Accession Number:

AD0653263

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE ON THE READING PROGRESS.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

HEBREW UNIV JERUSALEM (ISRAEL)

Personal Author(s):

• Schlesinger,I. M.

Report Date:

1966-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

288.0

Abstract:

It was assumed that the human user of language incorporates a device which operates along the lines of a generative grammar. Accordingly, experiments were conducted on the psychological reality of the syntactical constituent and the behavioral effects of grammatical transformations and of sentence complexity. Other syntactic variables investigated were sentence length and the relative positions of a pronoun and the noun to which it refers. Methodological problems of readability research are also discussed. Author

Descriptors:

• (*READING
• *GRAMMARS)
• LINGUISTICS
• TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMARS
• ACCEPTABILITY
• PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
• SYNTAX
• ISRAEL

Subject Categories:

• Linguistics
• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE