“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

This study examined the effect of sentence-combining and kernel-identification practice on the syntactic component of sixth graders' reading comprehension, as measured by a cloze instrument developed ...

Language comprehension and sentence processing represent central pillars in cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics, addressing the mechanisms by which humans interpret linguistic input. The ...

"Most people can identify books that have made great impressions on them and, subjectively, changed the way they think," the authors wrote. So they aimed to find out whether that subjective view had ...