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Gallagher, Joseph W. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
This study examined the influence of semantic consistency (meaningfulness) and anomaly on the learning of three types of syntactic pairs. The results showed that meaningful pairs are learned with fewer errors than anomalous pairs. (Author)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Language Acquisition, Semantics, Syntax
Fischler, Ira; Bloom, Paul A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Experiments were conducted to determine the effects of sentence contexts on word recognition and reading. The questions of whether context is predominantly facilitating or inhibiting and how automatic the influence of contexts is on word retrieval were investigated. (SW)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Language Processing, Language Research
Boettcher, Judith A. – 1978
When two adults read eleven paragraphs, assigned a meaning to the target word in each paragrah, and answered questions about their strategies for dealing with the difficult/unknown words, they exhibited four strategies, outside of actual definition, that skilled readers use to deal with such words. The most often used strategy is paragraph…
Descriptors: Adults, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Postsecondary Education
