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Direct linkShannon Hall-Mills; Carla Wood – Topics in Language Disorders, 2023
The primary objective of this study was to compare the syntactic complexity of informational texts produced by fifth-grade students (a) with and without language impairment and (b) with and without native English-speaking proficiency on a curriculum-based reading and writing task. Expository writing samples produced by 114 children enrolled in the…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Syntax, Writing (Composition)
Download full textNie, Bruce; Deacon, Hélène; Fyshe, Alona; Epp, Carrie Demmans – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
A child's ability to understand text (reading comprehension) can greatly impact both their ability to learn in the classroom and their future contributions to society. Reading comprehension draws on oral language; behavioural measures of knowledge at the word and sentence levels have been shown to be related to children's reading comprehension. In…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Word Order, Sentence Structure, Grade 3
Ayelet Sasson; Rachel Schiff; Barak Zluf – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This study assessed the effect of adjectives and noun premodifiers on L2 noun phrase comprehension and error types among English Language Learners. We also examined the correlation between L2 noun phrase comprehension and L2 reading comprehension, as well as the contribution of L2 noun phrase comprehension to L2 reading comprehension. One hundred…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Grade 11
Jagaiah, Thilagha; Olinghouse, Natalie G.; Kearns, Devin M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Syntactic complexity has been recognized as an important construct in writing research, and for the past five decades, many syntactic complexity measures (SCMs) have been examined in numerous studies. This systematic review is the first study of its kind to synthesize 36 studies spanning from 1970 to 2019 by identifying and cataloging all SCMs…
Descriptors: Syntax, Difficulty Level, Writing Evaluation, Literary Genres
Sung, Jee Eun; Choi, Sujin; Eom, Bora; Yoo, Jae Keun; Jeong, Jee Hyang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: In this study, we sought to identify critical linguistic markers that can differentiate sentence processing of individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from the sentence processing of normal-aging populations by manipulating sentences' linguistic complexity. We investigated whether passive sentences, as linguistically complex…
Descriptors: Syntax, Difficulty Level, Dementia, Aging (Individuals)
Çeltek, Aytaç – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
In Turkish, null and overt arguments do not show the same distributional properties at discourse level. There are discourse-pragmatic factors affecting this distribution (Kerslake, 1987; Ruhi, 1996; Turan, 1995; Çeltek & Oktar, 2014; Çeltek Kaili, 2017). Previous studies suggest that the acquisition of argument realization system in second…
Descriptors: Greek, Turkish, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
Nese, Joseph F. T.; Alonzo, Julie; Biancarosa, Gina; Kamata, Akihito; Kahn, Joshua – Grantee Submission, 2017
Text complexity has received increased attention due to the CCSS, which call for students to comprehend increasingly more complex texts as they progress through grades. Quantitative text complexity (or readability) indices are based on text attributes (e.g., sentence lengths, and lexical, syntactic, & semantic difficulty), quantified by…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Readability, Sentence Structure
Garcia, Rowena; Roeser, Jens; Höhle, Barbara – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2019
It is a common finding across languages that young children have problems in understanding patient-initial sentences. We used Tagalog, a verb-initial language with a reliable voice-marking system and highly frequent patient voice constructions, to test the predictions of several accounts that have been proposed to explain this difficulty: the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Tagalog, Cues, Morphology (Languages)
Poulsen, Mads; Gravgaard, Amalie K. D. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between syntactic comprehension at the sentence level and text-level comprehension. The study isolated the specific contribution of syntax by asking whether sentence comprehension efficiency of difficult syntactic constructions explained variance in text comprehension after controlling for sentence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Peer reviewedRichek, Margaret Ann – Reading Research Quarterly, 1976
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Holmes, V.M.; Forster, K.I. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Difficulty Level, Information Processing, Perception
Blount, Harold Parker – 1971
Three different experiments were conducted to examine several variables that influence the recall of prose. In Experiment I a study was made of the influence of differing imagery level nouns as the subject and object of the preposition of a sentence; it also provided a further test of the conceptual peg model, i.e., the concrete-concrete-subject…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Imagery, Language Patterns, Prose
Carpenter, Patricia A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported in part by U.S. Public Health Service, National Institute of Mental Health. (DD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedRichek, Margaret Ann – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
Investigates how performance on syntactic structures is affected by the complexity of the surrounding sentence. To investigate possible relationships, two classifications of syntactic structures were tested in both simple and complex sentences. (RC)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students, Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension
Hermon, Gabriella – 1979
This paper analyzes the order in which subject, verb, and quote come in sentences in the children's stories about Babar by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff. It suggests that different constructions have different functions that are exploited by the author for communicative purposes. The paper adds that the order in which these elements appear affects…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
