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Peer reviewedStirling, Lesley; Wales, Roger – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Examines, through two studies, how prosodic information affects syntactic processing in locally ambiguous sentences. The first study dealt with people's judgments of the continuation of locally ambiguous sentence fragments of differing lengths. The second concerned ratings of normality of sentence types with differing contours. (27 references)…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Auditory Stimuli, College Students, English
Peer reviewedWales, M. L. – Language Awareness, 1996
Describes an attempt at an English grammar program for the first year of secondary schooling in Queensland, Australia linked to the grammatical features introduced in the students' second language programs. Outlines the stages of development, including examination of the second language texts and of English course books and deciding on a…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar, Models
