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Peer reviewedMills, John; Hemsley, Gordon – Language and Speech, 1976
Shows how subjects' varying levels of academic achievement influenced their judgments of the grammatical acceptability of simple sentences, suggesting that differing levels of deep structure accompany differing levels of education. (RL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Deep Structure, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedGarnham, A. – Language and Speech, 1987
Investigates the availability of surface representations for the interpretation of verb-phrase ellipsis. Results show that an elliptical verb phrase is most easily interpreted if its antecedent is in the immediately preceding sentence and that this can not be explained in terms of the unnaturalness of the passages with distant antecedents. (MM)
Descriptors: Encoding (Psychology), Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research
