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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
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Evans, Ronald V. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Grade 12, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Secondary School Students
Davison, 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
Lagotic, Diana Lynn – 1977
In a study using eye-voice span (EVS) measures to determine the relationship between the types and numbers of transformations in sentences and the predictability of the sentences for readers, sentences with varying types and numbers of transformations were embedded in paragraphs projected onto a screen and read aloud by the subjects, 20 graduate…
Descriptors: Eye Voice Span, Graduate Students, Models, Oral Reading
Little, Peter S. – 1975
This study questions the developmental nature of the ability to understand syntactic structures. An exploration is made of the possibility of learning more about reading comprehension and readability by examining responses made to sentences described by transformational grammarians as structurally ambiguous. A group of fifth grade students were…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Psycholinguistics, Readability, Reading Achievement
Fagan, William T. – 1971
Sentence patterns are often crucial to the degree of understanding a child derives from the printed page, and if he is to fully understand what he reads, he must be able to analyze the written language patterns in which the information is conveyed. This study analyzed selected passages from three grade 4 basal reader series to determine which…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Cloze Procedure, Grade 4, Grade 5