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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
Crain, Stephen; Coker, Pamela L. – 1978
This research examines how semantic information influences syntactic parsing decisions during sentence processing. In the first experiment, subjects were presented lexical strings having syntactically identical surface structures but with two possible underlying structures: "The children taught by the Berlitz method," and "The…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Tyler, Lorraine; Marslen-Wilson, William – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
A presentation of an experiment testing the claim that on-line syntactic processing is autonomous and not affected by semantic content. Results suggested that before the clause boundary is reached, syntactic decisions can be influenced by prior semantic context. An appendix containing numerous examples of clauses and probe words is included. (AMH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Language Processing, Language Research
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Chernov, Ghelly V. – Language and Speech, 1979
Suggests that cumulative dynamic analysis of the semantic structure of the incoming message is subconsciously performed by interpreters. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Research, Deep Structure, Interpreters
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Wolff, Dieter – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
Discusses a preliminary and sketchy hypothesis of second language comprehension based on empirical investigations into strategies and processes specific to second language comprehension. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Deep Structure, Language Processing
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Greenfield, Patricia M.; Dent, Cathy H. – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Contrasts the syntactic view of forward and backward deletion of base structure elements with the idea that pragmatic factors of situational redundancy and perceptual grouping account for conjunction reduction in children. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Conjunctions, Deep Structure
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Elerick, Charles – 1979
This research is based on the assumption that a Spanish/English bilingual is aware of the phonological and semantic relatedness of the many hundreds of pairs of transparently cognate items in the two languages. This awareness is linguistically significant in that it is reflected in the internalized grammar of the bilingual. The bilingual speaker…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure
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Cutler, Anne; Swinney, David A. – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Studies analyzing children's response time to detect word targets revealed that six-year-olds and younger children generally did not show the response time advantage for accented target words which adult listeners show, providing support for the argument that the processing advantage for accented words reflects the semantic role of accent as an…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Correlation, Deep Structure
McClure, Erica; Mason, Jana – 1979
To investigate the strategies children use in comprehending written stories, third, sixth, and ninth grade students were given scrambled six-sentence stories and asked to reorder them. Three versions of each of six stories were created. The first version was the canonical form of the story predicted by story grammar rules; the second version began…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Cooper, William E., Ed.; Walker, Edward C. T., Ed. – 1979
The chapters in this volume represent a type of current psycholinguistic research that focuses both on the nature of human information processing and the coding of linguistic structure. The chapters and authors are as follows: (1) "The Wherefores and Therefores of the Competence-Performance Distinction," by V. Valian; (2) "Levels of Processing and…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Intonation, Language Acquisition, Language Processing