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Direct linkUpadhyay, Sri Siddhi N.; Houghton, Kenneth J.; Klin, Celia M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
After reading, "few of the juniors were accepted," focus is on the students not accepted, the complement set. According to the Presupposition Denial Account, negative quantifiers, such as "few," convey a denial of expectation, or shortfall, which leads to complement set focus. In six experiments, we explored the role of the…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Form Classes (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Natural Language Processing
Download full textFORD, BOYCE L.; LEVIN, HARRY – 1967
THE EFFECTS OF SEMANTIC CONTEXT ON THE VERBAL REACTION TIMES OF CHILDREN READING HOMOGRAPHS WERE STUDIED BY A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF WORD OR LETTER CUES PRECEDING THE HOMOGRAPHS TO BE READ. THE INVESTIGATOR DEVISED TWO EXPERIMENTAL WORDLISTS CONTAINING HOMOGRAPHS PRECEDED BY ONE-WORD, SEMANTICALLY SIMILAR NONHOMOGRAPHS AND TWO CONTROL LISTS…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Processes, Reading Rate, Visual Stimuli
LEVIN, HARRY; TURNER, ELIZABETH ANN – 1966
THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE EFFECTS OF THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF READING MATERIALS ON THE EYE-VOICE SPAN (EVS). THE EYE-VOICE SPAN IS THE DISTANCE THE EYE IS AHEAD OF THE VOICE IN READING ALOUD. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY WAS THAT THE EYE-VOICE SPAN IS NOT A CONSTANT OR FIXED LENGTH REGARDLESS OF THE MATERIAL BEING READ, BUT THAT, AMONG OTHER…
Descriptors: Eye Voice Span, Oral Reading, Participant Characteristics, Reading Development
