Distinctive Strategies of Older Deaf Students in Comprehending Relativized Sentences in Isolation and in Paragraphs (Syntactic Structures, 10-18 Years, Dominant, Error, Frequency of Use)

Three types of distinctive syntactic structures found in 135 older (10-18 years) deaf students' written relativized sentences were studied to determine their frequency of use. Both the frequency with which deaf students use these strategies and the frequencies of use of each type of strategy were researched. Tested by a multiple-choice format, students chose sentences which they thought were correct, both in isolation and in paragraphs. The three structures were Distinctive Syntactic Structure One (DSS1) in which the relative pronoun is deleted, DSS2 in which the referent is copied and DSS3 in which the relative pronoun heads the incorrect clause.

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Ph.D.

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Dissertation

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Education

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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2014

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• Stuckey, Pam Quesenberry

• Education, Special

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(UMI)AAI8521888

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69007