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sources of contextual constraint upon words in sentences : a replication
R.Sahgal & S. Chandra |
This
paper replicates Aborn, Rubenstein & Sterling's (1959) `The sources
of contextual constraint upon words in sentences.' The object of
the present investigation was to ascertain how far the results of
previous study hold for an Indian sample. The results confirm some
of the findings of the original study. There are, however, some new
findings: (1) differences are not significant in the case of differing
sentence lengths and (2) the interactions of the three variables-word
class, sentence length and position of omission-also affect predictability. "It
is concluded that distribution and grammatical structure of context
are independently sources of constraint on words in sentences and
these sources of contextual constraint are replicable phenomena".
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