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Yekovich, Frank R.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Two experiments examined the role of presupposed (or old) and focal (or new) information in integrating sentences, by measuring comprehension time for various combinations of presupposed and focal information. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language Processing, Language Research
Peer reviewedClark, Herbert H.; Begun, Jeffrey S. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comprehension, Experiments
Download full textBjurlof, Thomas; Jamieson, Dale – 1978
It has long been said that there are an infinite number of English sentences. "This is the cat that caught the rat" is an Enqlish sentence. So is "This is the cat that caught the rat that stole the cheese.""This is the cat with white paws that caught the rat that stole the cheese" is unobjectionable as well. Since a…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deep Structure, English, Grammar
Scholes, Robert J.; And Others – 1976
Human beings who have been forced to acquire language through non-auditory modalities characteristically display an impoverished syntactic system. I.M. Schlessinger (1970) has shown, for example, that users of sign language have difficulty in communicating syntactic relations such as "subject of main verb,""object of the verb," and "indirect…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Form Classes (Languages), Hearing Impairments, Language Patterns
Venditti, Jennifer J., Ed. – Working Papers in Linguistics, 1994
The collection of papers on linguistic experiments includes: "Discourse Functions of Pitch Range in Spontaneous and Read Speech" (Gayle M. Ayers); "When Is a Syllable Not a Syllable?" (Mary E. Beckman); "The Relationship between Syntactic and Semantic Processes in Sentence Comprehension" (Julie E. Boland); "The Influence of Orthography and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis
