Inner speech and sentence processing

[Susana Lopez Ornat]

Roxana:

Time ago I did work on the types of processing in comprehension tasks of L1. 
I compared experimentally children of different ages with adults of 
different educational levels. It was a reading task. I tested for the 
comprehension of the (Spanish) sentences I used. Those were sentences with 
simple contents but with one embedded sentence inside a main one. They were 
presented in an attractive colourful poster form. Written. The subjects 
could keep seing them for as long as desired. I did find very clear 
differential comprehension results. Part of the sample "solved" the problem 
by *speaking out loud*. That is the bit (I think) that interests you. This 
is all informed in:

 Susana López Ornat (1987)Automatización y control de la comprensión del 
lenguaje .En: (Ed)M.Yela: Estudios sobre inteligencia y lenguaje. Madrid, 
Pirámide 172-200. ISBN:84-368-0365-5

Also,

those results rose in me the questioning about "inner language". That had 
been "externalised" by some of the subjects in the sample: intermediate 
language development children but ALSO intermediate culture adults. This 
lead me to prepare a paper, which is only theoretical, about the subject. It 
is:

S.López Ornat (1991 b)El lenguaje en la mente. En: (Eds) M.M.Serrano & M. 
Siguán(Eds): Comunicación y Lenguaje, Vol VI, En: (Eds) J.Mayor + J.L. 
Pinillos: Tratado de psicología general; Madrid, Alhambra Universidad. 
443-462.

Good luck

Susana López Ornat


Dpto Psicología Básica II
Facultad de Psicología
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Madrid 28223
www.ucm.es/info/equial






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roxana" <mboteza1 at gmail.com>
To: "Info-CHILDES" <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: Inner speech and sentence processing


>
> Hi Professor MacWhinney,
>
> Thank you so much for your suggestions. I have read the book that you
> have mentioned - "Inner Speech - L2." There is one thing that I wanted
> to add, since it was not explicit in my initial message - I am
> interested in finding research studies (if there are any out there)
> looking at the role of inner speech in the processing of written (not
> spoken) sentences or discourse. My sense is that while inner speech
> would no doubt interfere with the processing of spoken language, it
> might facilitate the processing of written language, especially when
> it comes to the processing of ambiguous sentences in either L1 or L2.
> I don't know if there have been any studies done in this regard. I was
> not able to find any, but I am still looking.
>
> Roxana
>
>
> > 


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