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Dixon, Peter – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1982
Describes three experiments designed to investigate the effect of sentence organization on the comprehension of procedural directions. Ease of comprehension was determined by measuring reading time for two different sentence patterns, while subjects followed instructions to operate an unfamiliar device. Experimental results showed that…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Reading Research
Holmes, V. M. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Descriptors: Adverbs, Cognitive Processes, Experiments, Nouns
Garrod, Simon; Trabasso, Tom – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. (RS)
Descriptors: Information Theory, Laboratory Experiments, Mnemonics, Models
Mehler, Jacques; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
French sentences with a long ambiguous word just before a target phoneme led to faster reaction times than did sentences with a short unambigous word just before the target phoneme. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Processing
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
Levy, Betty Ann – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
Three experiments test the relationship between implicit speech and comprehension processes for meaningful material. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Learning Processes, Memory
