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Download full textSnow, David – 1982
The psychological process of segmenting sentences into meaningful units or "chunks" is believed to be an important aspect of text comprehension processes. The most characteristic type of parsing task elicits perceptions of text structure indirectly by asking individuals to make judgments about pause placement in sentences. In four…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Children, Elementary Education
Snow, David P.; And Others – 1982
One hundred twenty-three fifth grade students participated in a study that investigated the role of prosodic cues in children's comprehension of discourse. The subjects, both good and poor readers, read, listened to, or read and listened to a story in one of four modes of visual and auditory presentation: (1) no audio, (2) normally intoned, (3)…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
