Sentence structure and the reading process
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Sentence structure and the reading process

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Sentence structure and the reading process

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Yes, you can access Sentence structure and the reading process by I. M. Schlesinger in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
80 
THE 
EFFECT 
OF 
SENTENCE 
LENGTH 
duced 
may 
make 
the 
text 
easier 
to 
read.
11
However, 
it 
may 
be 
that 
this 
factor 
yields 
diminishing 
returns, 
and 
that 
with 
very 
short 
sentences 
and 
long 
texts 
the 
repetitions 
may 
grow 
tiresome. 
The 
intricate 
links 
of 
sentence 
length 
with 
other 
factors 
do 
not 
make 
it 
possible 
to 
state 
any 
hard 
and 
fast 
rules 
of 
good 
writing. 
Our 
experiment 
only 
serves 
to 
show 
that 
when 
it 
is 
isolated 
as 
far 
as 
possible 
from 
other 
factors, 
sentence 
length 
seems 
to 
have 
little 
effect 
on 
readability. 
11
But 
will 
the
total
time 
taken 
to 
read 
it 
be 
less 
than 
that 
taken 
to 
read 
shorter 
version 
containing 
no 
redundancy? 
In 
study 
by 
Miller 
(1958), 
sub-
jects 
were 
required 
to 
learn 
strings 
of 
letters. 
With 
redundant 
strings,
more 
letters 
were 
learned 
but
less
information 
was 
conveyed 
(cf. 
also 
Aborn 
and 
Rubenstein, 
1952; 
Rubenstein 
and 
Aborn, 
1954; 
Hogan, 
1961). 
Experiments 
on 
discrimination 
times 
of 
figures 
with 
redundant 
cues 
are 
also 
relevant 
here 
(Schlesinger 
1965a, 
1965b). 
The 
case 
of 
written 
material 
with 
varying 
degrees 
of 
redundancy 
seems 
to 
merit 
further 
study. 

Table of contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. CONTENTS
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. 2. The Syntactic Constituent as Unit of Decoding
  5. 3. Effects of Grammatical Transformations
  6. 4. The Effect of Sentence Length
  7. 5. The Effect of Syntactic Complexity
  8. 6. Syntactic and Semantic Decoding
  9. 7. Sentences Beginning with Semantically Indeterminate Words
  10. 8. Suggestions for Future Research in Readability
  11. References