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This was particularly clear in his attempts at translating more complex sentences.
Complex sentences : acquisition of syntactic connectives and the semantic relations they encode.
Non-shared structures are typical of longer and more complex sentences.
Thus, the participants were consistent in the ways they constructed two distinct types of complex sentences on a graphic symbol display.
Complex sentences often serve to convey content that is cognitively, as well as linguistically, more advanced.
Be a miser with compound and complex sentences and a spendthrift with simple sentences.
It is reflected in the use of short and grammatically less complex sentences and of diminutives and endearments with repetition.
However, they also had significantly more utterances in their samples, and thus more opportunities for the use of complex sentences.
For example, the fact that eighteenth-century novels used complex sentences does not mean that eighteenth-century grammar was complex.
The development of grammars underlying children's interpretation of complex sentences.
The ability to write syntactically complex sentences in turn was not necessarily linked to an ability to write cognitively sophisticated material.
The ability of grammar checkers to detect grammatical errors typically deteriorates in long and syntactically complex sentences.
In complex sentences the same agent and time point terms are often repeated.
The experimental tasks used elicited complex sentences containing relative clauses or questions.
Because these utterances are not grammatically complete, they are not, strictly speaking, complex sentences.
Utterances of this type were considered to be of interest in that they might be primitive forms of, or precursors to, complex sentences.
Categories 14 - 16 are not true complex sentences in that they do not have all the elements required to qualify them as such.
Complex sentences do not always inherit the presuppositions of their parts.
Caregivers produced large numbers of simple sentences and non-clausal sentences throughout the study, and rarely used complex sentences.
One needs it to explain why longer and syntactically more complex sentences cause more problems in production and comprehension.
With respect to the participants' use of complex syntax, typical controls used complex sentences with increased frequency and diversity, as they got older.
Among other tasks, it divides complex sentences into simple ones, it handles sentence mood and voice, and it disambiguates some anaphoric pronouns.
Complex sentences only accounted for 6 % of all utterances heard by children at this age.
Linguistic complexity within narrative discourse entails the ability to formulate grammatically complex sentences that indicate relations between focal events and subordinate, background events.
Figure 3 shows that for both groups, the average proportion of utterances containing complex sentences is less than 10%.
Structurally more complex sentences are harder to understand and, all other things being equal, occur less frequently in spoken or written text corpora.
They used more words, more word types, longer and more grammatically complex sentences, and more advanced syntactic forms.
This section contains longer and more complex sentences than the impression section, and therefore requires a more robust natural language system.
Indeed, at each observation session, complex sentences accounted for only 6 % of the caregivers' total speech, and most occurred while the parents were reading books to their children.
The acquisition of complex sentences : a case study in the role of theory in the study of language development.
To account for this difference, we analyzed the number of complex sentences used in a sample as a proportion of the total number of utterances in that sample.
Finally, group comparisons of the use of constructions that meet some, but not all, requirements of complex sentences yielded similar results as comparisons of true complex sentences.
Developmental differences in visual and auditory processing of complex sentences.
Empty categories and complex sentences : the case of wh- questions.
With this background we will now describe the specific linguistic structures investigated in the present study : the use of both sign space and non-manual markers in simple and complex sentences.
As children move to texts with complex sentences, requiring more than one line, they must learn to maintain rate and expression across breaks at the ends of lines.
A limited ability to hold auditory information in memory would be expected to be most detrimental to the learning of long sequences, such as complex sentences.
The figure shows the number of participants in each group with complex sentences constituting 0 - 40% of their total number of utterances in intervals of 5%.
Although there were no clear differences in measured attainment, a qualitative analysis showed the experimental group to use more complex sentences which took them beyond their interlanguage levels.
Structural principles in the acquisition of complex sentences.
The perception of complex sentences.
The acquisition of complex sentences.
He uses multiple complex sentences, employs unfamiliar, old-fashioned and long forgotten words as well as scientific (e.g. biological) terminology.
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