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Holmes, V. M. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Descriptors: Adverbs, Cognitive Processes, Experiments, Nouns
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
Corbett, Albert T.; Dosher, Barbara A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Reading comprehension is an active inferential process. Three experiments are described in which the possibility was examined that highly probable inferences are drawn, even when they are unnecessary for comprehension. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Research, Psycholinguistics
Manelis, Leon – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Three experiments investigated a characteristic of the propositions that underlie sentences. For some of the sentences tested, the same concepts occurred repeatedly across the underlying propositions; for others, concepts were seldom repeated. Repetitions were shown to facilitate sentence processing. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language Research, Memory
Carpenter, Patricia A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974
An experiment is reported which permitted the separate examination of sentence comprehension processes and subsequent sentence memory processes. The similarity between the results of comprehension and recall was discussed in terms of a retrieval process that may be similar in both tasks. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Pezdek, Kathy; Royer, James M. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974
A study was made to assess the effect of comprehension on the recognition of meaning and wording changes with concrete and abstract sentences. The results of the experiment were discussed in light of recent models which propose different storage mechanisms for concrete and abstract sentences. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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
Haberlandt, Karl; Bingham, Geoffrey – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Comprehensibility ratings and sentence-by-sentence reading times of three-sentence narratives (triples) were studied as a function of the coherence of a triple. In both experiments, reading times did not differ for first sentences, but were longer for third sentences of unrelated than for related triples. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Research, Narration
Glucksberg, Sam; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1982
Discusses a sequential, three-stage model of how nonliteral expressions are understood, as proposed in recent linguistic, philosophical, and psychological studies. Testing the model's implication that nonliteral meanings of sentences are ignored whenever literal meanings are plausible, finds evidence that both meanings are processed simultaneously…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Language Processing, Language Research
Yekovich, Frank R.; Walker, Carol H. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Two experiments examined characteristics of text that determine when a repeated noun has a clearly identified referent. Verbs and article modifiers appeared to influence whether a noun is merely a repeated word in a text, or whether it is redundant at the propositional level. (SW)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Learning Processes, Nouns
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