Paul Fletcher

List of John Benjamins publications for which Paul Fletcher plays a role.

Book series

Trends in Language Acquisition Research (TiLAR)

Edited by Shanley E.M. Allen and Evan Kidd

ISSN 1569-0644

Title

Developmental Theory and Language Disorders

Edited by Paul Fletcher and Jon F. Miller

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 4] 2005. x, 217 pp.

Subjects Language acquisition | Language disorders & speech pathology | Psycholinguistics

Articles (4) | Order by:

Fletcher, Paul, Stephanie Stokes and Anita Wong 2005 Constructions and language development: Implications for language impairment Developmental Theory and Language Disorders, Fletcher, Paul and Jon F. Miller (eds.), pp. 35–51 | Article

Miller, Jon F. and Paul Fletcher 2005 Developmental theory and language disorders: Background issues Developmental Theory and Language Disorders, Fletcher, Paul and Jon F. Miller (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Article

Fletcher, Paul 1980 1. On paraphrase. Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 21–34 | Article

The notion of syntactic paraphrase received formal definition, within standard theory generative transformational models, following the adoption of the Katz-Postal constraint that transformations preserve meaning. This development in the mid-sixties can be traced through Harris's attempts to relate… read more

Fletcher, Paul 1980 5. Paraphrase relationships among clefted sentences. Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 185–201 | Article

Paraphrase relations among defied sentences were examined using the syntactic cohesion between question and answer as an experimental paradigm. It was assumed that paraphrase sets would be defined by the syntactic reflexes of the semantic notion of focus. Subjects were 77 High School seniors and… read more