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Shillcock, Richard – Language and Speech, 1982
An experiment is reported that uses cross-modal priming to look at the resolution of anaphoric reference. Subjects given a visual lexical decision test simultaneously with an auditorily presented sentence showed selective semantic activation of the pronoun's referent on the basis of the pronoun's lexical properties. This finding is discussed in…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Language Processing, Language Research, Pronouns

Kemper, Susan; Catlin, Jack – Language and Speech, 1979
Two experiments offer clear support for an interactive view of sentence comprehension; semantic factors do interact with syntactic factors. (RL)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Research

Clark, Herbert H.; Begun, Jeffrey S. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comprehension, Experiments

Thomas, Hugh B. G.; Huff, Francis J. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Information Processing, Models