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Anderson, Catherine; Carlson, Katy – Language and Speech, 2010
A pair of speaking and listening studies investigated the prosody of sentences with temporary Object/Clause and Late/Early Closure ambiguities. Speakers reliably produced prosodic cues that allowed listeners to disambiguate Late/Early Closure sentences, but only infrequently produced prosody that disambiguated Object/Clause sentences, as shown by…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Syntax, Prediction
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Thomas, Hugh B. G.; Huff, Francis J. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Information Processing, Models
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Abbeduto, Leonard – Language and Speech, 1985
The role of syntactic/semantic structure in the motor programing of speech by five-year-olds, eight-year-olds, and adults was investigated. Repetition durations were found to be shorter for simple than for complex sentences at all ages. However, linguistic complexity affected durational variability only for adults. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition