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Peer reviewedEvans, Ronald V. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Grade 12, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Secondary School Students
Peer reviewedGlaserfeld, Ernst von – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1970
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Computational Linguistics, Grammar, Readability
Peer reviewedRichek, Margaret Ann – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1978
The existence of a "literary dialect" was postulated on several grounds, and specific syntactic structures were hypothesized to be literary or nonliterary. This was tested by obtaining judgments from adults on hypothesized literary and nonliterary structures, each presented at two levels of vocabulary difficulty. (HOD)
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Styles
Peer reviewedSmith, William L. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Presents results from an experiment designed to extend the study of the relationship between the syntactic sophistication of the student and the material being read. (TO)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Language Acquisition, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedRystrom, Richard – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Discusses the effect of sentence structure on the reading acquistition process of beginning readers. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Theory, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedSchwantes, Frederick M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1991
Investigates the degree to which children and adult readers use semantic and syntactic information sources to increase speed of word recognition and to increase speed of determining sentence meaningfulness. Finds three developmental differences in the speed of analyzing these sentences for words/nonwords versus meaningfulness/nonmeaningfulness.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 6, Higher Education
