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Wang, Marilyn D. – J Verb Learning Verb Behav, 1970
Three measures were found to contribute significantly to the prediction of comprehensibility: mean linguistic depth, the number of self-embedded structures in the sentence, and the number of conjoinging transformations in the derivational history of the sentence. (Author/FB)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Psycholinguistics, Sentences

Lempert, Henrietta – Child Development, 1978
A group of 40 preschool children, ranging in age from three to five years, were required to illustrate the meaning of reversible passive sentences in which noun animacy was systematically varied. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Function Words, Nouns, Preschool Children
Schwartz, Deborah; And Others – J Verb Learning Verb Behav, 1970
One theory of linguistic information processing asserts that there is a preliminary incomplete analysis of linguistic information which lets people judge how difficult the information will be to process completely. The present study investigates the reliability and validity of such judgments of comprehensibility and discusses some of their…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deep Structure, Information Theory, Language Styles

Eastlack, Charles L. – 1970
This paper makes observations on verb classification which are considered relevant to the understanding of Swahili syntax. Three different syntactically relevant approaches are discussed: (1) establishing a set of "basic sentence types" and then classifying verbs according to their occurrence or non-occurrence in sentences of these…
Descriptors: Classification, Language Instruction, Language Universals, Morphology (Languages)
Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Frazier, Lyn – 1980
This report describes part of a longer study on sentence comprehension. The long range goal is to identify distinct levels of processing in terms of the types of linguistic and extralinguistic information each level uses. The focus of this part of the study is sentences with filler-gap relations, such as, "This is the girl the teacher wanted to…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Listening Comprehension, Psycholinguistics

Cooper, William E. – Journal of Phonetics, 1976
A sentence-reading procedure was used to study the influence of syntactic structure on the timing of syllables in speech production. The study was designed to test whether syllable lengthening might be sensitive to the distinction between surface and underlying structure. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Deep Structure, Language Research, Language Rhythm
Jarvella, Robert J. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Based on part of a dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. Revised version of a paper given at the 80th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Houston, Texas, November 1970. (VM)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Connected Discourse, Listening, Memory
Rodd, Linda J.; Braine, Martin D. S. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Revised version of an M.A. thesis submitted at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1970, by Linda J. Rodd. (VM)
Descriptors: Children, Deep Structure, Experiments, Grammar

Ehri, Linnea C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Fifth graders were asked to learn 32 syntactically varied semantically unrelated sentences containing combinations of agentive, objective, and instrumental case relations. Results were discussed in terms of ways to store sentences. (ST)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Elementary School Students, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Heringer, Hans-Jurgen – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1970
Descriptors: Deep Structure, German, Grammar, Kernel Sentences
Buyssens, Eric – Linguistique, 1974
An examination of various linguists' definitions of parataxis, asyndeton, and juxtaposition shows that the concepts are often varying and lack precision. The author offers new definitions which distinguish three specific cases. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Definitions, Function Words, Grammar
Borgh, Enola – 1972
Modern transformational grammars can be effective tools for writing, for they offer hypotheses and generalizations about English sentences which can be used in an infinite number of linguistic contexts. One writing skill which transformational grammars can help students achieve is the ability to choose between synonymous expressions. Some…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Evaluation Criteria, Rhetoric, Sentences
Grosu, Alexander; Lee, Gregory – 1971
This volume of working papers includes two papers concerned with syntactic analysis in English. The first paper deals with a number of problems that arise in conjunction with the necessary, allowed, or disallowed coreferentiality of a complement sentence subject with some noun-phrase in a higher sentence. The author seeks to prove that the…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Tyler, Lorraine; Marslen-Wilson, William – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
A presentation of an experiment testing the claim that on-line syntactic processing is autonomous and not affected by semantic content. Results suggested that before the clause boundary is reached, syntactic decisions can be influenced by prior semantic context. An appendix containing numerous examples of clauses and probe words is included. (AMH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Language Processing, Language Research

Gasparov, B. M. – Linguistics, 1974
The problem of determining the grammatical correctness, as opposed to semantic correctness, of the output of a generative system is discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Semantics