caa a22 4500 469053119 CHVBK 20180323132835.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01067513 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01067513 Evidence for a difference in syntactic knowledge between skilled and less skilled adult readers [Elektronische Daten] [L. Cupples, V. Holmes] In two experiments, we investigated the relationship between reading ability and linguistic knowledge in adults. The results from Experiment 1 showed that good comprehenders performed more accurately than average comprehenders in a syntactic-judgment task that required them to decide whether pairs of words served the same grammatical function in sentences. By contrast, the reader groups performed similarly when required to make semantic judgments about whether pairs of words were related in meaning. In Experiment 2, individuals were classified according to comprehension level and reading speed. Good comprehenders again performed more accurately than average comprehenders in the syntactic task but not the semantic task. We argued that differences in form-class knowledge could be associated with corresponding differences in syntacticprocessing efficiency, and thus with variation in reading-comprehension skill generally. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992 Cupples L. School of English and Linguistics, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia aut Holmes V. University of Melbourne, 3052, Parkville, Victoria, Australia aut Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/4(1992-07-01), 249-274 0090-6905 21:4<249 1992 21 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067513 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067513 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cupples L. School of English and Linguistics, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Holmes V. University of Melbourne, 3052, Parkville, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/4(1992-07-01), 249-274 0090-6905 21:4<249 1992 21 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer