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Peer reviewedEdwards, V. K. – Language and Speech, 1978
Establishes a significant correlation between the extent of Creole language interference and performance on a British reading comprehension test. Suggests that Creole affects the efficiency of understanding British English. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialects, Foreign Countries, Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedHanson, Vicki L.; Wilkenfeld, Deborah – Language and Speech, 1985
Describes a study that tested deaf and hearing readers' sensitivity to the morphological structure of English words by using a lexical decision (word/non-word classification) task. Results indicate that despite prelingual and profound hearing impairment, it is possible to acquire a sensitivity to the morphophonological structure of English words.…
Descriptors: College Students, Deafness, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedTikofsky, Ronald S.; Reiff, Donald G. – Language and Speech, 1970
Attempts to determine whether college students show general agreement and consistency over time in their preferences for and judgments of languge strings. (MB)
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Decision Making
Peer reviewedSpencer, N. J.; Wollman, Neil – Language and Speech, 1980
Reports on research that (1) suggests that phonetically ambiguous pairs (ice cream/I scream) have been used inaccurately to illustrate contextual effects in word segmentation, (2) supports unitary rather than exhaustive processing, and (3) supports the use of the concepts of word frequency and listener expectations instead of top-down, multiple…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Context Clues, Expectation, Language Processing
