Identifying Linguistic Competence What Linguistic Competence Consists in

Linguistic Competence and Psychopathology: Construction of a Test of Linguistic Competence

A battery of tests for measuring linguistic competence has been constructed. The battery consists often subtests. After validation and initial trial the tests were modified and then administered in two tryouts to schizophrenic patients and normal subjects. Test retest reliability was established in both patients and normals. In the patient group picture arrangement (story) and definitions subte...

Development of Linguistic Competence in Bilingual Children

The cognitive and linguistic processes involved in the acquisition and use of two languages are systematically different from those processes engaged in monolingual language use, leading to detectable changes in language and cognitive outcomes for bilinguals. The present article describes these differences and offers speculation on possible mechanisms. Measures of linguistic proficiency and pro...

Correlation of Linguistic Competence with Psychopathology

The present study was carried out to test our hypothesis that linguistic competence may importantly determine the manifest symptomatology as well as type of schizophrenia and neurosis. A test of linguistic competence constructed by us after two tryouts and consisting of eight subtests, namely colour naming, naming filial relationships and household objects, TAT (mean lengh of utterance and tota...

The Evolution of Compositionality Linguistic Competence Primary

Developing Intercultural Competence with Linguistic Landscape & M-learning

This paper discusses a basic scenario of m-learning activities for a situated in-the-field examination of cultural diversity with the Linguistic Landscape approach, i.e. a systematic examination of written displays of minority languages in the public space. Enabling learners to participate in content exchange via the Web 2.0 paradigm, where learners act both as both media consumers and media cr...