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Peer reviewedEvans, Ronald V. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Grade 12, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Secondary School Students
Peer reviewedGlaserfeld, Ernst von – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1970
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Computational Linguistics, Grammar, Readability
Peer reviewedIrwin, Judith Westphal – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1979
The effects of manipulating the connective words "because" and "after" on fifth graders' reading comprehension was examined. The results provide no support for the notion that sentence length is related to comprehensibility or that implicit connectives are more difficult to comprehend. (HOD)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Elementary Education, Function Words, Grade 5
Peer reviewedSmith, William L. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Presents results from an experiment designed to extend the study of the relationship between the syntactic sophistication of the student and the material being read. (TO)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Language Acquisition, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedSchwantes, Frederick M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1991
Investigates the degree to which children and adult readers use semantic and syntactic information sources to increase speed of word recognition and to increase speed of determining sentence meaningfulness. Finds three developmental differences in the speed of analyzing these sentences for words/nonwords versus meaningfulness/nonmeaningfulness.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 6, Higher Education
