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O'Donnell, Roy C. – 1974
This test was designed to measure awareness of the relationship existing between sentences that are similar in specific semantic content but different in syntactic structure. The test consists of twenty-five items of the three-option multiple-response type, with the stem of each item being a "pattern" sentence to be matched with one of the three…
Descriptors: Relationship, Semantics, Sentence Structure, Sentences
O'Donnell, Roy C. – 1975
The Agnate Sentences Test was designed to measure awareness of the relationship between sentences that are similar in semantic content but different in syntactic structure. In this study, developmental differences in the ability to decode written syntax are observed by means of this test which was administered to 63 4th graders, 65 8th graders,…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Semantics
Braun, Carl; Klassen, Bernard – 1970
A study designed to investigate to what extent ethno-linguistic background affects speech patterns and syntactic flexibility of grades one, four and six children from monolingual, bilingual-French and bilingual-German rural communities. A total of 216 randomly selected subjects were used; they were selected from nine rural Manitoba schools, and…
Descriptors: Age, Bilingualism, Child Language, Classification