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Peer reviewedLangford, J.; Holmes, V. M. – Cognition, 1979
Two experiments indicated that sentence verification times were significantly longer when a discrepancy between target sentence and context was in the syntactic presupposition, rather than in the assertion. Findings are best explained by a structural hypothesis, not by strategies designed to locate given and new information. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Linguistic Theory
Direct linkKaiser, Elsi; Trueswell, John C. – Cognition, 2004
On-line comprehension studies of flexible word-order languages find that noncanonical ("scrambled") structures induce more difficulty than canonical structures [e.g., Hyona & Hujanen, "Q. J. Exp. Psychol." 50A (1997) 841-858], with this difference being attributed to the structural complexity/infrequency of these forms. However, by presenting…
Descriptors: Syntax, Discourse Modes, Finno Ugric Languages, Language Processing
