We are studying comprehension and memory for text in cog psych right now--culminating in Kintsch's models. A student asked me if reading comprehension is the same in all languages, those that have quite different approaches to grammar and written language that might not parse the same way romanized (?) languages do.
Does anyone have any expertise or knowledge on this? I am doubtful that it is the same in languages whose text (writing and therefore reading of it) depends on characters with an infusion of meanings into a single character; or languages in which words depend on compounds of other words, etc. Our language uses letters that together combine into meaningful words which can then become ambiguous in certain situations. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110-2492 [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=36342 or send a blank email to leave-36342-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
