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Martinez, Miriam; Harmon, Janis M. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2012
The major research question was: How do pictures and texts function in developing literary elements in picturebooks for younger readers and picturebooks for older readers? We examined 30 picturebooks for younger readers and 30 picturebooks for older readers to determine how pictures and text work to develop plot, character, setting, and mood.…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Layout (Publications), Reader Text Relationship, Time
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McKoon, Gail; Ratcliff, Roger – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
A reduced relative-main clause ambiguity occurs in sentences that begin with reduced relative clauses, as in "The hangman executed by the government was convicted of treason." This ambiguity has often been the focus of research designed to investigate the processes by which syntactic structures are built during sentence comprehension.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Sentences, Syntax, Literary Devices