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Berndt, Rita Sloan; Caramazza, Alfonso – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1980
Provides redefinition for the syndrome of Broca's aphasia. Advances argument that the neurological explanation should be on separable psychological mechanisms that might be disrupted in isolation from other components of focal brain damages. Neuroanatomical implications are considered within the framework of a "strong localizationist" hypothesis.…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Neurological Impairments, Psychological Evaluation, Reading Difficulties
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Nation, Kate; Snowling, Margaret J. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2000
Using a word order correction paradigm, this study assessed syntactic awareness skills in children with good and poor reading comprehension, matched for age, decoding skill, and nonverbal ability. Poor comprehenders performed less well than normal readers, and the performance of both groups was influenced by the syntactic complexity and semantic…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Metalinguistics, Nonverbal Ability, Reading Ability
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Macaruso, Paul; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
This study tested the comprehension of object-control adjectives in second-grade good and poor readers using both an act-out task and a sentence-picture matching task. Contrary to an earlier study, significant group differences were not found in interpreting object control adjectives with either task. (Contains 20 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Grade 2, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
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Penning, Marge J.; Raphael, Taffy E. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1991
Examines differences in language ability between normally achieving students and learning-disabled students with reading comprehension problems. Poor comprehending students differed from normal achievers for all language measures and in the manner that reader- and text-related variables predicted comprehension. Results supported the positive role…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Learning Disabilities, Multivariate Analysis, Reader Text Relationship
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Smith, Suzanne T.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Examines the source of poor readers' comprehension failures in spoken sentences containing complex syntactic structures. Although research literature indicates that the difficulties poor readers display are usually associated with some aspect of phonological processing, other components of language processing may be involved. (58 references)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Grade 2, Grammar