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Peer reviewedDelis, Dean; Slater, Anne Saxon – Cognition, 1977
The theory that reduction transformations provide speakers with the option of deleting redundant information when communicating to a topic-cognizant audience is supported. In the experiment, college physiology students were provided with deep structure proximal sentences (base propositions), and asked to communicate them to different audiences,…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Deep Structure, Higher Education, Linguistic Theory
Direct linkHsiao, Franny; Gibson, Edward – Cognition, 2003
This paper reports results from a self-paced reading study in Chinese that demonstrates that object-extracted relative clause structures are less complex than corresponding subject-extracted structures. These results contrast with results from processing other Subject-Verb-Object languages like English, in which object-extracted structures are…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Word Order, Morphology (Languages), Generative Grammar
