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Pooja Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In this dissertation, I address two outstanding questions regarding how linguistic and extra-linguistic information are brought together in the interpretation of language situated within a discourse. The first part of this dissertation experimentally addresses how alternatives invoked by sentences containing the focus-sensitive operator 'only' are…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Attitudes, Language Processing
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Florit, Elena; Cain, Kate – Educational Psychology Review, 2011
We present a meta-analysis to test the validity of the Simple View of Reading Gough & Tunmer ("Remedial and Special Education," 7:6-10, "1986") for beginner readers of English and other, more transparent, orthographies. Our meta-analytic approach established that the relative influence of decoding and linguistic comprehension on reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Early Reading, Reading Instruction