patterns
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Anderson, Tommy R. – TESOL Quarterly, 1968
The initial stage of second language learning usually aims to develop the ability to converse. This conversational ability is, however, rarely the ultimate object of second language instruction. The student may want access to the literature of the culture of the second language, or to get an education in it. For these reasons, interest shifts…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, English, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
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Wardhaugh, Ronald – Reading Teacher, 1968
Three principles are integral to any reading theory which provides reading teachers and researchers with the linguistic explanatory power required by linguistic theory. A clear understanding of language is dependent on the knowledge of what language is and how it works. There is an important distinction between competence and performance; most…
Descriptors: Dialects, Figurative Language, Graphemes, Language Patterns
Crymes, Ruth – 1968
Substitutes in English (such as "he,""she,""it,""one,""do so,""thus,""there," and "such") participate in an intricate network of systems. This study aims to identify those English substitutes which are words or word sequences and to describe their workings in some of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar
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Isaacs, Sallie – English Journal, 1968
Linguistic criticism not only shows students the usefulness of grammar but also improves their comprehension of literature. For instance, a study of stress, pitch, and juncture in E. E. Cummings'"anyone lived in a pretty how town" adds meaning to the poem. Also helpful is an analysis of Cummings' tagmemic method of substitution slot-filling--use…
Descriptors: Grammar, Intonation, Language, Language Patterns
Arntson, Paul H.; And Others – 1977
The two studies of predisposition toward verbal behavior (PVB) reported in this paper examined the behavior of interactants who have dissimilar verbal predispositions in task-oriented discussions. In the first study, 20 groups of three members each were given an interpersonal task that involved reaching a consensus. In the second study, 17 pairs…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Group Behavior, Interaction, Interpersonal Competence
Waterman, Margaret – 1975
Answers to three of the questions used in gathering material for the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) are analyzed in this paper. The data was collected state by state, and the number studied in each state was based on the 1960 population figures and known patterns of settlements and migrations. In the first question, the informants…
Descriptors: Idioms, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Variation
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Blansitt, Edward L., Jr. – 1973
In this paper the bitransitive clause is defined in terms of its nuclear tagmemes: subject, predicate, direct object, and indirect object. A semantic characterization is given of the prototype bitransitive clause with a correlation of situational roles and grammatical functions. The nine different dominant orders in bitransitive clauses which were…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns, Language Universals
Cronnell, Bruce – 1970
Recent research has shown that spelling-to-sound correspondences in English are less irregular than has been thought in the past and that a large percentage of irregularities consists of irregularly spelled words which recur in various derived and compound words. In order to determine the degree to which irregularities occur in multiple-derived…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Dictionaries, Educational Research, Graphemes
Filipovic, Rudolf, Ed. – 1969
The first volume in this series on Serbo-Croatian-English contrastive analysis contains four articles. They are: "Contrasting via Translation: Formal Correspondence vs. Translation Equivalence," by Vladimir Ivir; "Approach to Contrastive Analysis," by Leonardo Spalatin; and "The Choice of the Corpus for the Contrastive Analysis of Serbo-Croatian…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns
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Rodriguez-Brown, Flora V. – 1976
Studied were some cognitive aspects of the language development of a 2-year-old Puerto Rican boy who had been on the U.S. mainland 1 month. A Neo-Piagetian approach (developed by K. Witz and J. Easley) was used to study: language behavior as being embedded in more complex, unified systems; productivity of different structures and language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Ethnic Groups, Exceptional Child Research
Rubin, Rosalyn; And Others – 1975
Little is known about grammatical sophistication in the written language of school-age children. This study provides normative data on the occurrence of different complexity levels of major grammatical parameters in written compositions of nine-year-old children. These parameters include productivity of language, correctness of language usage, the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Grammar, Intermediate Grades, Language Patterns
Tarone, Elaine – 1976
This paper describes a preliminary study which focuses on the syllable structure of interlanguage and begins to identify some of the processes which shape that interlanguage. Adults learning English as a second language in a formal classroom situation were recorded as they described a series of pictures in English. Two subjects were native…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interference (Language), Interlanguage, Language Patterns
Ginn, Doris O. – 1975
It is argued in this paper that teachers must develop an awareness of the historical implications of the black dialect. A sample in-class composition written in black dialect is quoted in its entirety and analyzed, and a personal writing approach is described. The first part of the approach deals with structure, and a linguistic method is used for…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black Education, Black Students
James, Deborah – 1973
This paper examines semantic constraints governing the occurrence of interjections with various other types of grammatical phenomena. Four interjections, "oh,""ah,""say," and "well," which typically occur embedded in sentences, are discussed in terms of their semantic properties and possible contexts. It is…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Expressive Language, Grammar, Idioms
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