Accession Number:

ADA171643

Title:

Aspects of Skill in Understanding High-Order Semantic Relations.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept. Sep 83-Jun 85,

Corporate Author:

BBN LABS INC CAMBRIDGE MA

Personal Author(s):

• Warren,Beth

Report Date:

1985-07-25

Pagination or Media Count:

102.0

Abstract:

An essential element in text comprehension is the readers ability to integrate newly encountered propositions with those previously encoded into a coherent model of text meaning. Two bases for propositional integration may be a the network of abstract semantic relations, represented linguistically through conjunctions, verbs and other connectives, and b the semantic content of related propositions, represented in, for example, argument repetition, collocation and semantic entailment. The purpose of this research was to develop an understanding of the nature of expertise in using information from these sources in integrating semantically related propositions and to identify sources of comprehension difficulty for the less skilled reader.

Descriptors:

• *READING
• *COMPREHENSION
• SKILLS
• STUDENTS
• SEMANTICS
• MENTAL ABILITY
• LINGUISTICS
• TEXTBOOKS

Subject Categories:

• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE