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Contextual constraint on deaf and hearing children. Investigating the effect at fourth grade reading level using the Cloze procedure.
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This article is published in American Annals of the Deaf.The article was published on 1970-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Constraint (information theory).read more
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The instantiation of general terms by deaf adolescents/adults.
TL;DR: Two studies were conducted using severely and profoundly deaf high school students to determine their ability to instantiate particular exemplars of general nouns and to use those instantiations as retrieval cues, and the results indicated that the deaf adolescents/adults could instantiate when asked to do so but did not do so spontaneously.
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The Language Performance of the Oral Deaf
TL;DR: This paper described the language impairments of school-aged, deaf children that have been reported for three major modalities: reading, writing, and oral expression, and the classification of children with hearing loss is complicated and must include variables, such as hearing threshold levels, and time of onset of the hearing loss.
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Acquisition of Word Meanings from Context by Deaf Readers.
Beth Davey,Susan King +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviews relevant findings from recent investigations of how individuals use context in deriving word meanings, and details several exemplary studies and draws implications for future inquiry.
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Deaf Readers Reading Beyond the Literal
TL;DR: The author advocates a collaborative "externally guided thinking" approach to instruction that helps deaf literal readers learn to read at the evaluative level.
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Cloze procedure: a new tool for measuring readability
TL;DR: This is the first comprehensive statement of a research method and its theory and findings from three pilot studies and two experiments in which “cloze procedure” results are compared with those of two readability formulas.
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Language and Communication
TL;DR: The authors provide a survey of major issues in the study of language and communication, and show how these are related to questions of practical concern in the learning and teaching of second and foreign languages.
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Uncertainty and structure as psychological concepts
Abstract: It was a misfortune of psychology that it lacked a tradition of dealing with rigorous mathematical theories when psychologists were first attracted by information theory. Applications were made with simple-minded identification of psychological concepts with communication terms, without really paying attention to the meaning of the terms in the respective areas. Quite a few experiments were reported measuring human channel capacity under various experimental conditions without asking the basic question: Does the human being comply with the definition of channel in communication engineering? It is true that, in spite of this carelessness, the bulk of experiments re~ ported demonstrated some systematic results as summarized by G. A. Miller in his concept of The Magical Number Seven. However, these experiments also led to various riddles and confusions as illustrated by Garner in Chapter 2 of this book. And this is undoubtedly the reason that many frustrated psychologists finally gave up information theory as useless to psychology. Still, after the waxing and waning of information theory in psychology, an important recognition remained: Information processing is one of the most significant functions of man. The recognition must eventually revive the application of information theory to psychology as a sheer necessity. Probably " application" is not a proper word. A kind of information theory must be developed which is suitable to describe as complicated aa information processing mechanism as man. A first step toward such a theory was taken by McGill in his paper published in Psychometrika in 1954. What I call a misfortune of psychology is this: Instead of taking McGill's mathematical system (called symmetric uncerlainty analysis by Garner and abbreviated here as SUA) as a conceptual tool iu analyzing psychological problems, the tradition of psychology almost forced us to see it as another statistical testing technique analogous to the analysis of variance. As such, SUA was not so handy as the analysis of variance because of the lack of known distributions, and thus SUA failed to acquire popularity. What we needed then, and need now, is a conceptual means which logically bridges information theory to psychology. So the author could not do better in entirely leaving out of the book the significance testing aspect of SUA. I t must be pointed out that SUA is not a model of human behavior. I t is a system of mathematics (or, I would rather say, of logics) so that it is infallible as far as it goes. This aspect of SUA must be clearly remembered. Information theory, developed in communication engineering, is a normative theory. It is