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Potts, George R. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Paper based on a dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology at Indiana University. Research performed while the author had a Public Health Service terminal year fellowship; research also supported in part by a Public Health Service grant to Dr. Frank Restle. (VM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Information Processing, Information Storage
Stanners, Robert F.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Information Processing, Language Research
Mistler-Lachman, Janet L. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Based on results reported in a doctoral dissertation completed at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Investigation carried out while the author held a National Institutes of Mental Health Predoctoral Research Fellowship. (VM)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Deep Structure
Powers, James E.; Gowie, Cheryl J. – 1975
This study investigated children's performance with the passive-transformation when both the mode of presentation and the mode of response were verbal. The study was also designed to provide a framework for the examination of theoretical issues regarding strategies in speech perception. Kindergarten and first-grade children individually heard 6…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Elementary School Students, Information Processing
Jackendoff, Ray S. – 1972
The author finds Katz and Postal's 1964 generative semantic theories concerning the organization of grammar incorrect and proposes an interpretive approach to semantics in which syntactic structures are given interpretations by an autonomous semantic component. The research reported leads the author to describe a generative grammar consisting of…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Grammar
Kaplan, Ronald M. – 1971
This paper describes the notation and underlying organization of an augmented, recursive-transition network grammar and illustrates how such a grammar is a natural medium for expressing and explaining a wide variety of facts about the psychological processes of sentence comprehension. A general discussion of transformational grammar and…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs
Lamendella, John T. – 1973
While agreeing with psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic theories that suggest that innate language-related cognitive structures are the basis of language development, the author seeks to establish what it is that is innate and what is meant by innateness in the first place. The author considers the claims of psychological relevance made on behalf…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure
Rivers, Wilga M. – 1972
Research into the psychology of perception can uncover important discoveries for more efficient learning. There must be increased understanding of the processing of input and the pre-processing of output for improved language instruction. Educators must at the present time be extremely wary of basing what they do in the foreign-language classroom…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure