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Peer reviewedAnd Others; Bradac, James J. – Language and Speech, 1977
Reports on two studies exploring the contrast effects in judgments of messages exhibiting high or low lexical and syntactic diversity. Suggests that listeners are sensitive to variations in lexical diversity but not syntactic diversity. (RL)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Language Research
