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Peer reviewedLevin, Harry; Garrett, Peter – Language in Society, 1990
Examines and tests the hypothesis that left-branching (LB) sentences are judged to be more formal than right-branching (RB), and that center-branching (CB) sentences would behave like LB. Two studies involving university students are described in which LB, RB, and CB sentence structure formality were judged. (17 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing
