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Piantini, Miguel A. – Yelmo, 1974
Descriptors: Function Words, Grammar, Language Arts, Sentence Structure
KRAFT, CHARLES H. – 1963
A COMPANION TO THE FIRST TWO VOLUMES OF THE STUDY OF HAUSA SYNTAX, THIS THIRD PART USES NINETEEN SPECIFIC TEXTS TO ACQUAINT THE READER WITH THREE TYPES OF WRITTEN HAUSA--PRINTED NARRATIVE, EXTEMPORE NARRATIVE, AND NEWSPAPER TEXTS. (THE FIRST TWO VOLUMES DEAL WITH STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION WORDS, RESPECTIVELY.) THE ENTIRE CORPUS IS APPROXIMATELY…
Descriptors: Grammar, Hausa, Reading Materials, Sentence Structure
LEVIN, HARRY; WANAT, STANLEY – 1967
THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN READER EFFICIENCY IN PROCESSING SENTENCES AND DIFFERENCES IN THE DEEP STRUCTURE OF THE STIMULUS SENTENCES WERE STUDIED. THE EFFICIENCY OF PROCESSING, AS MEASURED BY THE SUBJECTS' EYE-VOICE SPAN, VARIED WITH CHANGES IN THE DEEP STRUCTURE. COMPARISONS WERE MADE BETWEEN READER PROCESSING OF PAIRS OF SENTENCES IN WHICH THE…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Eye Voice Span, Oral Reading, Responses
Rosenberg, Sheldon – 1968
Ninety-six subjects were assigned randomly to eight groups of 12 subjects. The independent variables were (1) controlled association strength between groups of words within a string (high association [HA] versus low association [LA]), (2) syntactic structure (grammatical [G] versus ungrammatical [U] strings), and (3) instructions (ordered learning…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Grammar, Language Research, Psycholinguistics
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Grosjean, Francois; Lane, Harlan – Cognition, 1977
An analysis of the pauses (holds) in a passage in American Sign Language reveals that sequences of signs are interspersed with holds of different lengths. Long holds appear to indicate the ends of sentences; shorter holds, the break between two conjoined sentences; and the shortest holds, breaks between internal constituents. (Author/MV)
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Sentence Structure, Story Telling
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Kunze, Juergen – Linguistics, 1977
The components of a dependency grammar are described, and some procedures for automatic sentence analysis are given. (HP)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Models
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Allerton, D. J. – Journal of Linguistics, 1978
The results of a survey in which 50 British university students were asked to assess the acceptability of 40 indirect object sentences are analyzed, and some problems inherent in English indirect object constructions are discussed. (DS)
Descriptors: College Students, English, Grammar, Language Usage
Morreale, Margherita – Yelmo, 1976
The opinions of various grammarians and linguists about the correct usage of "adonde" and "a donde" are presented. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Grammar, Language Usage, Phrase Structure
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Bryant, William H. – French Review, 1985
Techniques are outlined for translating the French imperfect subjunctive into English without syntactic awkwardness, based on the approach that the verb form is a logical system regulated by well-defined syntactic rules. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English, French, Sentence Structure
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Wisher, Robert A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
When college students were required to remember a sequence of numbers before reading a sentence displayed at a constant rate and the syntactic structure was known beforehand, their recall of the number sequence was superior. When subjects were timed while reading individual sentences and syntactic structure was known beforehand, reading times…
Descriptors: College Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Retention (Psychology)
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Richek, Margaret Ann – Reading Research Quarterly, 1976
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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Rose, Robert G. – Journal of General Psychology, 1973
To examine the agreement of linguists and non-linguists concerning the acceptability of surface structure, 48 under-graduates classified each of 66 sentences as acceptable or unacceptable while playing different roles. High agreement was confirmed. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistics, Models, Psychology
Beinhauer, Werner – Yelmo, 1973
Descriptors: Adverbs, Grammar, Language Styles, Morphology (Languages)
Prado, Eduardo – Yelmo, 1973
First part of a continued article. (SK)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, Linguistics, Sentence Structure
Bennett, W. A. – Modern Languages, 1973
Examines syntactic difficulties encountered by the student of French in expressions requiring the use of the relative pronouns "qui" and "que". (RL)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Instruction, Pronouns
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