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Beaumont, Clare – Journal of Research in Reading, 1982
Concludes that children were better able to comprehend sentences containing pronouns that functioned as objects in relative clauses, but that in clauses where the pronoun functioned as subject, its presence or absence was not important. (FL)
Descriptors: Primary Education, Pronouns, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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Richek, Margaret Ann – Reading Research Quarterly, 1976
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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Kemper, Susan; Catlin, Jack – Language and Speech, 1979
Two experiments offer clear support for an interactive view of sentence comprehension; semantic factors do interact with syntactic factors. (RL)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Research
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Dalgleish, B. W. J.; Enkelmann, S. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
The present experiment with retarded and normal readers was designed to test comprehension across major segmental boundaries, an aspect of syntax raised by generative grammars, and to relate the comprehension problem to other correlates of reading retardation by choosing a problem in which ordering strategies may be adopted. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Children, Generative Grammar, Pronouns, Reading Comprehension
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
Hart, Margaret Murlee Shaw – 1971
In order to discern whether sixth grade students with differing levels of reading achievement (as measured by the Paragraph Meaning subtest of the Stanford Achievement Test) also differed in the level of syntactic maturity evidenced in their response to a sentence combining task, a syntactic structure inventory of eight sentence-combining stimulus…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Lesgold, Alan M. – 1973
In this report data are presented that challenge the difficulty ordering for anaphoric syntax (e. g., pronouns) proposed by Bormuth, Manning, Carr, and Pearson in 1970. It is suggested that any such difficulty ordering resulting from tests of the form proposed by Bormuth (1970) will have uncontrolled variability due to semantic factors that have…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Education, Language Research, Linguistics
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
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Evans, Ronald V. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Grade 12, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Secondary School Students
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Glaserfeld, Ernst von – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1970
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Computational Linguistics, Grammar, Readability
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O'Shea, Lawrence J.; Sindelar, Paul T. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1983
Indicates that segmenting sentences into meaningful units improves reading comprehension through simplifying the syntax of complex sentences and cueing the reader as to the relationship among intrasentence phrases. (AEA)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate
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Weaver, Phyllis A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1979
A study was conducted to investigate the possibility of improving reading comprehension by training sentence organization skills using a sentence anagram task and word-grouping strategy. Results indicated that training significantly improved sentence anagram performance and transferred to reading comprehension performance. (MKM)
Descriptors: Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
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Richek, 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
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Barnitz, John G. – Language Arts, 1979
Reviews several syntactic studies of children's reading comprehension and suggests teaching methods for promoting sentence comprehension in context. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Literature Reviews, Reading Comprehension
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Nilagupta, Sirirat – Journal of Reading, 1977
Reports on an investigation of the effect of syntax on the comprehension of written English by Thai college students who have studied English as a foreign language. (HOD)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Readability, Reading Comprehension
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