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Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Frazier, Lyn – Cognitive Psychology, 2012
What makes a discourse coherent? One potential factor has been discussed in the linguistic literature in terms of a Question under Discussion (QUD). This approach claims that discourse proceeds by continually raising explicit or implicit questions, viewed as sets of alternatives, or competing descriptions of the world. If the interlocutor accepts…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Verbs, Eye Movements
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Cain, Kate; Towse, Andrea S. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: The aim was to identify the source of idiom understanding difficulties in children with specific reading comprehension failure. Method: Two groups (ns = 15) of 9- to 10-year-olds participated. One group had age-appropriate word reading and reading comprehension; the other group had age-appropriate word reading but poor reading…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Figurative Language
Williams, Ray – 1980
Defining lexical familiarizations as devices by means of which an author gives a reader an understanding of newly introduced key lexis, this paper discusses familiarizations in content area textbooks. The various sections of the paper examine the following topics: (1) the forms taken by lexical familiarizations, including use of reader experience,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Definitions, Language Patterns, Literary Devices
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Wilbur, Ronnie B.; Goodhart, Wendy C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Deaf students' recognition of indefinite pronouns and quantifiers was tested using written materials in the form of comic strips. The subjects were 187 profoundly hearing-impaired students, aged 7 to 23 years. Findings showed significant developmental trends for both forms. Quantifiers were found to be significantly more difficult than indefinite…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comics (Publications), Deafness
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Limaye, Mohan; Pompian, Richard – Journal of Business Communication, 1991
Tests whether nominal compounds, the juxtaposition of three or more nouns, retain sufficient semantic information to justify their use for brevity. Finds that respondents often misidentified at least one out of five given headwords. Recommends reminding students of headwords' importance and employing nominal compounds only after their fuller…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Research, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Oller, John W., Jr. – 1975
Five orders of approximation to normal English prose were constructed; 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, and 100th plus. Five cloze tests were then constructed by inserting blanks for deleted words in 5 word segments (5th order), 10 word segments (10th), 25 word segments (25th), 50 word segments (50th), and 100 word segments of five different passages of…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Connected Discourse, Context Clues, Language Ability
1969
Four researchers discussed their studies of oral reading miscues within a round-table format. After each participant's description of the specific concerns and procedures of his study, the following topics were discussed: description and analysis of the miscue, correction strategy, relationship of the child's language to the language of the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Patterns
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Stoefen-Fisher, Jill M. – Journal of Special Education, 1988
Thirty-two hearing-impaired adolescents were assessed on comprehension of three anaphoric forms within conjoined sentences: repeated noun, personal pronouns, and null form. The null form anaphora in a semantically acceptable environment, in which some hearing-impaired students apply a deviant object-subject deletion rule, was significantly more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Difficulty Level, Error Analysis (Language), Hearing Impairments
Chapman, L. John – 1980
Language studies examining the language-thought relationship are important as are those that study other psychological factors concerned with the storage of knowledge. Since language is a product of the social process, it is important to consider that the meaning intended by the sender of the message (author) may not be the meaning decoded by the…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Chiara Levorato, Maria; Nesi, Barbara; Cacciari, Cristina – Brain and Language, 2004
The aim of the present study was to investigate idiom comprehension in school-age Italian children with different reading comprehension skills. According to our hypothesis, the level of a child's text comprehension skills should predict his/her ability to understand idiomatic meanings. Idiom comprehension in fact requires children to go beyond a…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 4, Language Patterns, Figurative Language
Nagy, William; Gentner, Dedre – 1987
A study focused on the nature and effect of constraints on the hypotheses that learners make about the meanings of words. Two experiments were conducted at a large midwestern university: the first, involving 68 undergraduate students divided randomly into two groups, tested taxonomic and durative constraints on nouns, and time of day and cessation…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Definitions, Higher Education
Ku-Mesu, Katalin Egri – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1997
A study applied Relevance Theory to interpretation of texts written in Ghanaian English, particularly those intended for reading by multiple audiences. The nature of such "hybrid" texts is examined and key principles of Relevance Theory are outlined. Relevance is defined in terms of contextual effect and processing effort. Contextual…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Communication Problems, Cultural Relevance, English
Rosenbaum, Harvey; And Others – 1977
The work reported here is part of an ongoing project to develop a language comprehension assessment instrument that: (1) is sensitive enough to pinpoint the particular language phenomena that are causing difficulty or have not been mastered, and (2) is also broad enough in scope to provide a credible and useful description of language proficiency.…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Diagnostic Tests, Language Acquisition
Pike, Ruth – 1977
The relationship between developing oral language skills and reading skills was examined in a study involving 65 fifth and sixth grade children. The subjects' reading ability was tested on the comprehension and accuracy scales of a standardized reading test. The oral language measure was a recall task for verbal material of varying linguistic…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 5, Grade 6, Language Acquisition
Kim, Byong Won – 1982
An analysis of Korean language textbooks currently used by Korean children and of nationally-administered reading comprehension test items for high school graduates reveals a text-oriented reading comprehension approach in South Korea. Text orientation--seeing individual words, phrases, and sentences as semantically unified into a meaningful…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
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