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Corlatescu, Dragos-Georgian; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Reading comprehension is key to knowledge acquisition and to reinforcing memory for previous information. While reading, a mental representation is constructed in the reader's mind. The mental model comprises the words in the text, the relations between the words, and inferences linking to concepts in prior knowledge. The automated model of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Memory, Inferences, Syntax
Nicula, Bogdan; Dascalu, Mihai; Newton, Natalie; Orcutt, Ellen; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
The ability to automatically assess the quality of paraphrases can be very useful for facilitating literacy skills and providing timely feedback to learners. Our aim is twofold: a) to automatically evaluate the quality of paraphrases across four dimensions: lexical similarity, syntactic similarity, semantic similarity and paraphrase quality, and…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Networks, Semantics, Feedback (Response)
Ruthe Foushee; Dan Byrne; Marisa Casillas; Susan Goldin-Meadow – Grantee Submission, 2022
Linguistic alignment--the contingent reuse of our interlocutors' language at all levels of linguistic structure--pervades human dialogue. Here, we design unique measures to capture the degree of linguistic alignment between interlocutors' linguistic representations at three levels of structure: lexical, syntactic, and semantic. We track these…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Vocabulary Skills, Models
Crossley, Scott; Barnes, Tiffany; Lynch, Collin; McNamara, Danielle S. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
This study takes a novel approach toward understanding success in a math course by examining the linguistic features and affect of students' language production within a blended (with both on-line and traditional face to face instruction) undergraduate course (n=158) on discrete mathematics. Three linear effects models were compared: (a) a…
Descriptors: Success, Mathematics Instruction, Language Usage, Blended Learning
Prideaux, Gary D. – 1975
This paper argues that we are moving toward a more experimental approach to language, one which is characterized less by introspective judgments and more by empirical evidence. The first section of the paper is a general discussion of the directions linguistic theories are taking. The second section discusses some of the fundamental problems…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
Bierschenk, Inger – 1989
This paper proposes to give an evolutionary background to a method developed for the analysis of language seen as expression of intention and morality--the method is named "Perspective Text Analysis." The paper argues that this name indicates that beyond the physical dimension of a text there is a metaphysical one, which can be…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Language Role
Lovejoy, Kim Brian; Lance, Donald M. – 1988
Combining linguistics and composition studies, this paper (part 1 of a two-part article) proposes a model for the analysis of information management and cohesion in written discourse. It defines concepts of discourse analysis--specifically information management, syntax, semantic reference, lexicon, cohesion, and intonation, with examples taken…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Intonation, Language Research
Wolfe, Frank – 1978
In translating perception into written language, a child must learn an encoding process which is a continuation of the process of improving sensing of the world around him or her. To verbalize an object (a perception) we use frames which name a referent, locate the referent in space and time, identify its appearance and behavior, and define terms…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Intermediate Grades
Schwartz, Robert M. – 1977
Two experiments are presented to clarify the relationships among different information codes available to a fluent reader and the utilization of syntactic and semantic knowledge to facilitate word identification. Use of context is measured with a word boundary task on passages with either coherent or random organization. Orthographic pattern and…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Higher Education, Models, Orthographic Symbols
Baker, William J.; Prideaux, Gary D. – 1973
Differences between formal constraints on a generative grammar and concepts of efficiency in transforming sentences provide different expectations regarding performance measures if the grammar is taken as a psychologically real model. To contrast these views, subjects were given sentences varying in voice, mood, and modality and asked to transform…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Generative Grammar, Models
Silva, Clare M.; Zwicky, Arnold M. – 1973
The distinction between formal and casual English as reflected in the lexicon, in phonology, and in syntax is studied. Formality is treated as separate from other categorizations of language such as geographical origin of the speaker, social class of the participants, or specific context of discourse. The study was restricted mainly to the use of…
Descriptors: Classification, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Styles
Stacks, Don W.; McMahan, Eva M. – 1983
In a study conducted to examine the impact of language choice on cognitive complexity (the number of constructs in a person's interpersonal construct system), 93 undergraduate students completed a role category questionnaire that asked each subject to write a description of two people they knew. In one case that description was to be of a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Descriptive Writing, Higher Education
Toler, Sue Anne; Bankson, Nicholas W. – 1975
A study was conducted to determine the efficacy of utilizing Leach's interrogation model as a means for analyzing question types used by mothers and their children's responses to various interrogative forms. Data analyzed consisted of language samples obtained from three preschool children and their mothers during mother-child interactions plus…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Usage
Gorrell, Paul; Chen, Qiming – 1988
Issues in syntactic processing, that aspect of the human sentence comprehension mechanism that recovers a syntactic structure for a given word string, are discussed. In particular, two structural ambiguities in Mandarin Chinese are examined and their successful parsing within the framework of minimal parsing models is discussed. Recent work…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Comparative Analysis, English, Language Processing
O'Donnell, Roy C. – 1976
Stella Center's belief in the basic importance of grammatical structure as a factor in reading comprehension substantiated the author's theory that the ability to comprehend syntactic structure is positively correlated with the ability to comprehend meaning. Original instruments devised to test this hypothesis included a test which utilized…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Cues, Decoding (Reading), Educational Theories
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