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Some Assumptions About Second Language Text Comprehension.

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Wolff, Dieter – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987

Discusses a preliminary and sketchy hypothesis of second language comprehension based on empirical investigations into strategies and processes specific to second language comprehension. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Deep Structure, Language Processing

Subject and Agent in Emerging Grammars: Evidence for a Change in Children's Biases.

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Matthei, Edward H. – Journal of Child Language, 1987

Two experiments indicating that children's linguistic generalizational biases change from a semantically-based system to a syntactical-structural system provide evidence for a semantic-relational bias in children's early grammars and support the notion that children's generalizational biases shift from a semantic-relational basis to a…

Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Language Acquisition