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Townsend, David J.; Bever, Thomas G. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
In two experiments, subjects were interrupted while listening to a two-clause sentence just before the last word of either the initial clause or the final clause. The two experiments together suggest that interclause semantic relations affect the immediate processing of clauses. (Author/EJS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conjunctions, Language Processing, Language Research
Peer reviewedTownsend, David J.; Ravelo, Norma – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Seeks to determine whether young children use different strategies than do adults in clausal processing. Subjects were 20 three year olds, 30 four year olds, 20 five year olds, and 30 undergraduate students. (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Higher Education, Language Processing
Townsend, David J. – 1977
Recent work in syntactic theory has revealed that word order is more constrained in subordinate clauses, particularly nonasserted clauses, than in main clauses (Ross, 1973; Hooper & Thompson, 1973). On the other hand, main clauses are restricted in the extent to which they allow pronominalization and verb phrase deletion (Lakoff, 1968). These…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
