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Christine S. Schipke; Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz; Flavia Adani – Language Learning and Development, 2024
This study investigates the interpretation of object-initial sentences in German-speaking children. We addressed the following questions: (1) Which morphosyntactic cues do children deploy to process object-initial sentences? (2) Which executive function (EF) abilities support them during this task? This study examined the effect of case and number…
Descriptors: German, Reading Processes, Sentence Structure, Executive Function
Tong, Xiuhong; Kwan, Joyce Lok Yin; Xiuli Tong, Shelley; Deacon, S. Hélène – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
Syntax, or sentence structure, plays a role in reading comprehension, but how students draw on their awareness of syntax in their reading remains unclear; the mechanism is even more ambiguous in bilingual students. In this study, we evaluated the direct and indirect contributions of syntactic awareness on first-language Chinese and second-language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Chinese, English (Second Language)
Jeong, Hyeyun; Kim, Hojung – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
This study examines the learning patterns of intermediate and advanced Korean learners in the acquisition of causative expressions according to their proficiency and the causative sentence type. We measured their grammatical knowledge using three types of grammaticality judgment tasks (GJTs) and self-paced reading tasks (SPRTs) differing in time…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sentence Structure
Yunchuan Chen; Tingting Huan – Second Language Research, 2024
Quantifier-Negation sentences allow an inverse scope reading in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This difference can be attributed to the underlying syntactic difference: the negation word can be raised at Logical Form in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This study investigated whether Chinese-dominant Tibetan heritage speakers know such difference. We…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Sino Tibetan Languages, Native Language, Reading Processes
Angele, Bernhard; Laishley, Abby E.; Rayner, Keith; Liversedge, Simon P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
In a previous gaze-contingent boundary experiment, Angele and Rayner (2013) found that readers are likely to skip a word that appears to be the definite article "the" even when syntactic constraints do not allow for articles to occur in that position. In the present study, we investigated whether the word frequency of the preview of a…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading Processes, Word Recognition, Word Frequency
Chang, Xin; Wang, Pei – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
To investigate the influence of L2 proficiency and syntactic similarity on English passive sentence processing, the present ERP study asked 40 late Chinese-English bilinguals (27 females and 13 males, mean age = 23.88) with high or intermediate L2 proficiency to read the sentences carefully and to indicate for each sentence whether or not it was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Accuracy, Reaction Time
Green, Matthew J.; Mitchell, Don C. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Using evidence from eye-tracking studies, Van Gompel, Pickering, Pearson, and Liversedge (2005) have argued against currently implemented constraint-based models of syntactic ambiguity resolution. The case against these competition models is based on a mismatch between reported patterns of reading data and the putative predictions of the models.…
Descriptors: Syntax, Predictor Variables, Reading Processes, Sentence Structure
Frase, Lawrence T.; Washington, Ernest D. – 1970
The perception of proximal relationships (directly stated in a sentence) or remote relationships (requiring sentences to be combined) in reading materials was studied to see whether children have the same difficulties in detecting the relationships as do adults. The subjects were 22 children from grades 2, 4, and 5 who were given stories to read…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Perception, Reading Comprehension

Richek, 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

McKinnon, Richard; Osterhout, Lee – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Focuses on the brain's response to one aspect of syntactic processing--the processing of sentences that violate constraints on constituent movement. Findings indicate that movement constraints can be applied during the earliest stages of sentence processing, perhaps in conjunction with the creation of phrase structure. (46 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Graduate Students, Grammar

Gilboy, Elizabeth; And Others – Cognition, 1995
Three studies investigated Spanish and English readers' interpretations of sentences with complex noun phrases (NPs). In contrast to earlier findings, results provided evidence for cross-language universality of the late closure parsing principle. Results suggest that late closure is not language-specific but specific to only certain classes of…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, English, Language Patterns, Nouns
Winter, Katherine K. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine whether awareness of context provides any of the following: information about letters, words, or phrases which reduces the amount of time needed to identify those items during reading; information leading to more accurate hypothesis-formation; more accurate identification of a largest manageable unit; and…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Clues, Reading, Reading Comprehension
Starling, Betty R. – 1979
A review of research reveals that, although several reading researchers recognize the significance of grammatical complexity beyond the sentence in reading comprehension, little research exists in this area of grammatical interrelationships among sentences. The first step toward an understanding of grammatical complexity beyond the sentence is for…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Literature Reviews, Readability
Walmsley, Sean A. – 1977
To determine whether poor readers employ less efficient strategies in processing logical connectives than do good readers, 34 ninth grade students participated in a study. Half of the students were good readers and half were poor readers. An acquisition list consisting of 18 target sentences and 6 fillers was constructed. A list of 42 recognition…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 9, Performance Factors, Reading Comprehension

Schwantes, 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
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