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Download full textPowers, James E. – 1973
This study examines the effect of expectation (children's judgments as to the probable actor within a given sentence) upon comprehension of passive sentences, the relationship of syntactic comprehension to the paradigmatic-syntagmatic shift in word associations, and the effect of sex on each. Forty first-graders and 40 kindergarteners were blocked…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Comprehension, Expectation, Grade 1
