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Direct linkHannon, Brenda; Daneman, Meredyth – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
We used Barton and Sanford's (1993) anomaly detection task to investigate text processing differences between skilled and less-skilled readers. The results of 2 experiments showed that many readers had the tendency to process text in a shallow or incomplete manner, frequently failing to detect anomalous nouns or noun phrases (NPs) in text such as…
Descriptors: Semantics, Reading Processes, Nouns, Reading Comprehension
Daneman, Meredyth; Hannon, Brenda; Burton, Christine – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
After reading text such as Amanda was bouncing all over because she had taken too many tranquilizing sedatives in one day, young adult readers frequently fail to report that they noticed the anomalous noun phrase (NP). Although young readers of all skill levels are susceptible to this kind of shallow semantic processing, less-skilled readers are…
Descriptors: Semantics, Young Adults, Nouns, Eye Movements
