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Download full textSnow, David – 1982
The psychological process of segmenting sentences into meaningful units or "chunks" is believed to be an important aspect of text comprehension processes. The most characteristic type of parsing task elicits perceptions of text structure indirectly by asking individuals to make judgments about pause placement in sentences. In four…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Children, Elementary Education
