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Intersentential syntactic context effects on comprehension: the role of working memory

Cognitive Brain Research, 2003
The 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.
Vos, S.H., Friederici, A.D.
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Cloze as a Measure of Intersentential Comprehension

Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
CLOZE 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   +2 more
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Comprehension of intersentential pronouns in child German and child Bulgarian

First Language, 2011
This article investigates the acquisition of pronominal resolution as a process instantiated at the syntax–discourse interface. Based on current psycholinguistic proposals concerning the gradual development from a more context-driven towards a linguistically constrained representation of discourse referents, we conducted an experimental study ...
Dagmar Bittner, Milena Kuehnast
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Intersentential Processes in Reading Comprehension

Journal of Reading Behavior, 1980
Mature readers were given cloze tests on two paragraphs of varying difficulty presented in three formats: regular, the paragraph as the author wrote it (with cloze deletions); scrambled, the same paragraph and deletions, but the sentences were presented in scrambled order; and isolated, in which each sentence was read in isolation.
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Cloze and Intersentential Constraint

Journal of Research in Reading, 1984
ABSTRACTThe 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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Concurrent validity of cloze as a measure of intersentential comprehension.

Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
This 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, Kent Layton
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Language Change at the Interfaces

2022
This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse – with a special focus on Germanic and Romance – and their role in language change. The contributions, set within the generative framework, discuss original data and provide new insights into the diachronic ...
Nicholas Catasso   +2 more
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Acquiring intersentential explanatory connections in expository texts

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 1996
A taxonomy of explanatory links connecting sentences in expository texts is presented. It is also shown that there are two types of knowledge, which we have called analytical and empirical knowledge in analogy to the distinction between analytical and empirical sentences, that allow us to find and learn the explanatory connections.
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A Formal Semantics for Plural Quantification, Intersentential Binding and Anaphoric Pronouns as Rigid Designators

Noûs, 2002
It is well known that certain kinds of plural quantification as well as intersentential pronominal cross-reference in natural language cannot be formalizable by the devices of standard first-order logic, i.e., by a formal language containing variables x,y,z,..., ranging over individuals, the quantifiers V and 3, the truth functional connectives and the
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