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Understanding Complex Sentences
Ngoni Chipere
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Description for Understanding Complex Sentences
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; CFK; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Is native speaker variation in understanding complex sentences due to individual differences in working memory capacity or in syntactic competence? The answer to this question has very important consequences for both theoretical and applied concerns in linguistics and education. This book is distinctive in giving an historical and interdisciplinary perspective on the rule- based and experience-based debate and in supporting an integrated account. In the study reported here, variation was found to be due to differences in syntactic competence and the author argues that sentence comprehension is a learned skill, displaying many of the general characteristics of cognitive skills. The ... Read more
Is native speaker variation in understanding complex sentences due to individual differences in working memory capacity or in syntactic competence? The answer to this question has very important consequences for both theoretical and applied concerns in linguistics and education. This book is distinctive in giving an historical and interdisciplinary perspective on the rule- based and experience-based debate and in supporting an integrated account. In the study reported here, variation was found to be due to differences in syntactic competence and the author argues that sentence comprehension is a learned skill, displaying many of the general characteristics of cognitive skills. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349431021
SKU
V9781349431021
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99-15
About Ngoni Chipere
DR NGONI CHIPERE is Research Fellow in the Department of Education at Reading University, working on child language development. His doctoral research in sentence comprehension was undertaken at Cambridge University and he held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate prior to his current post . He has extensive teaching experience in schools.
Reviews for Understanding Complex Sentences
'There is no doubt that [Chipere's] work...will attract a lot of interest in linguistic and educational circles worldwide...The book will be of interest to psycholinguists, applied linguists and educators.' - Richard Hudson, University College London