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Peer reviewedKemper, Susan; Catlin, Jack – Language and Speech, 1979
Two experiments offer clear support for an interactive view of sentence comprehension; semantic factors do interact with syntactic factors. (RL)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Research
Peer reviewedEdwards, V. K. – Language and Speech, 1978
Establishes a significant correlation between the extent of Creole language interference and performance on a British reading comprehension test. Suggests that Creole affects the efficiency of understanding British English. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialects, Foreign Countries, Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedSpencer, N. J.; Wollman, Neil – Language and Speech, 1980
Reports on research that (1) suggests that phonetically ambiguous pairs (ice cream/I scream) have been used inaccurately to illustrate contextual effects in word segmentation, (2) supports unitary rather than exhaustive processing, and (3) supports the use of the concepts of word frequency and listener expectations instead of top-down, multiple…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Context Clues, Expectation, Language Processing
Peer reviewedPatel, P. G.; Soper, Henry V. – Language and Speech, 1987
Examined written language tasks in 120 Gujarati-speaking children from grades two through four to assess the development of such skills in a syllabo-alphabetic writing system. Results indicated that the syllabo-alphabetic system of Devanagari proved to follow the models of reading acquisition constructed for alphabetic systems. (MM)
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Grade 2
