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Download full textDavison, Alice; Lutz, Richard – 1982
A reaction-time experiment measured the time that subjects needed to read and comprehend a series of sentences, the syntactic form of which was systematically varied. The focus was on the effect of syntactic structure on processing time, reflected in reaction time in a neutral context, and the effect of prior context on time needed to process a…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Context Clues, Language Research, Measurement Techniques
