How does syntactic and semantic knowledge contribute to our understanding of a piece of text
Date Submitted: 08/20/2004 00:36:40
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 9 pages (2450 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 9 pages (2450 words)
How does syntactic and semantic knowledge contribute to our understanding of a piece of text
The Little Oxford dictionary (1986) defines syntactic knowledge as "the grammatical arrangement of words/rules or analysis of this", while semantic knowledge is described as knowledge "of the meaning in language."
But what is comprehension? Anderson claims "comprehension involves a perceptual stage, followed by a parsing stage, followed by a utilisation stage." Parsing is the process by which the words in …
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