caa a22 4500 386335273 CHVBK 20180307111731.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0142716400009012 doi S0142716400009012 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0142716400009012 Syntactic comprehension in young poor readers [Elektronische Daten] Children with specific reading disability fail to understand some complex spoken sentences as well as good readers. This investigation sought to identify the source of poor readers' comprehension difficulties. Second-grade good and poor readers were tested on spoken sentences with restrictive relative clauses in two experiments designed to minimize demands on working memory. The methodological innovations resulted in a high level of performance by both reader groups, demonstrating knowledge of relative clause structure. The poor readers' performance closely paralleled that of the good readers both in pattern of errors and in awareness of the pragmatic aspects of relative clauses. The findings suggest that limitations in processing account for comprehension difficulties displayed by some poor readers in previous investigations. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Smith Suzanne T. Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital Macaruso Paul University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories Shankweiler Donald University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories Crain Stephen University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press 10/4(1989-12), 429-454 0142-7164 10:4<429 1989 10 APS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400009012 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400009012 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Smith Suzanne T. Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Macaruso Paul University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shankweiler Donald University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crain Stephen University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press 10/4(1989-12), 429-454 0142-7164 10:4<429 1989 10 APS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge