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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
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
Bousquet, Robert J. – 1980
Many factors influence the comprehension of a linguistic act by a listener or reader. Some, such as maturity, background, and interests of the decoder are nonlinguistic; others, such as the vocabulary and complexity of the morphological and syntactical structures are linguistic in nature. A review of the literature reveals that while studies have…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deep Structure, Difficulty Level, Linguistics
Halamandaris, Pandelis G. – 1968
On the basis of the grammatical theory developed by Noam Chomsky, it is reasonable to presume that the different parts of a sentence may not all be understood with equal facility and speed. One purpose of this study was to determine whether some of the grammatical relations within a sentence were understood more readily than others. Sentences of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Deep Structure, Difficulty Level