The present study demonstrated that students with mild intellectual disabilities are capable of constructing meaning from written text by guided social interaction. Participants were 40 adolescents in special schools divided into two intervention conditions: reciprocal teaching (RT) and inference teaching (IT). In RT the students practiced four…

Background: Children with language impairments have difficulty in reporting verbal inferences, but it is unclear whether the source of this problem lies in limitations of language comprehension, an inability to access world knowledge, or the integration of information in discourse. Children with pragmatic language impairments (CwPLI) are often…

Research supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the University of Texas at Austin. (DD)

The purpose of the present research was to investigate whether people in fact encode general terms on the basis of the properties of particular instances. (Author)

The investigation described here was carried out in the hope that some kind of classification of children's early written English could be found which would help them to learn sentence skills more effeciently. (Author/RK)

This study was designed to test the following hypothesis in Alberta: the higher the socio-economic status the more complex the use of language. (Editor)

This paper reports findings from an ongoing program of research aimed at the discovery of signals and the formation of rules relevant to the organization of two-person, face-to-face conversations. (Author)

School pupils (mean age 17 years) were classified as convergers or divergers on the basis of their performance on the AH5 Intelligence Test and the Uses of Objects test. They were presented with a set of concrete and abstract sentences, followed immediately by a forced-choice recognition test. Considered the interaction between…

The question asked in the present study is whether individuals record their experiences with sentences in a manner that provides information about the number of times the same basic meaning or idea has been expressed. (Author)

Subjects received recognition, meaning, or truth-value instructions in a Bransford and Franks paradigm. The results of two trials indicated that subjects understood and performed very well under recognition and truth-value instructions when constraints on memory were removed. (Editor/RK)

The Bransfrod and Franks procedure of 1971 for studying the abstraction of linguistic ideas was employed in a sentence memory task but with a recall test substituted for the usual recognition test. (Editor)

This paper presents a theoretical account of certain aspects of sentence comprehension, particulary the processes involved in deciding if a sentence is true or false. (Editor)

The central focus of the present study was to determine whether subjects retain any information about the specific nature - the specific lexical content - of the individual sentences heard during acquisition. (Author)

The aim of the present experiment was to determine the locus of the set effect of sentence context on the intelligibility of a member word. (Author)

Investigation is concerned with the nature of the memory representation that serves as a basis for frequency judgments. (Author)