The Impact of the Comma on Sentence Processing / Beverly Colwell Adams and Melissa M. Wade.

A study investigated whether children and adolescents use commas and the principle of Late Closure to guide sentence parsing decisions as adults do in processing syntactically ambiguous sentences. The study consisted of three experiments, conducted similarly but with different subject groups: 24 uni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Adams, Beverly Colwell Wade, Melissa M. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1996.
Subjects:	Adolescents. Adults. Age Differences. Ambiguity. Children. College Students. Grade 4. Grade 6. Grammar. Higher Education. Intermediate Grades. Language Processing. Punctuation. Reading Comprehension. Sentence Structure. Syntax. Parsing Ambiguity Detection Reports, Evaluative. Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Genre:	Reports, Evaluative. Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Physical Description:	14 pages
Format:	Microfilm Book

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