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Gerver, David – Meta, 1975
Reviews recent research on simultaneous interpretation and discusses a psycholinguistic model as one way of describing certain aspects of the interpreter's on-the-job performance. (AM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Interpreters
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Ehri, Linnea C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Fifth graders were asked to learn 32 syntactically varied semantically unrelated sentences containing combinations of agentive, objective, and instrumental case relations. Results were discussed in terms of ways to store sentences. (ST)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Elementary School Students, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Gamlin, Peter J. – Language and Speech, 1971
Examines the effects of short term memory (STM) capacity, meaningfulness of stimuli, and age upon listeners' structuring of sentences. Results show that the interaction between STM capacity and meaningfulness (1) approached significance when data were collapsed over both age levels, and (2) was significant for one age level. Tables and references.…
Descriptors: Age, Ambiguity, Deep Structure, Linguistic Competence
Honeck, Richard P. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Research conducted at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. (VM)
Descriptors: Classification, Deep Structure, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance
Weisberg, Robert W. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Parts of this paper were presented at the Psychonomic Society Convention, 1969. (VM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Information Storage, Language Research, Learning Theories
Layton, Pamela; Simpson, Adrian J. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
Subjects read sets of active or passive sentences, and an active or passive question was asked about one. Errors were compared. Results suggest that surface form of a single sentence is retained; surface and deep structures are retained for two, and only deep structures of four and eight sentences. (CHK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Memory, Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension
Ehri, Linnea C. – 1971
This investigation was intended to study the effects of some linguistic variables on child and adult memories for sentences when recall was prompted by nouns embedded in the sentences. Its purpose was to examine for developmental differences in sentence processing systems expected by psycholinguistic theory and research. A group of 64 subjects,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, Child Language, Deep Structure
Iannucci, David; Dodd, David – 1975
This paper describes and gives the results of a psycholinguistic experiment investigating the impact of certain surface syntactic structures on the perception and memory of language. The basic assumption is that the content of an utterance must be its most salient aspect in memory. The for of an utterance, its surface grammar and phonology, must…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Research, Linguistics
Chapin, Paul G. – 1970
This review of Bever's psycholinguistics survey is for the most part favorable. Commentary is centered on sections 1, 2, 4, and 6 of the report. The survey's first part is judged significant in that Wundt's pioneering work in psycholinguistics is discussed. The second section, on grammar as a psychological process, is found obscure in its…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computational Linguistics, Deep Structure, Grammar
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
Lado, Robert; And Others – 1971
The experiments discussed in this report are designed to explore the relationship between language and thought and implications for foreign language learning. Three basic issues are considered: whether or not thought and language are sufficiently distinct to require separate attention and planning as distinct factors in language teaching; the role…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Error Patterns, Experiments
Crothers, Edward J. – 1971
This report presents a summary of the research designed to develop a psycholinguistics of comprehension and memory for meaningful written prose paragraphs. The approach departs from most previous ones by seeking to formulate an explicit theory, instead of relying on informal qualitative judgments as to paragraph structure, the scoring of data, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Connected Discourse, Deep Structure
Schank, Roger C.; Wilks, Yorick – 1973
There is a need for a new kind of linguistic theory which, while being concerned with both generation and analysis, must include the roles of memory, non-linguistic knowledge, and inference. The role of logic is diminished according to such a theory because inference has no real logical content. Meaning must be studied with respect to the actual…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Deep Structure