Linguistic Accessibility for People with Intellectual Disabilities: Influence of the Referring Expression on Text Comprehension Catalog # 650| Supervised By: Prof. Orna Peleg, Dr. Sigal Uziel-karl
This work was supported by a grant from Shalem Fund for Development of Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities in the Local Councils in Israel The widely used guidelines for language simplification have been tested empirically only to a limited extent. We examined one language simplification guideline: The preference of full lexical noun phrases over pronouns. This instruction is inconsistent with studies suggesting that in the case of typically ...