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Zoltowski, Carla B.; And Others – 1992
This paper describes how a constraint dependency grammar (CDG) parser performs a syntactic analysis of a single sentence (as part of a speech recognition system). The paper extends an existing CDG (developed by H. Maruyama) to process a lattice or graph of sentence hypotheses instead of separate text strings. The paper also describes how the CDG…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Comprehension, Language Processing, Language Role
Hample, Dale; Dallinger, Judith M. – 1984
A study explored the degree to which people can capture the meaning of logical terms, using mental imagery. It was then hypothesized that: (1) subjects generally would fail to express logical relationships accurately, and (2) abstract images would be more difficult to capture than would concrete ones. Subjects, 25 college students, were asked to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Communication Research, Comprehension, Higher Education
Read, Walter; And Others – 1988
A discussion of the application of artificial intelligence to natural language processing looks at several problems in language comprehension, involving semantic ambiguity, anaphoric reference, and metonymy. Examples of these problems are cited, and the importance of the computational approach in analyzing them is explained. The approach applies…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Artificial Intelligence, Comprehension, Epistemology
Rumelhart, David E. – 1988
A discussion of the connectionist approach to language looks at the nature of language, language processing, and language acquisition. Language processing is seen as a means of satisfying the linguistic constraints of comprehension and production, and is also viewed as a process that operates with other aspects of cognition and involves mutually…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research
End, Laurel J. – 1984
Theoreticians have been asking for a long time what processes are involved in comprehension of figurative language, but psycholinguists have only recently addressed this question. One specific type of figurative expression, the metaphor, has been the focus of much recent research, in part because it promises to contribute much to the understanding…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Diachronic Linguistics, Figurative Language, Language Processing
Strage, Amy; And Others – 1979
Children's ability to understand the implied messages in indirect speech was investigated using a role play elicitation task. Subjects were asked to complete story endings using puppets for several scenerios involving a mother and her four children. In each of the stories the mother gives an indirect directive which is supposed to get the children…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Comprehension, Language Processing
Smith, Sharon L.; And Others – 1979
The study of schema theory as part of the inquiry into the nature of language comprehension has drawn attention to the reader's central role in the construction of text-guided meaning. Contemporary schema theory represnts a major step in the effort to move away from a reductionist view of reading comprehension. Specifically, it focuses on wbat…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Higher Education, Language Processing, Language Research
Coker, Pamela L.; Crain, Stephen – 1978
This research characterizes how the mental lexicon functions during sentence processing. In sentence processing, access of meaning is seen to be dependent on interaction between syntactic and semantic information within the sentence. It had been previously thought that meaning had been located in an independent mental lexicon. Three experiments…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Context Clues
Burke, Deborah; And Others – 1983
Two divergent views of linguistic ability in adulthood currently exist. One view maintains that verbal ability is preserved in old age, while the other view maintains that verbal ability declines, especially comprehension. To analyze the effects of semantic priming during sentence processing by 30 younger adults (mean age, 25 years) and 30 older…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Mandel, Rhonda G.; Johnson, Nancy S. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Examines the role of organization in adults' processing of stories. Canonical stories were better recalled than noncanonical stories by all three age groups (young, middle-aged, and old adults), and a variety of measures indicated that older adults' recall was both quantitatively and qualitatively similar to that of young adults. (SL)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Welch, Alicia J.; Maxon, Antonia B. – 1983
The paper examines ways in which language complexity of the stimulus and language ability of the receivers may influence learning via television for hearing impaired and hearing children. Research is reviewed on the impact of language abstraction on learning from television, and findings from paired associate learning trials are cited to suggest…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Comprehension, Hearing Impairments
Brooks, Larry W.; Dansereau, Donald F. – 1981
Previous research conducted from a schema theory perspective has neglected those instances where the reader is confronted with unfamiliar text. This issue is addressed, and initial results on training students to acquire and use form schema in processing relatively unfamiliar descriptive prose are presented. Thirty-two college students were…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Knowledge Level
Johnsen, Birgitta – 1985
A study of eight adult chronic aphasic patients' comprehension of sentences and pictures in which comparisons of time and space were crucial was designed to assess A. R. Luria's approach to designing comprehension test tasks. The investigation required patients, with lesions of varying size and location, to determine whether a sentence expressing…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Comprehension, Language Processing
Perry, Barbara; And Others – 1980
The purpose of the study was to investigate children's understanding of "before" and "after" in temporal directions, in temporal questions, and in pictorial events through the use of three interview methods. The subjects for the study were 62 children, ranging in age from 40 to 80 months, enrolled in a half-day, private nursery/kindergarten…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Form Classes (Languages), Function Words
Gaies, Stephen J. – 1982
Research suggests that interaction between native speakers (NSs) and second language learners (non-native speakers) (NNSs) is characteristically different from speech between NSs, and that it is the modified nature of NS-NNS interaction which provides learners with optimal input. A study was undertaken to determine whether input and interactional…
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
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