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Carroll, John M. – Language and Speech, 1979
Two experiments showed that functional completeness--the explicit propositional surface realization of deep-structure clause relations--isolated effective and integral comprehension units, which definitions of comprehension units couched in levels of syntactic structure failed to do. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deep Structure, Language Processing, Language Research