Measurement of Syntactic Complexity Relative to Linguistic Context. Technical Report No. 255 [electronic resource] / Alice Davison and Richard Lutz.

A reaction-time experiment measured the time that subjects needed to read and comprehend a series of sentences, the syntactic form of which was systematically varied. The focus was on the effect of syntactic structure on processing time, reflected in reaction time in a neutral context, and the effec...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Davison, Alice
Corporate Authors:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Other Authors:	Lutz, Richard
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1982.
Subjects:	Comprehension. Context Clues. Language Research. Measurement Techniques. Reaction Time. Reading Research. Sentence Structure. Syntax. Transformational Generative Grammar. Undergraduate Students.