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Jurgens, Jeanne Marie – 1971
The three concerns of this study were: (1) the ability of students in grades seven, nine, and eleven to recognize ambiguity in sentences at the lexical, surface structural, and underlying structural levels; (2) the relative difficulty of perceiving ambiguity at each of these levels as determined by differential processing times; and (3) the…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Comparative Analysis, High School Students, Junior High School Students
Peer reviewedMcPherson, Leslie Maggie Perrin – Journal of Child Language, 1991
Various theories of learning for the categories "count noun" and "mass noun" are compared. It is argued that children assign words to these categories on the basis of intuitions arising from perception that are relevant to Macnamara's (1986) definitions of the categories. (39 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, English
