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Cloze as a Measure of Intersentential Comprehension
Reading Research Quarterly, 1982CLOZE TESTS ARE FREQUENTLY USED to measure reading comprehension. Although cloze is generally accepted as a global measure of reading comprehension, and cloze test results are reportedly well correlated with those of traditional comprehension tests, the question of which specific components of reading comprehension are measured by cloze tests has not ...
Timothy Shanahan
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Intersentential syntactic context effects on comprehension: the role of working memory
Cognitive Brain Research, 2003The study investigated the influence of a syntactically biasing context sentence on the processing of syntactically complex object-first relative clauses and even more complex object-first complement clauses in readers with individual differences in working memory.
Angela D. Friederici
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Concurrent validity of cloze as a measure of intersentential comprehension.
Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990This study examines the relationships of cloze to across-sentence information integration by measuring the degree of intersentential comprehension of Ss who had just completed a cloze test over natural (unscrambled ...
Michael C Mckenna
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A pragmatics-based approach to understanding intersentential ellipsis [PDF]
Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1985 Intersentential elliptical utterances occur frequently in information-seeking dialogues. This paper presents a pragmatics-based framework for interpreting such utterances, including identification of the speaker's discourse goal in employing the fragment. We claim that the advantage of this approach is its reliance upon pragmatic information, including
Sandra Carberry
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Cloze and Intersentential Constraint
Journal of Research in Reading, 1984ABSTRACTThe sensitivity of cloze items to constraint outside the sentence was examined using a sample of 70 students from a Further Education College. Responses to cloze items in natural passages were superior to identical items in passages where the sentence order had been randomized in an attempt to destroy intersentential constraint.
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Intersentential Connections in Journalistic Text
Linguistic & Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, LLSEE, 1983exaly +2 more sources