Listmates,
  I came across a way of displaying text graphically to show the reader the chunks of language.  The original, from a Latin teaching website,  http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/accrdrs.html , has one version with extensive grammar mark ups and another with just the chunks, separated vertically on the page. A middle type in English follows:
   
  The boy, 
          crouched 
               on his nail keg 
                    at the back 
                       of the crowded room,
  knew 
          he smelled cheese, 
          and more: 
  from where he sat 
       he 
       could see 
            the ranked shelves 
                  close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes 
                                                                                     of tin cans
                        whose labels his stomach read,
                              not from the lettering 
                                      which meant nothing to his mind
                             but from the scarlet devils and the silver curve of fish--
     this,
          the cheese which he knew he smelled
          and the hermetic meat 
                    which his intestines believed he smelled
          coming in intermittent gusts 
                     momentary and brief 
           between the other constant one, 
                      the smell and sense 
                                just a little of fear 
                                       because mostly of despair and grief,
          the old fierce pull of blood.
   
  The purpose of such a presentation is to make syntax clearer to the reader to improve comprehension.  Has anyone on the list used such a presentation method?  Is anyone aware of any research on it?  Any thoughts?
   
  Scott Woods
   



       
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