Erica Mcclure
Biographic Data
| ID | 146661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica Mcclure |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcclure |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLURE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The relationship between attributional style and symptoms of depression in youth
Introduction: Humans seem to have an innate need to understand the world. We address this need in part by generating largely automatic explanations for the things we see and the things that happen to us. Explanations for personally relevant events often involve a set of inferences, called attributions, that behave in a trait-like way and are collectively referred to as an attributional style. A person's attributional style is theoretically predic…
Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Mexican and Spanish Press
This article examines both the form and function of codeswitching in the Mexican and the Spanish press. Codeswitching is found to be more complex both syntactically and functionally in the Mexican press than in the Spanish press. The explanation offered for this finding is based on (1) the greater contact that Mexico has had with an anglophone community and (2) the different nature of that contact
Social/Cultural Anthropology
The development of the expression of temporality in the written English narratives of monolingual American and bilingual Mexican pupils
In this study we examine to what extent the linguistic expression of temporal relationships by children receiving long‐term explicit second‐language instruction parallels that previously described for instructed and noninstructed adult learners, and to what extent it resembles that of children who are native speakers. The 80 subjects for the study are divided into four groups by grade level, fourth vs ninth, and native language, English (American…
A Study of the Use of Conjunctions Across Grades and Ethnic Groups
This study examines children's use of conjunctions.Three major issues are addressed: linguistic complexity, developmental differences, and ethnic differences.The subjects for the study--third, sixth, and ninth graders-were of Anglo, Black, or Hispanic ethnicity.They completed sentence fragments ending in the conjunctions and, but, because, and even though.These conjunctions can be paired, and-but and because-even though, where the second member o…
Linguistic Anthropology
The development of the cohesive use of adversative conjunctions in discourse
But and although are both adversative conjunctions. However, but is a coordinator, although a subordinator. It was therefore hypothesized that the choice between them relates to focus. This hypothesis was tested in two studies. The results indicate that most, but not all, adult subjects select but to introduce foreground information and although to introduce background information and also use these conjunctions to determine which proposition in …
Sociocultural variables in children's sequencing of stories∗
To study the possibility that sociocultural differences in story schemata affect reading comprehension, a story unscrambling task was given to a large sample of Black, Hispanic, and Anglo students.While the greatest effects were for grade and reading achievement, there were effects that suggest that the three cultural groups have somewhat different strategies for choosing initial and final sentences and for making narratives internally cohesive.N…
An exploratory study of story structure and age effects on children's ability to sequence stories∗
To investigate the strategies children use in comprehending written stories, third, sixth, and ninth graders were given scrambled six‐sentence stories and asked to reorder them. Three versions of each of six stories were created. All were well‐formed stories, but the first version was the canonical form of the story predicted by story grammar rules; the second version began with a sentence questioning the conclusions of the canonical form, while …
Linguistics
The development of the cohesive use of adversative conjunctions in discourse
But and although are both adversative conjunctions. However, but is a coordinator, although a subordinator. It was therefore hypothesized that the choice between them relates to focus. This hypothesis was tested in two studies. The results indicate that most, but not all, adult subjects select but to introduce foreground information and although to introduce background information and also use these conjunctions to determine which proposition in …
An exploratory study of story structure and age effects on children's ability to sequence stories∗
To investigate the strategies children use in comprehending written stories, third, sixth, and ninth graders were given scrambled six‐sentence stories and asked to reorder them. Three versions of each of six stories were created. All were well‐formed stories, but the first version was the canonical form of the story predicted by story grammar rules; the second version began with a sentence questioning the conclusions of the canonical form, while …
Sociocultural variables in children's sequencing of stories∗
To study the possibility that sociocultural differences in story schemata affect reading comprehension, a story unscrambling task was given to a large sample of Black, Hispanic, and Anglo students.While the greatest effects were for grade and reading achievement, there were effects that suggest that the three cultural groups have somewhat different strategies for choosing initial and final sentences and for making narratives internally cohesive.N…
Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Mexican and Spanish Press
This article examines both the form and function of codeswitching in the Mexican and the Spanish press. Codeswitching is found to be more complex both syntactically and functionally in the Mexican press than in the Spanish press. The explanation offered for this finding is based on (1) the greater contact that Mexico has had with an anglophone community and (2) the different nature of that contact
Linguistics
An exploratory study of story structure and age effects on children's ability to sequence stories∗
To investigate the strategies children use in comprehending written stories, third, sixth, and ninth graders were given scrambled six‐sentence stories and asked to reorder them. Three versions of each of six stories were created. All were well‐formed stories, but the first version was the canonical form of the story predicted by story grammar rules; the second version began with a sentence questioning the conclusions of the canonical form, while …
The development of the cohesive use of adversative conjunctions in discourse
But and although are both adversative conjunctions. However, but is a coordinator, although a subordinator. It was therefore hypothesized that the choice between them relates to focus. This hypothesis was tested in two studies. The results indicate that most, but not all, adult subjects select but to introduce foreground information and although to introduce background information and also use these conjunctions to determine which proposition in …
Sociocultural variables in children's sequencing of stories∗
To study the possibility that sociocultural differences in story schemata affect reading comprehension, a story unscrambling task was given to a large sample of Black, Hispanic, and Anglo students.While the greatest effects were for grade and reading achievement, there were effects that suggest that the three cultural groups have somewhat different strategies for choosing initial and final sentences and for making narratives internally cohesive.N…
A Study of the Use of Conjunctions Across Grades and Ethnic Groups
This study examines children's use of conjunctions.Three major issues are addressed: linguistic complexity, developmental differences, and ethnic differences.The subjects for the study--third, sixth, and ninth graders-were of Anglo, Black, or Hispanic ethnicity.They completed sentence fragments ending in the conjunctions and, but, because, and even though.These conjunctions can be paired, and-but and because-even though, where the second member o…
Linguistic Anthropology
The development of the expression of temporality in the written English narratives of monolingual American and bilingual Mexican pupils
In this study we examine to what extent the linguistic expression of temporal relationships by children receiving long‐term explicit second‐language instruction parallels that previously described for instructed and noninstructed adult learners, and to what extent it resembles that of children who are native speakers. The 80 subjects for the study are divided into four groups by grade level, fourth vs ninth, and native language, English (American…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Mexican and Spanish Press
This article examines both the form and function of codeswitching in the Mexican and the Spanish press. Codeswitching is found to be more complex both syntactically and functionally in the Mexican press than in the Spanish press. The explanation offered for this finding is based on (1) the greater contact that Mexico has had with an anglophone community and (2) the different nature of that contact
The relationship between attributional style and symptoms of depression in youth
Introduction: Humans seem to have an innate need to understand the world. We address this need in part by generating largely automatic explanations for the things we see and the things that happen to us. Explanations for personally relevant events often involve a set of inferences, called attributions, that behave in a trait-like way and are collectively referred to as an attributional style. A person's attributional style is theoretically predic…
Linguistics (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Comprehension (4 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Citation (3 works) · History (3 works)